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1st Continental Congress

discuss colonial response to Coercive Acts; resulted in delcarations against Intolerable Acts & strengthening colonial militia

Abolitionist movement

Anti-slavery movement that grew greatly from 1830 until the Civil War; some abolitionists supported the immediate & complete emancipation, while others promoted working through Congress; major movement leaders included William Lloyd Garrison & Frederick Douglass

Adams-Onis Treaty

Treaty w/ Spain, 1819, got Florida & extended Mexican border to Pacific in exchange for U.S. assumption of $5 million in Spanish debts to U.S. merchants

Agricultural Adjustment Act

Great Depression act, paid farmers to reduce production; hurt tenant farmers

American Federation of Labor

Labor union of smaller craft unions; strikes & collective bargaining; no radical movements

Anti-federalists

group supported limited national government & reserving powers for states

Articles of Confederation

1st governing document of U.S., allowed for Congress w/ 1 house & limited national powers, reserved power ot tax, raise armies & regulate trade for the states; too weak & called for change after Shays' Rebellion

Atlantic Charter

FDR & Churchill post WWII statement based on national self-determination & FDR's four freedoms

Bacon's Rebellion

disagreement over Native American policy

Barbary War

1st major US overseas conflict; naval forces battled ships in Mediterranean 1801-1805

Battle of the Bulge

major battle by german forces to push allies back but unsuccessful

Bleeding Kansas

Tense/violent situation in Kansas over slavery

Bull Run

2 major battles in Civil War; 1st showed southern strength & 2nd propelled south on unsuccessful invasion of north

Camp David Accords

Agreements btwn Egypt & Israel under Carter ; his greatest foreign policy achievement

Civil Rights Act of 1957

protect AAs voting rights

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Equal Employment

Clayton Antitrust act

strengthened Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Compromise of 1850

legislation proposed by Clay to ease sectional tensions over slavery; admitted CA as free, pop sov for other territories acquired from Mexico & strict Fugitive Law

Compromise of 1877

End federal military presence in South in exchange for granting Hayes necessary Electoral College votes; end of reconstruction

Eisenhower Doctrine

Eisenhower's foreign policy support military force against communist in Midle East

Election of 1860

Presidential election, Lincoln winning; seen by many southerners as proof that North planned to end slavery

Enlightenment

emphasized reason

Fair Deal

Truman's agenda; raised min wage & expanded old age benefits

Fourteen Points

Wilson's plan for end of WWI, called for open peace treaties, free trade/freedom of the seas, self determination, League of Nations

Free Soil Party

prevent expansion of slavery

Freeport Doctrine

people of a territory can prevent slavery from existing by refusing laws that protect it

Gadsden Purchase

southern New Mexico & Arizona purchased from Mexico

Great Awakening

religious revivalism; stronger personal connection w/ faith

Great Compromise

compromise between VA & NJ plans; alotted two houses for federal authority; shared representation in senate & house based on pop

Great Society

Johnson's program to improve poverty, elderly conditions

greenbacks

Union-issued paper currency not backed by gold used uring Civil War

Harlem Renaissance

African American arts, literature, music & thought in NY

Iran-Contra Scandal

Scandal over illicit sale of U.S. weapons to Iranians & funneling of arms profits to Nicaraguan contras

Jay's Treaty

Treaty w/ Britain, 1794, ease trade & sea conflicts over impressment

Kansas-Nebraska Act

legislation organizaing midwest into Kansas & Nebraska; repeased Missouri compromise barring slavery north of missouri's southern border & insitute pop sov

Kellogg-Briand Pact

treaty signed by post major nations in 1928 renouncing war & outlawing agression against foreign powers; lacked enforcement

KY & VA Resolutions

Written in opposition to Alien & Sedition Acts; declared states had authority to nullify federal laws they believed to be unconstitutional

Missouri Compromise

MO as slave & Maine as free; barred expansion of slavery in Louisiana territory north of southern border of missouri

National Industrial Recovery Act

New Deal legislation working to stabilize economy by providing fed guidelines for wages, prices, production levels & quotas, granting workers right to unionize

NATO

treaty signed by european powers & north american powers providing self defense in foreign aggression

New Federalism

Nixon administration aimed to increase state level authority

New Freedom

Wilson administration, efforts in banking reform, tariff reduction & anti trust legislation

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

law granting western settlers bill of rights & barring slavery north of ohio river

Oregon Treaty

treaty w/ britain set US -Canda border

Pendelton Act

reformed federal civil service system, instituting series of open, competitive examinations to fill civil service jobs

Pinckney Treaty

got the missisissippi & New Orleans

Platta mendment

gave U.S. control over Cuba & Guantanamo bay

populist party

farmers, urban workers, iddle class; supported coinage of silver, labor reform

Roosevelt Corollary

basically Monroe Doctrine, asserted right of U.S. to intervene in affair sof Latin American nations to prevent European powers from doign so

Tet offensive

major vietcon attack on U.S. & S Vietnam; turned public opinion aagainst war