Amendments
It outlawed slavery
What is the 13th amendment?
an economic theory based on reducing a country’s imports while expanding its exports in order to maximize wealth
What is mercantilism?
used to punish Massachusetts after the colonists protests
What are the Intolerable Acts?
-restricted European interference in the Western Hemispheres
What is the Monroe Doctrine of 1823?
-she changed the role of the First Lady including development of New Deal programs to aid those in need
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
It provided equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th amendment?
religious freedom
What is the reason why the New England colonies were established?
enslaved people in each state were counted as three-fifths of a person
What is the three-fifths compromise?
-extended United States sovereignty across the Mississippi River, nearly doubling the nominal size of the country
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
-created by Congress in 1865 to aid newly freed blacks after the Civil War
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
It gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
profit from trade
What is the reason the Southern colonies were established?
this diplomat was most responsible for negotiating French assistance to the U.S. during the Revolutionary War
Who is Ben Franklin?
helped to persuade many colonists who were undecided to support the cause of independence
What is Thomas Paine's Common Sense?
The Supreme Court ruling that affirmed the state level segregation of Jim Crow laws
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
What is the 15th amendment?
good harbors and river systems
What are the geographic features that significantly shaped the development of Mid-Atlantic colonies
-a colonial reaction to the British issued Stamp Act
What is creating the Committee of Correspondence?
banned slavery in the Northwest Territory effectively making the Ohio River the boundary between free and slave regions
What is the 1787 Northwest Ordinance?
against a national bank, wanted the role of the federal government restricted, believed that roads should be funded by the state
Who are Jacksonian Democrats?
It allowed citizens to elect U.S. senators.
What is the 17th amendment?
English ships loaded with rum, cloth, and other manufactured goods sailed to Africa, where they were traded for Africans and enslaved. The enslaved were transported on a brutal voyage to the Americas and sold to colonial landowners. Raw materials were then transported to England from the Americas to be made into the manufactured goods.
What is the Trans-Atlantic trade?
-it established U.S. as a sovereign nation
What is the Treaty of Paris 1783?
Organized crime and smuggling alcohol
What are the effects of the 18th amendment?
-annexed Oregon to increase the size of the U.S., encouraged Americans to fulfill Manifest Destiny
Who is President James Polk?