american history vocab by Jose Martinez _ Student - EastWakeHS https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw en-us 2019-04-05 14:21:35 UTC 2019-05-14 19:25:58 UTC hello@padlet.com Era of good feelings jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350342665 The Era of Good Feelings marked a period in the political history of the United States that reflected a sense of national purpose and a desire for unity among Americans in the aftermath of the War of 1812.

]]> 2019-04-10 13:27:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350342665 Panic of 1819 jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350346246 Panic of 1819. In 1819, the impressive post-War of 1812 economic expansion ended. Banks throughout the country failed; mortgages were foreclosed, forcing people out of their homes and off their farms. Falling prices impaired agriculture and manufacturing, triggering widespread unemployment.

]]> 2019-04-10 13:34:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350346246 Missouri compromise jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350348188 The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. At the time, the United States contained twenty-two states, evenly divided between slave and free.]]> 2019-04-10 13:38:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350348188 industrial revolution jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350350512 The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Europe and the US, in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.

]]> 2019-04-10 13:42:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350350512 market revolution jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350353871 The Market Revolution, which occurred in 19th century United States, is a historical model which argues that there was a drastic change of the economy that disoriented and coordinated all aspects of the market economy in line with both nations and the world.]]> 2019-04-10 13:48:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350353871 american system jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350355160 This "System" consisted of three mutually reinforcing parts: a tariff to protect and promote American industry; a national bank to foster commerce; and federal subsidies for roads, canals, and other "internal improvements" to develop profitable markets for agriculture.

]]> 2019-04-10 13:51:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350355160 Henry clay jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350356565 Henry Clay Sr. was an American attorney and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives, served as 7th speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and served as the 9th U.S. secretary of state.]]> 2019-04-10 13:53:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350356565 Eli whitney jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350357650 Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy of the Antebellum South.]]> 2019-04-10 13:55:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350357650 Lowell m.a jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350360315 a town in Massachusetts]]> 2019-04-10 14:01:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350360315 Erie canal jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350364091 The Erie Canal is a canal in New York, United States that is part of the east–west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System. Originally, it ran 363 miles from where Albany meets the Hudson River to where Buffalo meets Lake Erie]]> 2019-04-10 14:08:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350364091 Monroe doctrine jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350365656 a principle of US policy, originated by President James Monroe in 1823, that any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US.]]> 2019-04-10 14:11:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350365656 Adams onis treaty jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350366608 The Adams–Onís Treaty (Spanish: Tratado de Adams-Onís) of 1819, also known as the Transcontinental Treaty, the Florida Purchase Treaty, or the Florida Treaty, was a treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain.
Signed: February 22, 1819
Type: Bilateral treaty
Effective: February 22, 1821]]> 2019-04-10 14:13:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350366608 alexis de tocqueville jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350368803 Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, Viscount de Tocqueville was a French diplomat, political scientist and historian. He was best known for his works Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution.]]> 2019-04-10 14:16:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350368803 transcendentalism jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350369437 an idealistic philosophical and social movement which developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism. Influenced by romanticism, Platonism, and Kantian philosophy, it taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and its members held progressive views on feminism and communal living. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were central figures.]]> 2019-04-10 14:18:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350369437 Hudson River School of Landscape Art jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350370273 The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism. Wikipedia]]> 2019-04-10 14:19:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350370273 Utopian movement jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350372573 The Utopian Movement was a period during American History when people with fundamental opinions began to build their own perfect communities or societies and they possessed highly suitable or perfect qualities. ... More than 100,000 individuals formed Utopian communities in an effort to create perfect societies]]> 2019-04-10 14:24:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350372573 temperance movement jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350764868 The temperance movement is a social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages. Participants in the movement typically criticize alcohol intoxication or promote complete abstinence (teetotalism), with leaders emphasizing alcohol's negative effects on health, personality, and family life.

