Democracy (1760-1810; 1860- 1910) Jon Hale College of Charleston
Dec 29, 2015
Resistance to Taxation This political cartoon, published
by a British newspaper, shows a tax collector being tarred, feathered, and forced to drink tea by a group of rebellious Bostonians. The Stamp Act, a tax on printed paper, hangs upside down on a tree. The tree also holds a waiting noose. In the background, rebels dump tea (another taxed item) into the harbor. All of this activity demonstrates the Bostonians’ anger at “taxation without representation.”
“Tarred and Feathered and Forced to Drink Tea,” 1774 political cartoon, from the website Freedom: A History of Us, www.pbs.org/historyofus. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division (reproduction number, LC-USZ62-9487 [B&W film copy negative]).
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
William Marbury Appointed by outgoing
President John Adams
Establishes judicial review, to examine congressional acts
Pacific Railroad Act (1862) Provided federal
supported for the transcontinental railroad
Completed May 10, 1869
900 miles of track
Proximity Point, Utah (May 10, 1869)
“The last rail is laid; the last spike driven; the Pacific Railroad is completed. The point of junction is 1086 miles west of the Missouri river and 690 miles east of Sacramento”+ Union Pacific Railroad
Depletion of Buffalo Pre-contact, it is estimated
there were between 15 and 60 million buffalo
By 1870, 1000 buffalo roam the West
24 to 28 Plains tribes use buffalo in 52 different ways food, supplies, war and
hunting implements Causes: Permanent
railroad tracks, depletion of trees for railroad ties and bridges, and decreasing the wild game
Women’s Suffrage Carrie Chapman Catt
(1859-1947) National American
Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Alice Paul (1885-1977) National Women’s Party
(1917) More radical strategies