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Shay's Rebellion
It was caused by several factors including: financial problems brought about by a post-war economic depression, and a credit squeeze caused by a lack of hard currency. -
Constitutional Convention
The Convention was ment to revise the Articles of Confederation,it was to create a new government rather than fix the existing one. -
Judiciary Act 1789
The Act set the number of Supreme Court justices at six. It also created 13 judicial districts within the 11 states that had then ratified the Constitution. -
Second Great Awakening
Was a protestant movement that began around 1790. After 1820 membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations, whose preachers led the movement.
The Second Great Awakening has been described as a reaction against skepticism and rational Christianity. -
Whiskey Rebellion
It was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791. Farmers who used their leftover grain and corn in the form of whiskey as a medium of exchange were forced to pay a new tax. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
It was four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress in the aftereffects of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with France. -
Marbury v. Madison
The Federalist Congress increased the number of circuit courts. This case established the concept of Judicial Review to declare a law unconstitutional. This brought the Judicial Branch of the government on a more power basis with the Legislative and Executive Branches. -
Louisiana Purchase
Was the acquisition by the U.S.A in 1803 of 828,000 square miles of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana. The Louisiana territory encompassed all of 15 current U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. -
Embargo Act 1807
Congress in response to the British orders in council restricting neutral shipping and to Napoleon's restrictive Continental System. -
War of 1812
It was a 32 month military conflict between the United States and the British Empire. A resolution of many issues remaining from the American War of Independence. -
Election of 1816
With the Federalist Party in collapse, Madison's Secretary of State, James Monroe, had an advantage in winning the presidency. Monroe won the electoral college. -
Election of 1824
Was the 10th quadrennial presidential election. John Adams was elected President, after the election was decided by the House of Representatives. -
Election of 1828
Featured a rematch between John Adams, now incumbent President, and Andrew Jackson, the runner-up. With no other major candidates, Jackson and his chief ally Martin Van Buren consolidated their bases in the South and New York and easily defeated Adams. -
Indian Removal Act 1830
Was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson. The act authorized him to negotiate with the Indians in the Southern United States for them to remove to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homelands. -
Nullification Crisis 1832
The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, created by South Carolina's 1832 Ordinance of Nullification. -
Dawes Act
Is a federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners. This is by providing families that cooperate with 160 acres of reservation land for farming. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
Was the last battle of the American Indian Wars. Located on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. It left 150 Native Americans dead. -
Founding of the NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909. -
First Red Scare
Was marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism. Concerns over the effects of radical political agitation in American society. -
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. Though it was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, many French-speaking black writers from African and Caribbean colonies who lived in Paris were also influenced by the Harlem Renaissance -
Red Summer
Describes the race riots that occurred in more than three dozen cities in the United States during the summer and early autumn of 1919. In most instances, whites attacked African Americans. -
Election of 1932
The election took place in during the Great Depression, that had ruined the promises of incumbent President and Republican candidate to bring about a new era of prosperity. Economics was dominant, and the sort of cultural issues that had dominated previous elections including Catholicism and the Ku Klux Klan were dormant. -
Attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The bombings of the cities in Japan were conducted by the U.S. during the final times of World War II in 1945. -
Truman Doctrine
It was a policy brought by the U.S. President Harry Truman in a speechon, stating that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere. -
Korean War (1950-1953)
Was the result of the political division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the end of the Pacific War. The Korean Peninsula was ruled by the Empire of Japan from 1910 until the end of World War II. -
Creation of NATO 1949
It's an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty. The organization constitutes a system of collective defence where its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. -
New Deal
Was a series of economic programs enacted in the United States. The programs were in response to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs".
