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Proclamation act
The proclamation act states that the colonist could not settle over the Appalachian Mountains. This rule was set so the colonist would not go into Indian territory. The colonist objected to this rule because they wanted to go over the mountains and settle. -
Sugar Act
The sugar act was said to generate revenue so they could get more sugar imports many colonists objected to the act because before they had illegally imported molasses. -
Currency act
This act prohibits printing paper money so it can be protected from financial ruin. the colonist made this rule unpopular because it was their self-governing right. -
Stamp act
They cut the duty on forign mollases from 6 to 3 pence per gallon to make more money. the colonist were angry but still celebrated because they were proud. -
Quartering act
The Quartering act prohibits soldiers from living in privet homes. They did this so they can make more money and keep the soldiers close for emergencies. The colonist then started to get violent because they were being kept away from each other. -
Declaratory Act
the act says that the colonist has a right to bathe so they can stay clean. the colonist didn't mind this rule they just followed it and did what they were told to do. -
Townshend Revenue Act
The colonist HAD to pay expenses involving the government. The colonist discouraged the act and didn't like it. -
Boston Massacre
Boston massacre was when the colonist and soldiers fought against each other, in battle and 5 people got shot and died. The battle was because the colonists got angry about the acts that were required. -
The Tea act
The act regulated increasing Bohea tea so they could make more money. The colonist did not like that wall and did not let them unload dirty because they wanted it. -
Boston Tea party
The Boston Tea party was when the colonists were told to throw the tea in the water. Some Unloyal colonists decided to stuff the tea in their pockets and steal it. -
The Intolerable Acts
This act regulated the port shuttered to remain, so they could harbor safely. The colonist obeyed the new law because the king made them. -
Lexington and Concord
The purpose was to not fire but it shows that they were angry and that they were big but both ended up firing. -
Bunker Hill
The purpose was to have a parade and they obeyed the British one that lost many men period. -
Declaration of Independence
This was when many colonists got together to create an agreement. Many people had signed. The agreement was to make the United States of America a free country. All of our founding fathers signed it and helped create it. -
Battle of Trenton
This battle was when America was against Britain and Germany. It was to free New Jersey from Britain's rule. America won and George Washington led the battle. -
battle of Saratoga
There were two battles, the USA won the second battle. they fought over New England. Gained allies with Spain and France. -
Valley Forge
The camp where the soldiers were sent to get stronger. There was a shortage of food and supply. They went to rest and get to be better soldiers. -
yorktown
3 weeks long and at the end America won. France and America worked and won together. Britain surrendered the final battle. -
Treaty of Paris
Articles of peace, 10 articles, that showed the rights. It came after the British lost and they were seeking peace. -
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Westward Expansion
The American revolution ended. Americans wanted to move west to expand. During this time it was called the west word expansion. -
The 3/5 compromise
All the free people got their votes counted. since slaves were not free but the smaller states wanted more votes they became able to vote but on the 3 out of 5 votes counted. -
The Whiskey rebellion
It was a tax that the government put out. The colonists did not like this new tax and they got so upset that they protest a lot. -
States rights
State rights started in amendment number 10. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." -
XYZ affairs
France attacked America The France minister sent three representatives to talk to America to get peace. these three representatives are known as X, Y, and Z. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
American citizens were scared that Europe might go along with the french. congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts -
Virginia and Kentucky resolutions
The American citizens thought the Alien and Sedition Acts were an abuse of power. The resolutions did not change the acts. -
Embargo act
It was a response to the Napoleonic wars. It prohibited American ships from leaving to go out of the country -
War of 1812
Many people were pro-war but some were anti-war because they just wanted to stay quiet and move on. -
McCulloch vs. Maryland
It was a debate about the government trying to create a bank for them and print and coin money. -
Compromise of 1820
While Missouri is the slave state Maine is not. The Compromise of 1820 or the Compromise of Missouri was to equal the slave states. -
Monroe Doctrine
This was right after the Latin American countries had won their freedom from Spain. The Europeans wanted to colonize even more. this document stopped them from doing that -
Frederick Douglass
He escaped slavery in Maryland and became a leader of the abolitionist act in Massachusetts and New York this is sectionalism in Massachusetts and in New York because she was the leader of the act in those states and not nationally. -
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was an enslaved woman that escaped her enslavement and saved many slaves with an escape route she created which was the underground railroad. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner's Rebellion was one of the deadliest acts by slaves because it killed up to 65 white people during it. Only the Virginia slaves were involved Making it a sectionalism rebellion. -
Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad helped many people to freedom. Harriet Tubman created it to help free the slaves. This was sectionalism because the Underground Railroad was only in some parts of America. -
the 1850 compromise
The government wanted a boundary for Texas after California was defined as a free state. Also in Washington DC, they got rid of the slave trade. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act connects with sectionalism because it created a higher risk of slaves returning to the free states. then the free states would become slave states again. -
Emancipation Proclamation
When Abraham Lincoln was the president he did not like slavery. He created a document (proclamation) that freed the slaves. This was all going on during the third year of the civil war.