Unit 1
Secret organization of colonial patriots who organized protests
Sons of Liberty
First U.S. government document; created weak central government
Articles of Confederation
Belief that U.S. should expand across North America
Manifest Destiny
Required Northern states to return escaped enslaved people to the South
Fugitive Slave Act
Compromise that stated Kansas would enter the Union as a free state, and Nebraska would vote for whether or not they wanted to allow slavery.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Conflict between Britain and France over North American territory
French and Indian War
Name two weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
No national court system
No national army
Weak executive branch
No unified currency
Unable to collect taxes
Forced relocation of Cherokee Nation to Oklahoma
Trail of Tears
Southern states' withdrawal from the Union was called...
Secession
System where farmers worked land for a share of crops
Sharecropping
Ended Revolutionary War; Britain recognized American independence
Essays promoting ratification of Constitution
Federalist Papers
Conflict between U.S. and Mexico resulting in Mexican territory acquisition
Mexican American War
Provide one example of how the voting rights of African American men were still limited by action of state governments even after the 15th Amendment...
Black Codes
Literacy Tests
Jim Crow Laws
1857 Supreme Court case declaring African Americans weren't citizens
Dredd Scott v Sanford
or
Dred Scott Decision
Punitive laws passed after the Boston Tea Party, including:
Closing Boston Harbor
Restricting Massachusetts government
Allowing troops to be quartered in homes
Moving trials to Britain
Intolerable Acts
Name a major cause for the War of 1812
Embargo Act of 1807
British impressment of sailors
Series of bills addressing slavery in territories gained from Mexican-American War
Compromise of 1850
Government agency helping formerly enslaved people
Freedmen's Bureau
Confederate strategy to gain European support through cotton trade
King Cotton Diplomacy
Economic policy where colonies exist to benefit the mother country through trade restrictions and resource extraction
Mercantilism
A rebellion that highlighted the weakness of the Articles of Confederation
Shay's Rebellion
Allowing voters in territories to decide on slavery
Popular Sovereignty
1896 case upholding "separate but equal" doctrine
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Why was the Bill of Rights added to the Constitution
To convince the anti-federalists to ratify the Constitution