]]> 2019-04-11 13:37:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350764868 Dorothea Dix/Penitentiary Reform jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350767753 2019-04-11 13:43:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350767753 Horace Mann/Education Reform jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350768022 Horace Mann & Education Reform: Contributions & Philosophy. Horace Mann is one of the most well-known reformers of education in the United States. He is often credited with leading the Common School Movement, which helped to lay the framework for a publicly funded education system]]> 2019-04-11 13:43:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350768022 Seneca Falls Convention jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350769105 The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". Held in Seneca Falls, New York, it spanned two days over ]]> 2019-04-11 13:45:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350769105 Lucretia Mott jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350770842 Lucretia Mott was a U.S. Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer. She had formed the idea of reforming the position of women in society when she was amongst the women excluded from the World Anti-Slavery Convention in 1840.]]> 2019-04-11 13:48:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350770842 Elizabeth Cady Stanton jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350771707 Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement.]]> 2019-04-11 13:49:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350771707 Second Great Awakening jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350772578 The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States. The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800 and, after 1820, membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations whose preachers led the movement.]]> 2019-04-11 13:51:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350772578 Charles Finney/”perfectionism” jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350773280 Charles Grandison Finney. ... Finney was best known as an innovative revivalist during the period 1825–1835 in upstate New York and Manhattan, an opponent of Old School Presbyterian theology, an advocate of Christian perfectionism, and a religious writer.]]> 2019-04-11 13:53:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350773280 Mormons/Joseph Smith jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350773720 Joseph Smith Jr. was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. When he was 24, Smith published the Book of Mormon. By the time of his death, 14 years later, he had attracted tens of thousands of followers and founded a religion that continues to the present]]> 2019-04-11 13:54:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/350773720 Compromise of 1850 jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359470123 As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. Furthermore, California entered the Union as a free state and a territorial government was created in Utah.]]> 2019-05-13 13:45:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359470123 Popular Sovereignty/Stephen Douglas jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359471255 Stephen A. Douglas. Stephen A. Douglas (1813-1861) was a U.S. politician, leader of the Democratic Party, and orator who espoused the cause of popular sovereignty in relation to the issue of slavery in the territories before the American Civil War (1861-1865).]]> 2019-05-13 13:47:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359471255 fugitive slave act jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359472562 The Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. ... Abolitionists nicknamed it the "Bloodhound Law", for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves]]> 2019-05-13 13:49:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359472562 underground railroad jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359473994 The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-1800s, and used by African-American slaves to escape into free states, Canada and Nova Scotia with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause]]> 2019-05-13 13:51:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359473994 Kansas-Nebraska Act jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359476750 The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30]]> 2019-05-13 13:54:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359476750 Harriet Beecher Stowe/Uncle Tom’s Cabin jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359477908 Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitudes toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S. and is said to have "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War]]> 2019-05-13 13:56:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359477908 bleeding kansas jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359479509 Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas]]> 2019-05-13 13:58:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359479509 republican party jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359480194 The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States; the other is its historic rival, the Democratic Party. The GOP was founded in 1854 by opponents of the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which had expanded slavery into U.S. territories.]]> 2019-05-13 13:58:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359480194 brooks sumner incident jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359481177 The Caning of Charles Sumner, or the Brooks–Sumner Affair, occurred on May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate when Representative Preston Brooks (D-SC) used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA), an abolitionist, in retaliation for a speech given by Sumner two days earlier in which he fiercely criticized slaveholders, including a relative of Brooks. The beating nearly killed Sumner and it drew a sharply polarized response from the American public on the subject of the expansion of slavery in the United States. It has been considered symbolic of the "breakdown of reasoned discourse"[1] that eventually led to the American Civil War.]]> 2019-05-13 14:00:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359481177 Dred Scott v. Sanford jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359482446 The Caning of Charles Sumner, or the Brooks–Sumner Affair, occurred on May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate when Representative Preston Brooks (D-SC) used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner (R-MA), an abolitionist, in retaliation for a speech given by Sumner two days earlier in which he fiercely criticized slaveholders, including a relative of Brooks. The beating nearly killed Sumner and it drew a sharply polarized response from the American public on the subject of the expansion of slavery in the United States. It has been considered symbolic of the "breakdown of reasoned discourse"[1] that eventually led to the American Civil War.]]> 2019-05-13 14:02:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359482446 Lincoln-Douglas Debates jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359483833 The Lincoln–Douglas debates (also known as The Great Debates of 1858) were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate]]> 2019-05-13 14:04:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359483833 John Brown and Harpers Ferry jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359484994 John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was an effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown's party of 22 was defeated by a company of U.S. Marines, led by First Lieutenant Israel Greene]]> 2019-05-13 14:06:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359484994 Election of 1860 jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359485621 United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election held on Nov. 6, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell]]> 2019-05-13 14:07:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359485621 Secession jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359487222 the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War.]]