Period 2
What historians describe as a revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s.
First Great Awakening
The British Crown policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, especially trade laws, as long as British colonies remained loyal to the government of and contributed to the economic growth of their parent country, England, in the 18th century.
Salutary Neglect
Enacted by the United States Congress against Great Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars. Was imposed in response to the violations of the United States neutrality, in which American merchantmen and their cargo were seized as contraband of war by the belligerent European navies.
Embargo Act (1807)
The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
Manifest Destiny
Was a group of political dissidents that formed in the North American British colonies during the early days of the American Revolution.
Daughters of Liberty
Close more trade loopholes
Increase the list of 'goods and commodities'
Increase the duties (taxes) on the goods
Navigation Acts
A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. The four acts were the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act.
Intolerable Acts
Born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, c. February 1817 – February 20, 1895, was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts
Frederick Douglass
Begins On April 25, 1846, Mexican cavalry attacked a group of U.S. soldiers in the disputed zone under the command of General Zachary Taylor.
Mexican American War
Was an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, she escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the underground railroad.
Harriet Tubman
An armed rebellion held by Virginia settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677. It was led by Nathaniel Bacon against Colonial Governor William Berkeley.
Bacon's Rebellion
An influential 18th-century writer of essays and pamphlets. Among them were "The Age of Reason," regarding the place of religion in society; "Rights of Man," a piece defending the French Revolution; and "Common Sense," which was published during the American Revolution.
Thomas Paine
Was the first widespread and durable financial crisis in the United States that slowed westward expansion in the Cotton Belt and was followed by a general collapse of the American economy that persisted through 1821.
Panic of 1819
Was the 11th president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849. He previously was the 13th speaker of the House of Representatives.
James Polk
A term used in politics for someone who favors war or continuing to escalate an existing conflict as opposed to other solutions.
“War hawks”
An Anglican cleric and evangelist who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement. Born in Gloucester, he matriculated at Pembroke College at the University of Oxford in 1732.
George Whitefield
Set a minimum purchase amount of one section (640 acres) for $640, $1 per acre. The survey began on land north of the Ohio River, land that came from Virginia's cession.
Land Ordinance of 1765
Satisfied neither house, nor efforts to strengthen it failed. Passed by a divided session on 1 May 1810, it marked the virtual abandonment of the Republicans.
Macon’s Bill No. 2 (1810)
After the Civil War, the US banking system grew rapidly and seemed to be set on solid ground. But the country was hit by many banking crises.
Panic of 1873
Four laws passed by the United States Congress in 1798 and signed into law by President John Adams, ostensibly designed to protect the United States from citizens of enemy powers during the turmoil following the French Revolution and to stop seditious factions from weakening the government of the new republic.
Alien and Sedition Acts
The economic theory that trades generate wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism.
Mercantilism
Adopted by Congress on July 5th, 1775, to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared.
Olive Branch Petition
Was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that defined the scope of the U.S. Congress's legislative power and how it relates to the powers of American state legislatures.
McCulloch v. Maryland
Has been called one of the most important pieces of Legislation in the history of the United States. The act was signed into law by Abraham Lincoln after the southern states seceded.
Homestead Act
Granted all Indians, American citizens, and Canadian subjects the perpetual right to freely travel between the United States and Canada, then a British territory, for purposes travel or trade.
Jay Treaty