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Indian Removal Act of 1830
Removed native americans from their land and sent them to reservations west of the Mississippi river.
Panic of 1819
First major recession in the United States
Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists
Election of 1797
First contested election in American history, won by John Adams (Washington's vice president)
Kansas-Nebraska act
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Virtual representation
Farmers in southeast Pennsylvania stopped paying taxes for the larger military. John Fries led a peaceful protest, but John Adams ordered federal troops to stop the protest, and they made mass arrests, assaulted newspaper editors, and almost executed John Fries.
Laissez-faire economics
There was an extreme lack of government regulation of the economy at the time
George Washington's Presidency
Established many precedents for the office of the president. Created a cabinet-style government, appointed cabinet officials based on merit, and stepped down after 2 terms
National Grange movement
Social and educational collective aimed at brining farmers together. Soon became political to lobby for farmers
The plan for representation favored by large states. It called for 2 houses with population based representation and a strong national government.
Red Scare
Anne Hutchinson
Convention of 1818
More American fishing rights, set the U.S. - Canada border at the 49th parallel, and called for the joint-occupation of Oregon
Hamilton's financial plan
1) Establish the U.S. credit worthiness 2) Unify the states' debt 3) Create a national bank 4) Whiskey tax to pay for the revolution 5) Establish tariffs to protect american businesses
War hawkes
Younger Americans who had been born after the revolution, were ardent nationalists, and wanted war with Britain to invade Florida and Canada.
Louisiana purchase
Napoleon needed money to quell the Haitian revolution, so he sold the Louisiana territory, and Jefferson bought. This was controversial because the constitution didn't specify how to add territory to the union.
Cesar Chavez
Led the protests for fair labor for agricultural workers
Dred Scott case
A slave in Missouri was taken to live in free Wisconsin, for two years, and he sued for his freedom. The Supreme Court ruled that slaves aren't citizens, and they are property so nobody can be deprived of their property without due process.
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
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
A dissenter who clashed with the Massachusetts Puritans over separation of church and state and was banished in 1636, after which he founded the colony of Rhode Island to the south
Tenure of Office Act
The Feminine Mystique
Explained the boredom and imprisonment of the typical housewife who was beholden to the needs of her family at the expense of her own needs. Argued that women should seek fulfilment and careers as well.
Restricted the civil rights of african americans in the south. Made it harder to vote, own property, even banned them from testifying against white people
Thomas Gage
Olive branch petition