> 2019-05-13 14:10:36 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359487222 Fort Sumter jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359488327 Fort Sumter is a sea fort in Charleston, South Carolina, notable for two battles of the American Civil War. It was one of a number of special forts planned after the War of 1812, combining high walls and heavy masonry, and classified as Third System, as a grade of structural integrity]]> 2019-05-13 14:12:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359488327 antietam jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359890217 Over 23,000 men fell as casualties in the one-day Battle of Antietam, making it the bloodiest day in American history. The Union victory at Antietam resulted in President Abraham Lincoln issuing his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862]]> 2019-05-14 13:29:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359890217 gettysburg jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359890865 Gettysburg is a borough and town in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It’s known for Gettysburg National Battlefield, site of a turning point in the Civil War, now part of Gettysburg National Military Park. The park also includes the Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center, displaying Civil War artifacts, and Gettysburg National Cemetery, where a memorial marks the site of Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Gettysburg Address]]> 2019-05-14 13:31:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359890865 emancipation of proclamation jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359891447 The Emancipation Proclamation, or Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It changed the federal legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the designated areas of the South from slave to free.]]> 2019-05-14 13:32:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359891447 Writ of Habeas Corpus jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359892734 Habeas corpus is a recourse in law through which a person can report an unlawful detention or imprisonment to a court and request that the court order the custodian of the person, usually a prison official, to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether the detention is lawful]]> 2019-05-14 13:35:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359892734 Copperheads jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359893732 In the 1860s, the Copperheads, also known as Peace Democrats, were a faction of Democrats in the Northern United States of the Union who opposed the American Civil War and wanted an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates]]> 2019-05-14 13:37:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359893732 13 th -15 th Amendments jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359895031 The 13th amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.]]> 2019-05-14 13:40:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359895031 Freedmen’s Bureau jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359896416 The Freedmen's Bureau, formally known as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, was established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War.J]]> 2019-05-14 13:43:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359896416 Lincoln’s 10% Plan jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359897044 The Ten-Percent Plan. Lincoln's blueprint for Reconstruction included the Ten-Percent Plan,which specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters (from the voter rolls for the election of 1860) swore an oath of allegiance to the Union.]]> 2019-05-14 13:44:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359897044 Johnson’s Reconstruction jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359897615 The Ten-Percent Plan. Lincoln's blueprint for Reconstruction included the Ten-Percent Plan,which specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters (from the voter rolls for the election of 1860) swore an oath of allegiance to the Union.]]> 2019-05-14 13:45:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359897615 Johnson’s Impeachment jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359898775 On February 24, 1868 three days after Johnson's dismissal of Stanton, the House of Representatives voted 126 to 47 (with 17 members not voting) in favor of a resolution to impeach the President for high crimes and misdemeanors. ... One week later, the House adopted eleven articles of impeachment against the President.]]> 2019-05-14 13:48:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359898775 Tenure of Office Act jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359900238 The Tenure of Office Act was a United States federal law that was intended to restrict the power of the President of the United States to remove certain office-holders without the approval of the Senate. The law was enacted on March 2, 1867, over the veto of United States President Andrew Johnson]]> 2019-05-14 13:50:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359900238 Civil Rights Act of 1866 jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359900863 The Civil Rights Act of 1866, 14 Stat. 27–30, enacted April 9, 1866, was the first United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law]]> 2019-05-14 13:51:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359900863 Congressional Reconstruction Act of 1867 jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359901492 The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 laid out the process for readmitting Southern states into the Union. The Fourteenth Amendment (1868) provided former slaves with national citizenship, and the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) granted black men the right to vote.]]> 2019-05-14 13:53:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359901492 Military Reconstruction jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359902235 Military Reconstruction. With the Radical Republicans fully in control of Congress after the mid-term elections of 1866, they quickly passed the Military Reconstruction Acts of 1867. These acts divided the south into five military districts.]]> 2019-05-14 13:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359902235 Radical Republicans jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359903278 The Radical Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States from around 1854 (before the American Civil War) until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. ... Radicals led efforts after the war to establish civil rights for former slaves and fully implement emancipation]]> 2019-05-14 13:56:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359903278 Ku Klux Klan jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359904213 The Ku Klux Klan, commonly called the KKK or the Klan, is an American white supremacist hate group. The Klan has existed in three distinct eras at different points in time during the history of the United State]]> 2019-05-14 13:57:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359904213 Enforcement Acts jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359904707 Description
The Enforcement Act of 1870, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1870 or First Ku Klux Klan Act, or Force Act was a United States federal law written to empower the President with the legal authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States.
