This ended what?
Ended the French & Indian War.
What was the Treaty of Paris of 1763?
Passed to prevent conflict between colonists and Native Americans by creating a buffer zone; set the Appalachian Mtsn. as the western boundary for the colonies.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
Angry farmers lashed out when their land was taken because they couldn't pay their debts.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
Upheld the Supreme Court case which ruled that segregation was legal as long as African Americans had access to facilities equal to whites.
What was Plessy v Ferguson?
The laws passed in the South during Reconstruction to limit the opportunities for African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
This ended the American Revolution.
What was the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
Created a single Northwest Territory ou of lands north of the Ohio River and east of Mississippi.
What was the Northwest Ordinance?
The rebellion that started because Hamilton proposed a bunch of taxes to lower the national debt. Farmers in western Pennsylvania rioted and burned down the tax collector's buildings.
What was the Whiskey Rebellion?
Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that Maryland's tax on the Bank of the US was unconstitutional because a state can not tax a federal institution.
What is McCulloch v Maryland?
Laws passed to get around laws created by the Radical Republicans that the South did not agree with concerning African Americans.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This ended the War of 1812.
What was the Treaty of Ghent of
Must have a population of 60,000+ and a state constitution.
What are the rules for statehood created by the Northwest Ordinance?
Passed as a result of suspicion of aliens (immigrants living in the country who were not citizens) and against the newspapers writing uncomplimentary things about President John Adams.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that states could not pass laws that would interfere with interstate commerce.
What is Gibbons v Ogden?
Granted adult heads of families 160 acres of public land for a small filing fee. Required you to build a home and cultivate the land.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
Not a treaty, but the place where Lee surrendered his army to Grant.
What is Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia?
Created a procedure for surveying and selling western lands north of the Ohio River.
What was the Ordinance of 1785?
President Adams sent a delegation to France to avoid war; the French demanded a bride and a loan for France for the privilege of seeing the king.
What was the XYZ Affair?
Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that Georgia had no right to interfere with the Cherokee, only the federal government had authority over matters involving the Cherokee.
What was Worcester v Georgia?
Made it possible for new western states to establish colleges for their citizens.
What is the Morrill Act of 1862?
When President Jackson refused to follow the Supreme Court and ordered the Cherokee out of Georgia and South Carolina and forcibly marched them to Oklahoma?
What is the Trail of Tears?
The solution to the issue of slavery in regards to taxation and population count. Each enslaved person counted as 3/5 of a free person.
What was the 3/5 Compromise?
This court case set up the policy of the Supreme Court exercising judicial review.
What was Marbury V. Madison?
Supreme Court case that ruled that slaves were property; and that Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in any territory and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
What was Dred Scott v. Sandford?
Allowed the President to divide up reservation land into small allotments to be given to individuals.
What is the Dawes Act of 1887?