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English Common Law
the body of law developed in England primarily from judicial decisions based on custom and precedent, unwritten in statute or code, and constituting the basis of the English legal system and of the system in all of the United States except Louisiana. -
Jan 15, 1215
Magna Carta
A charter of liberties to which the English barons forced King John to give his assent in June 1215 at Runnymede. 2. : a document constituting a fundamental guarantee of rights and privileges. -
Jan 1, 1517
Protestant Reformation
The Protestant Reformation was the 16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent in the modern era. -
Puritans
a member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England under Elizabeth as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship. -
Navagation Acts
Navigation Acts were a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships for trade between Britain and its colonies. They began in 1651 and ended 200 years later. -
Two Treaties of Goverment
Two treaties of Goverment ia a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise attacks patriarchalism in the form of sentence-by-sentence refutation of Robert Filmer's Patriarcha, while the Second Treatise outlines Locke's ideas for a more civilized society based on natural rights and contract theory. -
Salem Witch Trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. -
George Washington
Was the 1st President of the United States and the comander of chief in the contential army, One of the founding fathers of the United States. Died December 14, 1799. -
John Adams
a remarkable political philosopher, served as the second President of the United States (1797-1801), after serving as the first Vice President under President George Washington. -
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was an American lawyer and Founding Father, and principal author of the Declaration of Independence. He was elected the second Vice President of the United States and the third President. He was the 3rd preidnet of the United States. -
Salutary Neglcet
is an American history term that refers to an unofficial and long-term 17th & 18th-century British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep American colonies obedient to England. -
James Madison
America's fourth President (1809-1817), made a major contribution to the ratification of the Constitution by writing The Federalist Papers, along with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay. In later years, he was referred to as the "Father of the Constitution." -
French and Indian War
A war (1756-1763) fought by Britain against the French and their Native American allies, part of the conflict known in Europe as the Seven Years' War. Britain, emerging victorious, took possession of the French territories in Canada and became the dominant colonial power in North America. -
Commitee of Correspondence
The Committees of Correspondence were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution created by Samuel Adams in 1772 Massaschuetts -
Land ordiance act of 1785
Te Land of Ordiance was the effort of a five-person committee led by Thomas Jefferson. The ordinance established a systematic and ubiquitous process for surveying, planning and selling townships in the western frontier. -
Conneticut Comromise
was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States -
3/5 compromise
All slaves would count as 3/5 of a person -
Bill of rights
the first ten amendments to the US Constitution, ratified in 1791 and guaranteeing such rights as the freedoms of speech, assembly, and worship. -
Nativism
Nativism is the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants. -
Marshall Cout
The Marshall Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States between 1801 and 1835, when John Marshall served as Chief Justice. -
Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory (828,000 square miles) by the United States from France in 1803. -
Lewis and Clark
Meriwether Lewis was an American explorer, who with William Clark led the Lewis and Clark Expedition through the uncharted American interior to the Pacific Northwest in 1804–06. -
Abraham Lincoln
Was the 16th president of the United States during thre English Civil war. He helped abolish slavery in the south. He was assinated on April 15, 1865. -
War of 1812
The War of 1812 was a military conflict, lasting for two and a half years, fought by the United States of America against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies, and its Native American allies. -
James Monroe
James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States. Monroe was the last president who was a Founding Father of the United States and the last president from the Virginian dynasty and the Republican Generation -
Missouri Compromise
An act of Congress (1820) by which Missouri was admitted as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Purchase north of latitude 36°30′N, except for Missouri. -
Ulysses S Grant
s commanding general, Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. As an American hero, Grant was later elected the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877), working to implement Congressional Reconstruction and to remove the vestiges of slavery. -
Monroe Doctrine
It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention. -
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams was an American statesman who served as the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. He also served as a diplomat, a Senator and member of the House of Representatives. -
Protective Tarrifs
A duty imposed on imports to raise their price, making them less attractive to consumers and thus protecting domestic industries from foreign competition. -
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837, seeking to act as the direct representative of the common man. A major general in the War of 1812, Jackson became a national hero when he defeated the British at New Orleans. -
Jacksonian Democrats
Jacksonian democracy is the political movement during the Second Party System toward greater democracy for the common man symbolized by American politician Andrew Jackson and his supporters. -
Whigs
The Whig Party was a political party active in the middle of the 19th century in the United States of America -
Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren was the eighth President of the United States (1837-1841), after serving as the eighth Vice President and the tenth Secretary of State, both under President Andrew Jackson. While the country was prosperous when the "Little Magician" was elected, less than three months later the financial panic of 1837 punctured the prosperity. -
Willam Henry Harrison
William Henry Harrison was the ninth President of the United States, an American military officer and politician, and the last President born as a British subject. He was also the first president to die in office. -
John Tyler
John Tyler was the tenth President of the United States. He was elected vice president on the 1840 Whig ticket with William Henry Harrison, and became president after his running mate's death in April 1841 -
Mexican War
A war (1846-1848) between the United States and Mexico, resulting in the cession by Mexico of lands now constituting all or most of the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. -
Free Soil Party
The Free Soil Party was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections, and in some state elections. Opposed the extension of slavery in the Territories not yet admitted to statehood. -
Millard Filmore
Millard Fillmore was the 13th President of the United States, the last Whig president, and the last president not to be affiliated with either the Democratic or Republican parties -
Underground railroad
Underground Railroad was a network of houses and other places that abolitionists used to help slaves escape to freedom in the northern states or in Canada before the Civil War. -
Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States. Pierce was a northern Democrat who saw the abolitionist movement as a fundamental threat to the unity of the nation -
Radical Reconstruction
The Radical Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from about 1854 (before the American Civil War) until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. -
Tenant Farming
A person who farms the land of another and pays rent with cash or with a portion of the produce. 1855- 1860 -
James K Polk
James Knox Polk was the 11th President of the United States. Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He later lived in and represented Tennessee -
Jamws Buchanan
James Buchanan, Jr. was the 15th President of the United States, serving immediately prior to the American Civil War.He remains the only President to be elected from Pennsylvania and to remain a lifelong bachelor. -
Secession
The withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War. -
Abraham Linoln
was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He was comander of cheif during the English Civil war and established the Emancipation Proclamation. -
Civil War
War between one nation in the United States. The northen states and the southern states. The southern states secced from the north because they did not agree with presidency of Abraham Lincoln. They attacked the north at Fort Summer and on April 12, 1861 -
Homestead Act
Signed into law in May 1862, the Homestead Act opened up settlement in the western United States, allowing any American, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land. By the end of the Civil War, 15,000 homestead claims had been established, and more followed in the postwar years. Eventually, 1.6 million individual claims would be approved; nearly ten percent of all government held property for a total of 420,000 square miles of territory. -
CarpetBeggers
A person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction. -
Sharecropping
Sharecropping is a system 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. -
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. Johnson became president as he was vice president at the time of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination -
13 Amendment
The 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States and 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.". -
15 Amendment
The 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits states from denying voting rights to citizens based on race, color or previous condition of servitude (meaning slavery). -
Protective Tarrifs
A duty imposed on imports to raise their price, making them less attractive to consumers and thus protecting domestic industries from foreign competition. -
Maifest Destiny
the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, often referred to as Teddy or TR, was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, and reformer who served as the 26th President of the United States, from 1901 to 1909. -
KKK
a secret organization in the southern U.S., active for several years after the Civil War, which aimed to suppress the newly acquired powers of blacks and to oppose carpetbaggers from the North, and which was responsible for many lawless and violent proceedings.