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Declaratoin of Indepedence
The Declaration of indepedence set up America as being a nation that would for now on govern itself without the interference of Great Britain. -
Articles of Confederation
a declaration that established a national government which was made up of a one-house legislature known as the Confederation Congress -
Treaty of Paris II
This treaty officially ended the Revolutionary War between the U.S and Great Britain. This also opened the land of North America to the colonies -
Land Ordinance of 1784
Written by Thomas Jefferson it was called for the land in the recently-created United States of America west of the Appalachian Mountains, north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River to be divided into separate states. -
Land Ordinance of 1785
the immediate goal of the ordinance was to raise money through the sale of land in the largely unmapped territory west of the original states acquired at the 1783 adopted by the Continental Congress -
Shays' Rebellion
an armed uprising that took place in central and western Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787. The culprit was Daniel Shay, a veteran of the Revolution. He and others demanded cheap paper money, lighter taxes, and a suspension of property takeover. -
Annapolis Convention
a meeting in 1786 at Annapolis, Maryland, of 12 delegates from five states. That unanimously called for a constitutional convention -
Constitutional Convention
was intended to address the problems of the Articles of Confederation. But from the outset it was to create a new government rather than fix an existing one. The convention was run by George Washington and consisted of high caliber individuals. The result was the United States Constitution -
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
It called for dividing the territory into gridded townships, so that once the lands were surveyed, they could be sold to individuals and speculative land companies. This would provide both a new source of federal government revenue and an orderly pattern for future settlement -
Conneticut Compromise
The Connecticut Compromise was submitted on this date, and was the first of several compromises the Convention had. It made a bicameral legislature, with the lower house being represented by population, and the higher house, the Senate, being represented equally for all states. Other compromises include the Three-Fifths Compromise, and the Slave Trade and Commerce Compromise. -
United States Constitution
rules and separate powers of the three branches of the federal government: a legislature, the bicameral Congress; an executive branch led by the President; and a federal judiciary headed by the Supreme Court. It also frames the principles of federalism and the amendments. -
First President
George Washington is inagurated as the first president of the United States. -
Bank of U.S.
Alexander Hamilton believed a central bank was necessary to stabilize and improve the nation's credit, and to improve handling of the financial business of the United States government under the newly enacted Constitution. -
Bill of Rights
the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. These limitations serve to protect the natural rights of liberty and property. They guarantee a number of personal freedoms, limit the government's power in judicial and other proceedings, and reserve some powers to the states and the public. -
Fugitive Slave Act
guaranteed the right of a slaveholder to recover an escaped slave. -
Proclamation of Neutrality
a formal announcement issued by United States President George Washington on April 22, 1793, declaring the nation neutral in the conflict between France and Great Britain. It threatened legal proceedings against any American providing assistance to any country at war. -
Cotton Gin
a machine , invented by Eli Whitney, that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. -
Jay's Treaty
The British agreed to vacate the western forts by June 1796 (which was done), and to compensate American ship owners. In return, the United States gave most favored nation trading status to Britain. -
The Telegraph
Samuel Morse invented the electric telegraph by using 35 wires with gold electrodes in water and at the receiving end 2000 feet the message was read by the amount of gas caused by electrolysis. -
Whiskey Rebellion
the new government imposed a tax on whiskey which many farmers didnt like. Most farmers were contending for the priciples of the American Revolution. Climax came in july 1794. The result was armed resistance to tax collectors was eliminated, but tax evasion remained. -
Battle of Fallen Timbers
a struggle between American Indian tribes affiliated with the Western Confederacy and the United States for control of the Northwest Territory. The battle, which was a decisive victory for the United States, ended major hostilities in the region until Tecumseh's War and the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811. -
Pickneys Treaty
defined the boundaries of the United States with the Spanish colonies and guaranteed the United States navigation rights on the Mississippi River. -
Treaty of Greenville
In exchange for goods to the value of $20,000 (such as blankets, utensils, and domestic animals), the American Indian tribes ceded to the United States large parts of modern-day Ohio. -
Farwell Address
George Washington's final speech to the world about the benefits of a federal government and the warning of foriegn affairs. -
John Adams
Became the second president of the U.S. -
XYZ Affair
