Midterm p2 Flashcards
Morrill Land Grant Act
granted each state 30,000 acres of western land, to be distributed by each senator and representative, and funded the construction of agricultural and mechanical schools.
National Banking Act
a United States federal law that established a system of national charters for banks. It encouraged development of a national currency based on bank holdings of U.S. Treasury securities
New York Draft Riots
a series of violent disturbances in New York City that were the culmination of discontent with new laws passed by Congress to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War.
Nullification Crisis
confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government in 1832–33 over the former’s attempt to declare null and void within the state the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832.
Panic of 1819
financial panic swept across the country. The growth in trade that followed the War of 1812 came to an abrupt halt. Unemployment mounted, banks failed, mortgages were foreclosed, and agricultural prices fell by half. Investment in western lands collapsed.
Panic of 1837
financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major depression, which lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices, and wages went down, westward expansion was stalled, unemployment went up, and pessimism abounded.
Panic of 1857
a financial panic in the United States caused by the declining international economy and over-expansion of the domestic economy
Peggy Eaton Affair
a political scandal involving members of President Andrew Jackson’s Cabinet and their wives, from 1829 to 1831.
Philadelphia Convention
a radical decision to throw out the Articles of Confederation and start fresh developing a framework for strengthening the power of the United States’ federal government.
Pickneys Treaty
It resolved territorial disputes between the two countries and granted American ships the right to free navigation of the Mississippi River as well as duty-free transport through the port of New Orleans, then under Spanish control.
Plessy v. Ferguson
upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
Railroad Building
Reconstruction Acts
Report on Manufacturing
Report on Public Credit
Rush-Bagot Treaty
Second Bank of the US
Second Great Awakening
Seneca Falls Convention
Shays Rebellion
Shermans March to the Sea
Specie Circular
Tariff of Abominations
Ex Parte Milligan
