Executive Power
Federal troops made 16,000 indigenous people move from southeast to west of Mississippi Trail of Tears
Indian Removal Act
Who were the Federalists?
And
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
Led by Madison and -Hamilton ( favored ratifying the Consitution)
- Thomas Jefferson (and others like Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Patrick Henry)
Weaknesses of the Articles
Articles of Confederation
Salutary neglect (what is it?)
Self-governance
Public School Movement
Horace Mann
Warned Europe monarchies they had no business in America.
The Monroe Doctrine
What class of people were in the Federalists ?
Wealthier, better educated, lived in cities
Reforms introduced by _______________
The Constitution
British soldiers fired at a Boston mob, killing five
Patriots used this problem to incite and organize colonists.
Boston Massacre
Reform for the Mentaly Ill.
Dorthea Dix
First purchase made by Presiedent Jefferson, buying the western half of the Missippi River basin from France
The Louisiana Purchase
What class of people were in the Anti- Federalists ?
-Farmers, lower working class & those who favored the state government.
Articles of Confederation
The Continental Congress adopted _____________
(July 4th 1776)
Declaration of Independence
Women's Right Convention (1848)
Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady Stanton
What president suspented the Habeas Corpus
President Lincoln.
Who were the Federalists?
-Federalists were a group who advocated for a stronger government w/ checks & balances & separation of powers.
Emphasizes a unified national identity.
Constitution
An agreement bound the Pilgrims together when they arrived in New England
Mayflower Compact
Married Women's Property Act
Guranteeing women property for the first time.
A limit on Congress's authority to authorize detention by the executive.
Suspension of Habeas Corpus
Federalist vs. Antifederalists
What did they argue?
-Argued about if having a National Bank. Federalist were for it, believed it would help the United States economy.
BUT Anti-Federalists believed it could be too dangerous to have a National Bank.
Purpose of the Constitution?
Established a representative government based on six principles.
Wealthmen saw and founded colonies to grow in wealth
Economic motivations of Britain
Transcendentalism
Henery David Thoreau
(learn universal truths and get closer to God)