Download This British rule prohibited the American colonists from moving west

This is an early
religious movement in
the 1740s that led to
the idea of making
contracts around
common principles. It
led to the formation of
new Christian
denominations, and
united colonies with
common cultural
experience before
Revolution.
First Great
Awakening
This British rule
prohibited the
American colonists
from moving west
of the Appalachian
Mountains after the
French and Indian
War.
Royal
Proclamation
of 1763
These British laws
embodied
mercantilism,
restricting shipping
from North American
colonies to English
ships only. The
inability to trade with
other countries
contributed to colonial
frustration with
England before
Revolution.
Navigation
Acts
This 1765 British
law taxed printing in
the colonies to pay
for the ongoing cost
of housing British
soldiers after the
French and Indian
War. It resulted in
colonial protests
contributing to the
Revolution.
Stamp Act
Spanish and French
support of this
colonial North
American conflict
was primarily based
on the ability of
colonists to win and
a desire to see
England weakened.
European
countries and
the American
Revolution
This weak basis of
federation between
the 13 colonies
maintained unity
during the American
Revolution and
created a system by
which territories
became new states
in the future.
Articles of
Confederation
This set of
agreements
balanced the
interests of large
Southern slave
states with smaller
Northeastern states
to replace the
Articles of
Confederation.
Constitutional
Compromises
This collection of
amendments to the
Constitution was
designed to ensure
individual and
state’s rights, as well
as convince antifederalists to ratify
the Constitution.
Bill of Rights
George Washington
issued a statement
in 1793 requiring
that the United
States stay out of
any conflicts
between France and
Spain and it became
guiding principle of
U.S. foreign policy
for 100 years.
Proclamation
of Neutrality
The first peaceful
transfer of power
between opposing
political ideals took
place when Thomas
Jefferson beat John
Adams.
Election of
1800
Supreme Court
Justice John
Marshall established
judicial review, the
ability of the courts
to declare Acts of
Congress
unconstitutional,
with this decision in
1803.
Marbury v.
Madison
Thomas Jefferson
bought this land
from France and
more than doubled
the size of the
United States of
America in a move
that was counter to
his Republican value
of a modest
Executive.
Louisiana
Purchase
This was the last
international
conflict fought on
American land
between England
and the U.S. over
England’s
impressments of
American sailors.
The War was
basically a stalemate.
War of 1812
1823 Presidential
declaration that any
European effort to
interfere with or
colonize the
Western
Hemisphere would
be considered a
hostile act against
the United States of
America.
Monroe
Doctrine
Disagreement between
Democratic President
Andrew Jackson and
the Whigs over state
or federal support of
financial institutions.
Jackson’s victory
caused the Panic of
1837.
The Bank
War
Whig Henry Clay’s
economic strategy of
high tariffs to promote
domestic
manufacturing growth
and prevent England
from economic
domination of the U.S.
Also included a focus
on a national bank and
government support
for infrastructure.
The
American
System
This period of the
early 1800s was
dominated by the
building of
waterways to
improve
transportation and
connect the
Northeast U.S. with
the Great Lakes
region.
The canal era
The Northeast led
this transportation
revolution.
Conflicts between
the North and
South prevented
Western expansion
of this network until
Civil War. This led
to industrial growth
th
in late 19 Century.
The growth
of railroads
The leading
abolitionist who
published The
Liberator in 1831.
His advocacy of
women’s rights split
the Abolitionist
movement in 1839.
William
Lloyd
Garrison
This 1816
organization
implemented plans
to have freed slaves
emigrate to Liberia
in Africa. This
organization was
made up of people
who wanted blacks
out of the U.S. as
well as abolitionists.
American
Colonization
Society
This 1820 deal allowed
Maine to become part
of the U.S. as a free
state, Missouri as a
slave state, land South
of 36’ 30º to have
slavery, and all other
territory in the
Louisiana Purchase
north of 36’ 30º to be
free except Missouri.
Missouri
Compromise
This Supreme Court
case declared that
slaves were not
citizens under the U.S.
Constitution and
therefore no state
could afford them
rights of persons. The
backlash against this
decision increased
support for the antislavery cause.
Dred Scott v.
Sandford
This deal admitted
California as a free
state and created the
newly strengthened
Fugitive Slave Act
that led to violent
reclaiming of
escaped slaves.
