A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
British colonization
Anne Hutchinson
Phyllis Schlafly
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
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
Election of 1828
Annapolis convention
Secret meeting between delegates of 6 states to discuss how to fix the articles of confederation
Secret ballot
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
Effects of the War of 1812
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
More American fishing rights, set the U.S. - Canada border at the 49th parallel, and called for the joint-occupation of Oregon
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.
Positions on expansion of slavery
Panic of 1819
First major recession in the United States
First great awakening
A revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s.
Red Scare
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
Hamilton's financial plan
Black codes
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
Rush-Bagot pact
Agreement with Britain that removed military ships from the great lakes.
France and others wanted their debt paid back, yet the national government didn’t have money. States had individual economies that didn’t collaborate.
Civil rights act of 1866
A staunch Calvinist who began preaching outdoors in England. He moved to the colonies in 1740. In 2 years he was able to speak to over a quarter of the American population
Market revolution
The linking of northern industries with western and southern farms which was created by advances in agriculture, industry, communication, and transportation
sedition act
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
Cesar Chavez
Led the protests for fair labor for agricultural workers
Dutch colonization
Fur trade and other economic reasons
The British continued to kidnap american sailors. Washington sent John Jay to london to negotiate
Federalists
Colonists were required to ship certain products exclusively to England. These acts made colonists very angry because they were forbidden from trading with other countries.
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.
