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Alien and Sedition Acts
kept people from speaking against government |
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1798
violation of 1st amendment |
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Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
in response to Alien and Sedition |
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Louisiana Purchase
doubled size of country |
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1803
expansion, Jefferson going against his own beliefs |
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Marbury v Madison
court case on midnight appointments |
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1803
established judicial review |
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Treaty of Ghent
end of War of 1812 |
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1814
restored conditions back to the way they were before |
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McCulloch v Maryland
says states can't tax the federal government |
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1819
"Power to tax is the power to destroy." |
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Missouri Compromise
compromise over slave/free state issue |
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1820
important example of compromise over slavery between N & S |
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| Monroe Doctrine defended Manifest Destiny |
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| 1823 take all land in N. America and keep other nations out |
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Gibbons v Ogden
between ferry captains (NJ & NY) |
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1824
Federal government is in charge of interstate commerce |
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Erie Canal
waterway between Erie Canal and Hudson River |
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1825
commerce, transportation and national economy |
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2nd Great Awakening
religious revival |
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1830s
transcendentalism, improvement |
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Nat Turner Rebellion
slave rebellion |
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1831
Important example of slaves rebelling. Bigger militia, tighter slave control. |
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Trail of Tears
Jackson relocates Nat. Americans |
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1831
example of expansion, increased tension |
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Ordinance of Nullification
on tariff law |
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1832
States don't have to collect taxes if they don't want to. |
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Texas War for Independence
TX v. Mex, want TX independent, over slavery |
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1835
Texas wins independence |
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Oregon Trail
trail to the west (Oregon) |
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1843
commerce, transportation and national economy |
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Mexican-American War
war between American and Mexico |
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1846
war over slavery and territory |
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Gold Discovered
Sutter's Mill |
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1848
expansion of San Francisco |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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1853
Rallying cry of abolitionists, revealed truth on slavery |
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
residents of KS and NE vote on state standing on free/slave |
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Pottawatomie Massacre
John Brown kills 5 Southern settlers |
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1856
drives wedge between N & S |
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Dred Scott
Dred Scott's slave condition |
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1857
Slaves are property, Fed. gov can't eliminate property, territories have no say whether it's slave or free |
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Harper's Ferry
John Brown raids armory |
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1859
drives wedge between N & S |
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Civil War
War between N & S |
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1860
North wins, slavery gone |
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Emancipation Proclamation
"abolished" slavery |
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1863
Gave North something to fight for, kept other countries out |
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