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US History I
before 1877
| topic | details |
|---|---|
| 4th president | James Madison |
| 5th president | James Monroe |
| 6th president | John Quincy Adams |
| 7th president | Andrew Jackson |
| 8th president | Martin Van Buren |
| 9th president | William Henry Harrison |
| 10th president | John Tyler |
| Whiskey Rebellion (1791-94) | tax protest in western PA; leader James McFarlane; rebels went home when Washington brought militia; established govt's ability to suppress rebellion |
| Shays' Rebellion (1786-87) | armed uprising in MA in response to debt crisis: returning Rev. War soldiers couldn't pay debts/tax; tried to seize armory; under Articles of Confederation govt couldn't put them down |
| Nat Turner's Rebellion (1831) | uprising of enslaved people in VA: killed 55-65 people, mostly white enslavers; quickly suppressed but led to increased fear by slaveholders |
| Leisler's Rebellion (1689-91) | uprising in New York mirroring the Glorious Revolution; deposed governor appointed by previous (Catholic) king James II; new gov. took control nominally under William and Mary but was ousted by his official replacement and executed |
| King Philip's War (1675-78) | rebellion of Metacom, Wampanoag chief, and other New England Native American allies; huge casualties both sides, villages destroyed; colonists win w/o any help from England |
| First Transcontinental Railroad (built 1863-69) | from IA to CA; Pacific Railroad Act of 1962 established and funded (through sale of bonds) two companies, Western Pacific and Central Pacific |
| XYZ Affair (1797-98) | three French officials demanded bribe to begin talks w/Adams's representatives; led to outrage and talk of war with France, which led to conflict w/Jeffersonians, which led to Alien and Sedition Acts |
| King Cotton | Southern argument for secession: monopoly over cotton will harm industrial North, force England and France to support CSA; instead England benefitted due to stockpiles and production in India etc. rose |
| Texas statehood | Dec 29, 1845 |
| Florida statehood | March 3, 1845 |
| California statehood | Sept 9, 1850 |
| Oregon statehood | Feb 14, 1859 |
| Alaska statehood | Jan 3, 1959 |
| Hawaii statehood | Aug 21, 1959 |
| Pig War (1859) | border dispute over contested islands near Vancouver between US and UK; sparked by killing of a trespassing pig, military escalation but no violence occurred |
| Trent Affair (1861) | US Navy captured Confederate envoys from a British mail ship; US later released them because war with Britain wouldn't be worth it |
| Dorothea Dix | 1800s reformer for better treatment for the mentally ill |
| Sarah Grimke | 1800s abolitionist; also was a Quaker and women's suffrage advocate |
| virtual representation | the idea that members of Parliament represented the interests of all subjects, not just their specific district (British justification for taxation of Colonies w/o representation) |
| Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) | Federalist legislation to oppose Francophile Jeffersonians: increased residency requirement for citizenship (from 5 to 14 yr), allowed deportation, made it a crime to speak against gov't. |
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