Compromise
of 1850
This law ended the
Missouri
Compromise by
instituting popular
sovereignty for
states joining Union.
This led to
“Bleeding Kansas”
as slave factions
violently fought.
KansasNebraska Act
This issue was of
major concern to
Lincoln early in the
war. Eventually,
foreign countries
were content to
remain neutral in
order to maintain
trade relations with
both North and
South.
European
countries and
the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln’s
1863 declaration
that slaves in states
that do not rejoin
the Union are free.
The declaration was
more of a moral and
political statement
than a policy that
had any immediate
effect.
Emancipation
Proclamation
This was tenant
farming by former
slaves after the Civil
War in economic
and social
conditions that were
not much different
than slavery.
Sharecropping
A group of federal
elected officials
from Abraham
Lincoln’s Party who
wanted severe
punishment of
Southern states after
the Civil War. Their
approach was
abandoned after
1877.
Radical
Republicans
Two leading African
American scholars
that had opposing
views on how
African Americans
would overcome
institutional racism.
The first believed in
integration and civil
rights. The second
believed in self help.
W.E.B.
Du Bois and
Booker T.
Washinton
Mid-19th Century
American writer
that advocated
extreme
individualism, self
reliance, and
peaceful harmony
with nature.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
This 1890 law
prohibited the vertical
or horizontal
integration of
companies creating
monopolistic
domination of a
market. It was first
used to stop unions,
though, instead of
corporations.
Sherman
Anti-Trust
Act
Late 19th Century
political movement
supporting farmers
and the working-class
over the wealthy.
They wanted an end to
the gold standard, the
implementation of a
graduated income tax,
and government
controlled utilities.
Populism
Immigrants
primarily came to
U.S. for better
economic
circumstances. Early
immigrants were
English and
German. Midcentury were Irish
and late were
Eastern Europeans.
th
19 century
immigration
Woodrow Wilson’s
principles for world
peace after the First
World War
including forming
the League of
Nations. U.S.
Senate failed to
ratify the League of
Nations, promoting
isolationism instead.
Fourteen
Points
1920s single women
who enjoyed the
good life of new
dancing, drinking,
and freedoms
associated with
modernism.
“Flappers”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
and Ernest
Hemingway wrote
about characters
who were
disillusioned with
modern American
life. Gertrude Stein
called such writers
the “Lost
Generation.”
Writers of the
“Jazz Age”
Three Republican
presidents in a row
advocated a close,
cooperative
relationship
between
government and
business.
Harding,
Coolidge,
and Hoover
Low prices and
drought made this
American product
in the 1920s a major
cause of the Great
Depression of the
1930s. At a time
when other parts of
the country were
thriving, this
industry failed.
1920s
agriculture
This economic
crash of 1930s led
to the New Deal. It
was caused by
international trade
restrictions, inflated
stock market
speculation, and
failing farms in the
1920s.
The Great
Depression
This 1932
Democratic
candidate disagreed
with Hoover’s
comparatively
hands-off approach
to the failing
economy. He led
the greatest increase
in federal power in
U.S. history.
Franklin
Delano
Roosevelt
This is FDR’s plan
to end the Great
Depression. It
created federal
financing of
electrical plants,
social security, bank
and securities
regulations, and the
right to form unions
during the 1930s.
The New
Deal
This character in
government
advertising
symbolized a major
consequence of
WWII on the home
front: the entrance
of women into the
industrial
workforce.
“Rosie the
Riveter”
This imprisoned some
Asian Americans to
prevent domestic
espionage during
World War II. It was
declared constitutional
by the Supreme Court
in the widely criticized
case of Korematsu v.
United States.
JapaneseAmerican
Internment
Camps
An effort led by one
U.S. Senator to
expose Russian
communist
sympathizers during
the 1950s.
Investigations and
interrogations were
ultimately
considered
excessive.
McCarthyism
This 1954 Supreme
Court case
overturned Plessy v.
Ferguson and found
that educational
opportunities could
not be separate and
equal under the U.S.
Constitution.
Brown v.
Board of
Education
This Congressional
authorization was
used by Lyndon
Johnson to justify
military action in
Vietnam. This
authorization took
place after the U.S.
Navy was allegedly
attacked in Asia.
Gulf of
Tonkin
Resolution