US 10 EXAM PROJECT

First Political Parties-1790's

• The two major parties was the Democrats and the Republicans. 
• Alexander Hamilton Federalist Party supported a strong central
• Thomas Jefferson Democratic-Republican Party favored a small central
• government with with limited powers. 

Marshall Court-1801-1835

• MARSHALL COURT ruled that the power to tax involves the power to
• destroy.
• Under the Supremacy Clause no state had the right to destroy or in any way
• nullify what Congress had enacted.
• It was the Supreme Court of the United States. 

Spoils System-1830

• The name came from the ancient wartime saying,
• To the victor belong the spoils of war.
• Andrew Jackson fired 20% of federal officials and put his
• supporters that helped him during the election of  1828.

Indian removal Act-1830

• Indian Removal Act was a law that was passed by Congress.
• The act was strongly supported by non-native people of the South
• that were eager to gain access to lands inhabited by the Five Civilized.
• They push Indians out of their homelands and forced their removal to land
• set aside as Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma.

Jacksonian Democracy-1824-1840

• Andrew Jackson was elected president as the champion of the common
• man.
• As the voting rights expanded the United States became more democratic.
• Jacksonian democracy promoted the strength of the presidency and executive 
• branch at the expense of Congress.

Manifest Destiny-1845

• Manifest Destiny was the widely held belief in the United States that
• American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent.
• Manifest Destiny provided the rhetorical tone for the largest acquisition
• of U.S. territory.
• Democrats in the 1840's to justify the war with Mexico.

Mexican-American War-1846-1848

• James K. Polk was the Eleventh U.S. president. 
• Henry Clay was Unsuccessful Whig candidate against Polk in 1844 election.
• In 1848, United States and Mexico sign Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

Seneca Falls Convention-1848

• It goal was equality under the law for both men and woman.
• Woman's movement was launched that would last for decades.
• They drafted a statement that was called Declaration of Sentiments that 
• was based on Declaration of Independence.

Factory System-1814

• Francis Cabot Lowell was the father of Factory System.
• Lowell used series of machines, housed into one building, turned cotton 
• into finished cloths.
• He hired young woman from local farm to tend his machines. 

Sectionalism-

• They was a strong attachment to regional interests, had became
• a major issue in American politics.

Missouri Compromise-

• The 1820 compromise banned slavery from much of the Louisiana Territory
• while maintaining the balance of power between slave and free states in
• the Senate.

Compromise of 1850

• Henry Clay hoped this compromise on slavery in the West would please
• everyone.
• Fugitive Slave Law deeply angered many northerners.

views on slavery

• The Civil War that raged across the nation from 1861 to

events leading up to the civil War

• Dred Scott, a slave, was the focus of an 1857 Supreme Court decision
• the angered Northern anti-slavery forces and escalated tensions leading to 

Fugitive Slave Law-

• The return of return of escaped slaves to their owners,
• something slaveholders had been demanding for years.

Uncle Tom's Cabin-

• Harriet Beecher Stowe described the cruelties
• of slavery through the story of a dignified slave named Uncle Tom

Kansas-Nebraska

• They dismayed may Northerners.
• Also made it through Congress.

Republican Party

• Took a firm stand against the Fugitive Slave Law 
• and Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Political

• They had the  right vested on the individual or a group of people to 
• enjoy the benefits of an object.

military leader of the war

• the United States Military Academy at West Point and the United States Naval Academy
• Add another list iat Annapolis created dedicated cadres of professional officers whose
• understanding of military science had profound effect on the conduct of the American Civil
• War.

major battles

• The casualties suffered in the First World War were of a scale
• never before experienced. Great Britain and her Empire lost over 1,000,000 combatant

Appomattox Courthouse

• It is located in the middle of the state about three miles
• once known as Clover Hill - home of the original Old Appomattox Court House

Emancipation Proclamation

• Lincoln issued a proclamation freeing all slaves in the 
• rebellious states.
• Freedom for most slaves did not come until the end of the war.

54th Massachusetts Regiment

• The 54th stormed the Confederate defenses
• at Fort Wagner.