Slavery and Abolition Review

The 1803 purchase by the United States of France's Louisiana Territory extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains for $15 million dollars.

• Louisinia Purchase

• Monroe Doctrine

• Proclamation of 1783

• Act of Neutrality

A policy of U.S. opposition to any European interference in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere.

• Truman Doctrine

• Monroe Doctrine

• Marshall Plan

• Roosevelt Corollary

A state's refusal to recognize an act of Congress that it considers unconstitutional.

• Northwest Ordiance

• Proclamation of Ignorance

• Nullification

• Monroe Doctrine

A law, enacted in 1830, that forced Native American peoples east of the Mississippi to move to lands in the West.

• War Powers

• Monroe Doctrine

• Nullification Crisis

• Indian Removal Act

Established the principle of Judicial Review giving the Supreme Court the power to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional

• Marbury v. Madison

• Nullification

• American System

• Temperance

A social movement wanting to reduce the consumption of alcohol in America.

• Abolition

• Temperance

• Suffrage

• 18th Amendment

A conflict fought between the United States and the British, over the British practice of impressement.

• French and Indian War

• American Revolution

• Pequot War

• War of 1812

This social movement wanted to end slavery in the United States.

• Abolition

• Temperence

• Suffrage

• Monroe Doctrine

This system unified the economies of the North, South, and West, passed a new tariff, expanded the U.S. infrastructure, and created the Second Bank of the United States.

• Land Ordiance

• Northwest Passage

• Seneca Falls Conference

• American System

This waterway connected the east coast to the western interior which created a shorter route for goods to travel.

• Panama Canal

• Erie Canal

• Suez Canal

• Mississippi River