Democracy (1760-1810; 1860-1910)

Jon Hale

College of Charleston

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