Early US
Creating a new law or event that others continue to do.
Precedent
First President of the United States
George Washington
What do we call the first ten amendments to the Constitution?
the Bill or Rights
What caused the Whiskey Rebellion?
opposition to a tax on whiskey
Explorers of Louisiana Territory
Lewis and Clark
Nurse in the Civil War, started the Red Cross
Clara Barton
freed African people who were living in states that were rebelling
Emancipation Proclamation
Which treaty allowed us to gain the Mexican Cession?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
These change the constitution. We have 27
Amendments
Believed in a strict interpretation of the constitution, wrote the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Compromise of 1850, Compromise of 1820, perennial presidential candidate early 1880s
Henry Clay
The Federalist strongly supported a
strong centralized government
Greatest problem when introducing new states into the union was over this issue
Slavery
President during Reconstruction, first of three Presidents to be impeached
Andrew Johnson
place limits on the opportunities open to Black people after the Civil War
Black Codes
Belief Americans should own land from Atlantic to Pacific Oceans
Manifest Destiny
Supported England in the American Revolution
Loyalists
Extreme love of ones country
Nationalism
Father of the constitution president during the War of 1812
Madison
What was impressment?
after sailors were captured and forced to serve in a foreign navy
Birthplace of the factory system
Lowell, MA
18th President, led the union forces
U. S. Grant
Civil War
The significance of the Supreme Court case, Marbury v. Madison is that the decision created this for the Supreme Court
Judicial Review
reduce the fear of loss of representation by Southern States with large slave populations in the Constitution
3/5ths Compromise
the first secretary of the treasury believed in loose interpretation and rule by the wealthy elite
Alexander Hamiltion
At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, the Great Compromise settled the issue of representation in Congress by
Each state has two senators and a number of representatives based on population.
Led attack at Pottawatomie Creek and at Harpers Ferry to get rid of slavery
John Brown
a party that supported industry, a growing centralized government, and rule by property owners
Federalist
Susan B. Anthony/Elizabeth Cady Stanton fought for? women's suffrage in the 19th century?
women's suffrage
A system where former slaves and poor whites worked land in exchange for a share of the crops
Sharecropping
It granted African American men the right to vote
15th Amendment
Thomas Paine wrote this to inspire people to fight against England
Person already in the office running for re election
Incumbant
People in an area voting on issues important to them, for example slavery
popular Sovereignty
This rebellion showed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
Shays Rebellion
What was the 2nd revival of religious feeling in the United States?
Second Great Awakening
What invention increased slavery in the South created by Eli Whitney
Cotton Gin
author of a sensational anti-slavery book
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What doctrine prohibited Europe from entering in affairs in the Western Hemisphere?
Monroe Doctrine