7 years war
A dispute over a french fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
Treaty of New Echota
Sneaky deal that exchanged Cherokee land in Georgia for a reservation territory west of the Mississippi River.
virginia and kentucky resolutions
drafted by thomas jefferson and james madison, claimed that alien and sedition acts were unconstitutional and overstepped federal authority under the constitition, and could therefore be nullified by the states
Containment
Truman took measures to contain the spread of communism. The U.S. would provide economic and military support to any country fighting communism
War hawkes
Politics was very negative with the rise of political parties, political violence, and deep political divisions
Thomas Gage
Assimilationist movement
Nat turners rebellion
A young slave organized a rebellion believing that god had told him to do so. He and his followers killed over 50 people
Wilmot Proviso
An amendment to a law in congress that stipulated that any land gained in the Mexican-American war wouldn't be ineligible for the spread of slavery. Symbolized the growing tension over westward expansion and slavery.
Haymarket square riot
First great awakening
A revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s.
Election of 1860
Lincoln campaigned on halting the expansion of slavery. He won without a single Southern electoral vote, prompting the south to realize they no longer any voice in the future of slavery in america
Hundreds of thousands gathered for a peaceful protest in front of the lincoln memorial. MLK gave his 'I have a dream' speech
Connecticut compromise
Nativists successfully pressured Congress to stop the flow of Chinese immigrants who were coming over during the gold rush.
Articles of confederation
Looked to balance national coordination and states rights to prevent tyranny. It featured a unicameral legislature, but the federal government had no money and no military
2nd Continental Congress
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
Effects of the War of 1812
The embargo
President Jefferson established an embargo on foreign trade in retaliation for Britain and France attacks on American ships.
Colonial attitude towards independence
Plymouth
Colony settled by the Pilgrims. It eventually merged with Massachusetts Bay colony.
Established the southern border of the United States and granted a huge portion of land known as the Mexican cession which included California and new Mexico
Changes in farming
applied restrictions to immigration and speech in US made it a crime for americans to print, utter, or publish any false, scandalous, malicious writing about the government
Free Soil Party
Formed by abolitionists who wanted to ban slavery everywhere
System that took slaves to the New World to work for the Spanish. Required that a tax be paid to the Spanish ruler for each slave brought over.
Britians first colony, established in outer banks, NC. When they came back, it was abandonded
joint-stock company
A business, often backed by a government charter, that sold shares to individuals to raise money for its trading enterprises and to spread the risks (and profits) among many investors.
