Period 4- APUSH

By Dioskairy Pichardo
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    The Second Great Awakening

    Calvinism began a counterattack against liberal views. The Second Great Awakening began among educated people such as Reverend Timothy Dwight, president of Yale college in Connecticut. Campus revivals motivated a generation of young men to become evangelical preachers. In the revivals, successful preachers were audience centered and easily understood by the uneducated; they spoke about the opportunity for salvation to all, seemed attuned to the democratization of American society.

  • The Louisiana Purchase

    The Louisiana Territory encompassed a large and largely unexplored tract of western land through which the Mississippi and Missouri rivers flowed. At the mouth of the Mississippi lay the territory's most valuable property in terms of commerce-the port of New Orleans. For many years, Louisiana and New Orleans had been claimed by Spain. But in 1800, the French military and political leader Napoleon secretly forced Spain to give the Territory back to France. Though by 1803, he lost interest.

  • MARBURY V. MADISON

    The first major case decided by Mar­shall put him in direct conflict with President Jefferson. He ordered Secretary of State James Madison not to deliver the commissions to those Federalists judges. One of Adams' "mid­night appointments," William Marbury, sued for his commission. The case of Marbury v. Madison went to the Supreme Court in 1803. Marshall ruled that Marbury had a right to his commission according to the Judiciary Act passed by Congress in 1789.

  • The Missouri Compromise

    If Missouri became a slave state, it would tip the political balance. The Tallmadge Amendment: The amendment called for prohibiting the further introduction of slaves into Missouri and requiring the children of Missouri slaves to be emancipated at the age of 25. If adopted it would have led to gradual elimination of slavery. Clay’s Proposals: Admit Missouri as a slave holding state, Admit Maine as a free state, and prohibit slavery in the rest of Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36° 30’.

  • Indian Removal Act

    Jackson compelled the American Indians to leave their traditional homelands and go west to the Mississippi. In the 1830s, he signed law, the Indian removal act, which forced the resettlement of many thousands of American Indians. The Supreme Court ruled in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia that Cherokees were not a foreign nation with the right to sue in a federal court. But in a second case, Worcester v. Georgia the high court ruled that the laws of Georgia had no force within Cherokee territory.

  • The Radical Abolitionist Movement

    William Lloyd Garrison and The Liberator, an event that marked the start of this movement. Garrison advocated immediate abolition of slavery in every state and territory without compensating the slave owners. Garrison and other abolitionists founded the American Antislavery Society. Garrison stepped up his attacks by condemning and burning the Constitution as a pro-slavery document. He argued for "no Union with slaveholders'' until they repented for their sins by freeing their slaves.