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The treaty that ended the French and Indian war.
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Made to protect the American settlers from being attack by Native Americans.
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Washington did not belong to any party, however, he did agree with certain actions the federalists took.
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Was chartered for 20 years by Congress, it came after the bank of North America.
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Began when Congress placed a tax of seven cents on every gallon of whiskey. Many people disliked this law, and a rebellion quickly began.
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Adams belonged to the Federalist party but thought of himself as an independent politician
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Was passed by John Adams, and was later taken down when Thomas Jefferson was elected president. The law allows the president to put any aliens in jail who are endangering the U.S.
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Was when the U.S. bought 828,000 square miles of French Territory and added it to their land.
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James Madison was a democrat-republican
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James Monroe was a federalist-republican.
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A treaty between Spain and the U.S. which gave the U.S. Florida and also set the boundary between the U.S.and New Spain.
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This is a compromise that allowed the number of slave and free states in the U.S. to stay the same. This was done because slave states were worried too many free states would not give them much of a say, and that if there were too many free states, it might be possible for the U.S. to outlaw slavery.
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John Q. Adams was a federalist-republican.
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Was the 7th President of the U.S. who became famous after winning the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812.
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Was a law passed that resulted in the Indians being pushed west of the Missisipi River.
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This society was founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan to end slavery. They usually handed out pamplets, had meetings, and gave speeches to make their points.
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In 1835, a proslavery mob burned abolitionist literature in South Carolina. Most of the literature was distributed by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan.
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After recieving a lot of letters from abolitionists demanding that the government put an end to slavery, the government tabled all anti-slavery petitions, meaning they would not read or act on the petitions.
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In 1838, a mob supporting slavery burned down Pennsylvanian Hall, which was often used for abolitionist meetings.
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James K. Polk was the 11th president of the U.S., as well as the 13th speaker in the House of Representatives, and the 9th govenor of Tenesee.
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Had Texas join the U.S. as the 28th state.
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Was fought after the Mexico did not allow the U.S. to annex California and New Mexico.
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Was a treaty that established the U.S.-Canada Boundary.
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The Mexican Cession was when the Mexicans gave up what is now California, Utah, Nevada, part of Wyoming, part of Arizona, part of New Mexico, and part of Colorado to the U.S.
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The compromise was formed because the U.S. couldn't decide whether to make some new land gained from Mexico a slave or free state. So the final compromise was that California would become a free state, the slave trade in Washington D.C. would end, and New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah could vote on whether they wanted to permit slavery when they applied for statehood
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The Fugitive Slave Act was part of the Compromise of 1850, which forces U.S. marshals and deputies to help slave owners capture slaves and deny them the right for freedom. This was made because Southeners were not happy that Northeners were helping so many slaves escape.
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This book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe after the Fugitive Slave Law was passed in order to show people how bad slavery was. The book made many more people become abolitionists and made Southeners very angry.
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The Gadsden Purchase was a purchase of lands south of the Gila River and west of the Rio Grande, which allowed Americans to build a Southern Transcontinental Railroad.
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This act repealed the line made by the Missouri Compromise, which said that states north of that line free and states south of that line slave states, with the exception of Missouri. The Kansas-Nebraska Act also allowed Kansas and Nebraska to have slavery through popular sovereignty.
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A lot of people moved to Kansas when they heard about the Kansas-Nebraska Act to change the popular sovereignty vote. This caused violence between the settlers and the people of Kansas.
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A slave named Dred Scott tried suing for freedom because his master had taken him to live in free territories. However, the court ruled against him and said that no slave or descendant of a slave could be a United States citizen and that Congress could not outlaw slavery, and that any state can choose to be a slave state.
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John Brown and 23 other men tried raiding Vriginia to give weapons to slaves and free them, they also captured and held hostage many important citizen in the town they were raiding, however, they got caught within 24 hours.
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Abraham Lincoln becomes president, which upsetted the South because they believed he would end slavery.
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Southeners were upset when Lincoln got elected because they thought he might get rid of slavery.
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Because southeners thought Lincoln would end slavery, they began seceding from the U.S. and formed their own country.