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| Bacon's Rebellion | Rebels felt the governor of Virginia failed to protect the frontier from the Native Americans |
| Navigation Acts | only english and American ships allowed to colonial ports; dissent began in 1763 |
| Mercantilism | ensured trade with mother country, nationalism; toor estrictive on colonial economy, not voted on by colonists |
| William and Mary | ended the dominion of new england, gave power back to colonies |
| Dominion of New England | combined northern states into one "supercolony". Sir Edmond Andros was a "supergovernor" |
| The Glorious Revolution | William and Mary kicked James II out of England and allowed more power to the legislatures |
| James Oglethorpe | Established colony of Georgia as a place for honest debtors |
| The Enlightenment | Emphasis on human reason, logic, and science. increased followers of Christianity |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Prohibited settlements west of Appalachian, restriction on colonial growth |
| Salutary Neglect | Parliament took minor actions in the colonies, allowing them to experiment with and become accustomed to self-government, international trade agreements |
| Writs Assistance | search warrants on shipping to reduce smuggling; challenged by James Otis |
| Townshend Act (1767) | raised money to pay colonial officials by American taxes; led to Boston boycott of English luxuries |
| Declaratory Act | allowed Parliament to completely legislate over the colonies, limited colonists' say |
| Committees of Correspondence | committees appointed from different colonies to communicate on matters; asserted rights to self-government, cooperation between colonies |
| Intolerable Acts | In reaction to Boston tea party; closing of Boston Harbor, revocation of massachusetts charter |
| OLIVE BRANCH PETITION | politely demanded from the king a cease fire in Boston |
| BATTLE OF YORKTOWN | last major battle; surrender of Cornwallis, led King George III to offically make peace with the colonies |
| TREATY OF PARIS (1783) | Full american independence, territory west of appalachain ceded to america |
| Northwest Ordinance of 1787 | defined process for territories to become states, forbade slavery in the new territories |
| James Madison | Strong central government, separation of powers |
| Shay's Rebellion | mistreated farmers, fear of mobocracy, forced people to think about central government |
| Federalism | strong central government provided by power divided between state and national governments, checks and balances, amendable constitution |
| Whiskey Rebellion | Western PA farmers' violent protest against whiskey excise tax. washington sent large army to put down revolt |
| Citizen Genet | Edmon Genet contributed to polarization of the new nation by creating his American Foreign Legion in the south, which was directed to attck Spanish garrisons in New Orleans and St. Augustine |
| Impressment | British Navy would take American sailors and force them to work for Britain |
| Jay's Treaty | provided for evacuation of English troops from posts in the Great Lakes |
| Nullification | states could refuse to enforce the federal laws they deemed unconstitutional |
| Neutrality Proclamation of 1793 | response to french attempts for alliance with us |
| Macon's Bill No. 2 | president has power to cease trade with any foreign country that violated American neutrality |
| John C. Calhoun | opposed Polk's high-handedness, avid southern slave-owner |
| William Henry Harrison | military hero from war of 1812; elected president 1840, died of pneumonia a month later, gave presidency to Tyler |
| Rush-Bagot Treaty (1817) | agreement between us and britain to remove armed fleets from the great lakes |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | remainder of Florida sold by spain to us, boundary of mexico defined |
| Trail of Tears | cherokee tribe forced to move from southern appalachians to reservations in current-day Oklahoma |
| Horace Mann | worked to reform the American education system, abolitionist, prison/asylum reform with Dorothea Dix |
| William Lloyd Garrison | editor of the Liberator (strongly abolitonist newspaper) and fought for feminist movement |
| Nat Turner's Rebellion | Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in Virginia. Prompted virginians to consider emancipation |
| Alamo | Mexicans held siege on the alamo. |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | acquired mexican cession. mexico acknowledge american succession of texas |
| Compromise of 1850 | california admitted as free state. |
| Fugitive Slave Act | runaway slaves could be caught in the north and be brought back to their masters |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | territory split into Kansas and Nebraska, popular sovereignty. (kansas slave, nebraska free) |
| Bleeding Kansas | borner ruffians in election on issue of slavery incited controvgersy, proslavery group attacked Lawrence, kansas, Pottawatomie Massacre |
| Lecompton Constitution | proslavery constitution in Kansas, supported by Buchanan. Freesoilers against it |
| Battle of Antietam | Lee's attack on Maryland in hopes that he could take it from the Union. bloodiest day of the war, stalemate, McClellan replaced by Burnside, stalemate. south would never be close to victory again |
| Compromise of 1877 | south to gain removal of last troops from Reconstruction; north wins hayes as president |
| Sherman Anti-Trust act | forbade restraint of trade and did not distinguish good from bad trusts, ineffective due to lack of enforcement |
| populist party | emerged from farmers' alliance movement |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | supreme court legalized the "separate but equal" philosophy |
| Platt Amendment | U.S. would ensure that cuba would be protected from European powers and maintain a place in cuban affairs |
| Dollar Diplomacy | government would protect america's foreigh investments with any force needed; under president Taft |
