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| 8359366268 | 3/5 Compromise | In the Constitution, enslaved blacks are counted as 3/5 of a person when calculating population for state taxes owed to federal government and for representation in house of representatives. | 0 | |
| 8359389947 | Bill of Rights | 10 amendments that Federalists promised would be added to Constitution if anti-Federalists would support ratification. | 1 | |
| 8359335089 | Alien & Sedition Acts | Acts that limited free speech on criticism of the government and restricted immigration. Signed by John Adams. |  | 2 |
| 8359410970 | Embargo | Thomas Jefferson made trade with Britain and France illegal to punish them for impressing American sailors and not respecting U.S. neutrality in their war. It backfired and hurt the U.S. economy more than Europe's. |  | 3 |
| 8359263405 | Marbury v Madison | Supreme Court Case that created judicial review, first major case under Marshall Court. |  | 4 |
| 8359263407 | McCulloch v Maryland | Supreme Court Case under Marshall. Maryland attempted to tax the B.U.S. This case ruled in favor of the Federal Bank, against Maryland. |  | 5 |
| 8359263421 | Monroe Doctrine | A US foreign policy regarding Latin American countries. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South American would be viewed as acts of aggression. It directed a clear warning towards all foreign countries telling them to leave the US alone and to stop settling within the country's borders. (1823) |  | 6 |
| 8359432770 | Fugitive Slave Act | Requires northern free states to return escaped slaves to their owners. Was part of the constitution and was strengthened later as part of the Compromise of 1850. |  | 7 |
| 8359263420 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Treaty that ended the war between the US and Mexico, the war started with the US annexation of Texas and was the result of a disagreement over where the Mexican-American border should be. the US received Mexican territory and it raised the question of slavery in the new territory. |  | 8 |
| 8359475677 | Kansas-Nebraska Act | Act allowed for popular sovereignty in western territories, invalidated the Missouri Compromise. The effects of this act was Bleeding Kansas. |  | 9 |
| 8360307025 | Dred Scott | Court case that ruled that enslaved blacks are not citizens and do not have the right to freedom even living in a free state/ territory. |  | 10 |
| 8359507103 | Emancipation Proclamation | President Lincoln declared slaves free in all rebel states. |  | 11 |
| 8359303275 | 13th Amendment | X Amendment, ended slavery in the United States | 12 | |
| 8359263424 | 14th Amendment | X Amendment, granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the US, which included former slaves. It defined citizenship within the US (1868). |  | 13 |
| 8359263425 | 15th Amendment | X Amendment, This stated that the rights of citizens to vote should not bed denied by the US in race or color. It allowed African American men to vote, though poll taxes and literacy tests still prevented them from doing so. (1870) |  | 14 |
| 8359517911 | black codes | laws were passed at the local and state level to continue discrimination based on race during Reconstruction. | 15 | |
| 8359263426 | Proclamation of 1763 | Issued by King George III following Great Britain's victory in the French & Indian War. It forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. It organized Britain's empire and stabilized relations with Native Americans through trade, settlement, and land purchases. |  | 16 |
| 8359263427 | Stamp Act | An act of the Parliament of Great Britain that taxed all printed materials and legal documents. It helped British troops who were stationed in North America, as the taxes went to their benefit. This angered the colonists. It was considered the last straw, leading to the Revolution. (1765) |  | 17 |
| 8359263430 | Intolerable Acts | A series of laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party intending to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance. It was a wake up call for the colonies. The Boston harbor closed. England took over all governmental activities. (1774) |  | 18 |
| 8359263428 | Northwest Ordinance | It created the Northwest territory from lands beyond the Appalachian Mountains, between Canada and the Great Lakes. Rather than the expansion of existing states and their established sovereignty, it establish admission for new states. (1787) |  | 19 |
| 8359263445 | Tariff of Abominations | Southern nick-name for a protective tariff passed by the U.S. Congress in 1828; it was the highest tariff in U.S. peacetime and its goal was to protect industry in the northern United States from competing European goods by increasing the prices of European products. Caused the nullification crisis. |  | 20 |
| 8359263429 | Compromise of 1850 | This admitted California as a free state while it also created fugitive slave laws to capture escaped slaves. It created a way for slaves to not be able to go to the North and be free. The North had to help the South. |  | 21 |
| 8359263431 | Missouri Compromise | It involved primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories. It prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the southern Missouri border. It became precedent for settling subsequent North and South disagreements over slavery and duty issues. (1820) |  | 22 |
| 8359263440 | Indian Removal Act | Act that led to the Trail of Tears and the Seminole Wars. Was signed into law by Andrew Jackson in 1830; strongly supported in the South where states were eager to gain access to lands occupied by the Five Civilized Tribes. |  | 23 |
| 8359558280 | Dawes Act | Act abolished Indian governments, divided up communal lands and created individual private property. This ended tribal land titles |  | 24 |
| 8359634700 | Homestead Act | encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land |  | 25 |