]]> 2019-05-14 13:58:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359904707 Election 1876/Compromise of 1877 jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359905883 The Compromise of 1877 was an informal, unwritten deal, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era]]> 2019-05-14 14:00:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359905883 Sharecropping jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359906383 Sharecropping is a form of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land. Sharecropping has a long history and there are a wide range of different situations and types of agreements that have used a form of the system.]]> 2019-05-14 14:01:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359906383 Redeemers jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359907126 In United States history, the Redeemers were a political coalition in the Southern United States during the Reconstruction Era that followed the Civil War. Redeemers were the Southern wing of the Bourbon Democrats, the conservative, pro-business faction in the Democratic Party.

]]> 2019-05-14 14:02:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359907126 Scalawags jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359907752 In United States history, scalawags were white Southerners who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party, after the American Civil War. Like the similar term carpetbagger, the word has a long history of use as a slur in Southern partisan debates]]> 2019-05-14 14:03:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359907752 Carpetbaggers jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359908209 In the history of the United States, carpetbagger was a derogatory term applied by former Confederates to any person from the Northern United States who came to the Southern states after the American Civil War; they were perceived as exploiting the local populace]]> 2019-05-14 14:04:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/359908209 Bill of Rights jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/360069289 The United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitutio]]> 2019-05-14 19:07:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/360069289 Judiciary Act of 1798 jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/360069678 The Judiciary Act of 1789, officially titled "An Act to Establish the Judicial Courts of the United States," was signed into law by President George Washington on September 24, 1789. Article III of the Constitution established a Supreme Court, but left to Congress the authority to create lower federal courts as needed]]> 2019-05-14 19:08:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/360069678 Hamilton’s Economic Plan (the 4 points) jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/360070113 The paramount problem facing Hamilton was a huge national debt. He proposed that the government assume the entire debt of the federal government and the states. His plan was to retire the old depreciated obligations by borrowing new money at a lower interest rate]]> 2019-05-14 19:09:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/360070113 Whiskey Rebellion jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/360071892 The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington, ultimately under the command of American Revolutionary war veteran Major James McFarlan]]> 2019-05-14 19:13:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/360071892 Alien and Sedition Act jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/360073070 A series of laws known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by the Federalist Congress in 1798 and signed into law by President Adams. These laws included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote]]> 2019-05-14 19:16:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/360073070 Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/360073883 The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (or Resolves) were political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799, in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. ... The principles stated in the resolutions became known as the "Principles of '98]]> 2019-05-14 19:17:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/360073883 Nullification jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/360074355 Nullification, in United States constitutional history, is a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional with respect to the United States Constitution. The theory of nullification has never been legally upheld by federal courts]]> 2019-05-14 19:18:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/360074355 Democratic-Republican Party jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/360074951 The Democratic-Republican Party was an American political party formed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison around 1792 to oppose the centralizing policies of the new Federalist Party run by Alexander Hamilton, who was Secretary of the Treasury and chief architect of George Washington's administration]]> 2019-05-14 19:20:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/360074951 Federalists Party jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/360075692 The Federalist Party, referred to as the Pro-Administration party until the 3rd United States Congress as opposed to their opponents in the Anti-Administration party, was the first American political party. It existed from the early 1790s to the 1820s, with their last presidential candidate being fielded in 1816]]> 2019-05-14 19:21:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/360075692 Washington’s Proclamation of Neutrality jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/360076048 The Proclamation of Neutrality was a formal announcement issued by U.S. President George Washington on April 22, 1793 that declared the nation neutral in the conflict between France and Great Britain. It threatened legal proceedings against any American providing assistance to any country at war]]> 2019-05-14 19:22:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/360076048 Jay’s Treaty jlmartinez21 https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/360076975 Image result for jay's treaty
The Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, commonly known as the Jay Treaty, and also as Jay's Treaty, was a 1795 treaty between the United States and Great Britain that averted war, resolved issues remaining since the Treaty of Paris of 1783]]> 2019-05-14 19:25:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jlmartinez21/xmg1o1n4ukzw/wish/360076975