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| massachusetts farmer daniel shays and 1200 compatriots, seeking debt relief through issuance of [a[er cirrency and lower taxes, attempted to prevent the courts from seizing property from indebted farmers |
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| Violent Protest by western Pennsylvania farmers against the federal excise tax on whiskey, 1794 |
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| Philosophy if a small group of mid 19th century New England writers and thinkers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Margaret Fuller; they stressed personal and intellectual self reliance |
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| Andrew Jackson signed a law that permitted the negotiation of traties to obtain the Indians land in exchange for their relocation to what would eventually become Oklahoma |
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| Perfectionist religious groups which practiced "complex marriage" under leader John Humphery |
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| Court Case that ruled that congress cuold not prohibit slavery in the territories, on the grounds that such a prohibition would violate the fifth amendment rights of slaveholders, and no black person could be a citizen of the united states. |
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| first land engagement of the civil war took place on july 21,1861, virgina, at which union troops quickly retreated |
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| opponents of the constitution who saw it as a limitation on individuals and states; there additions led to the bill of rights |
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| opponents of the constitution who saw it as a limitation on individuals and states; there additions led to the bill of rights |
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| opponents of the constitution who saw it as a limitation on individuals and states; there additions led to the bill of rights |
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