a political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798, early in the administration of John Adams, involving the United States and Republican France. Its name derives from the substitution of the letters X, Y and Z for the names of French diplomats in documents released by the Adams administration. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
1798 by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress in the aftermath of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with France, later known as the Quasi-War. They were signed into law by President John Adams. -
Kentucy and Virginia Resolution
political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799, in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. The resolutions argued that the states had the right and the duty to declare unconstitutional any acts of Congress that were not authorized by the Constitution. -
Logan Act
a United States federal law that forbids unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments. -
Fries's Rebellion
the third of three tax-related rebellions in the 18th century United States. The culprit was John Fries, a dutch farmer. The tax was a direct tax on land, slaves, and homes. -
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson is inagurated as the third president of the United States. -
Marbury v. Madison
a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution. The landmark decision helped define the boundary between the constitutionally separate executive and judicial branches of the American form of government. -
Louisiana Purchase
land purchased from france by America for 15 million dollars. It more than doubled the size of America -
Lewis and Clark
Merriweather Lewis and William Clark were sent by Congress on an expenditure to explore the land of the Louisiana Purchase -
Cumberland Road
the first major improved highway in the United States to be built by the federal government. -
Steamboat
Invented by Robert Fulton. the steamboat was a revolutionary technology that would change sea travel forever. -
Embargo Act of 1807
a general embargo enacted by the United States Congress against Great Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars. The embargo was imposed in response to violations of U.S. neutrality, in which American merchantmen and their cargo were seized as contraband of war by the belligerent European navies. -
Non-intercourse Act
the collective name given to six statutes passed by the United States Congress in 1790, 1793, 1796, 1799, 1802, and 1834. The Act regulates commerce between Native Americans and non-Indians. -
James Madison
became the fourth president of the United States -
War of 1812
a 32-month military conflict between the United States and the British Empire and their Indian allies which resulted in no territorial change between the Empire and the US, but a resolution of many issues which remained from the American War of Independence. -
Treaty of Ghent
was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The treaty restored relations between the two nations to status quo ante bellum - that is, there was no loss of territory either way. -
Battle of New Orleans
the final major battle of the War of 1812.[6][7] American forces, commanded by Major General Andrew Jackson, defeated an invading British Army intent on seizing New Orleans and the vast territory the United States had acquired with the Louisiana Purchase.[ -
Indiana
located in the midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th U.S. state on December 11, 1816. -
James Monroe
James Monroe was inagurated as the fifth president of the United States. -
Rush-Bagot Treaty
a treaty between the United States and Britain limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain, following the War of 1812. -
Panic of 1819
was the first major peacetime financial crisis in the United States followed by a general collapse of the American economy persisting through 1821. The Panic announced the transition of the nation from its colonial commercial status with Europe toward a dynamic economy, increasingly characterized by the financial and industrial imperatives of laisser-faire capitalism and susceptible to boom and bust cycles. -
Dartmouth College v.Woodward
was a landmark decision from the United States Supreme Court dealing with the application of the Contract Clause of the United States Constitution to private corporations. Protects principle of honoring contracts and charters -
Adams-Onis Treaty
a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that gave Florida to the U.S. and set out a boundary between the U.S. and New Spain (now Mexico). -
McCulloch v. Maryland
was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. The state of Maryland had attempted to impede operation of a branch of the Second Bank of the United States by imposing a tax on all notes of banks not chartered in Maryland. Prohibits state laws from infringing upon federal constitutional authority -
Missouri
The land that is now Missouri was acquired from France as part of the Louisiana Purchase and became known as the Missouri Territory. Part of the Territory was admitted into the union as the 24th state on August 10, 1821. -
Monroe Doctrine
stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention. It also stated that the U.S. would not interfere with foriegn countries and their affairs. -
Gibbons v. Ogden
was a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce was granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution. Affirms federal over state authority in interstate commerce -
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams is inagurated as the sixth president of the United States -
Erie Canal
is a canal in New York that runs about 363 miles (584 km) from Albany, New York, on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York, at Lake Erie, completing a navigable water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.
