Monroe doctrine
Established the western hemisphere as a U.S.-dominated sphere of influence without European involvement.
Haymarket square riot
Hamilton's financial plan
Led the protests for fair labor for agricultural workers
Pure food and drug act
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
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Great railroad strike
Railroad companies cut salaries due to a recession. Railroad workers went on strike in 11 states. When the strike got violent, 11 people were killed before President Hayes sent in federal troops
In opposing the stamp act, the colonists said trade should be regulated instead. Parliament passed the townshend acts and began taxing imports and exports.
N.O.W.
Advocated for women's rights using many of the same tactics as the civil rights movement
The embargo
President Jefferson established an embargo on foreign trade in retaliation for Britain and France attacks on American ships.
A young slave organized a rebellion believing that god had told him to do so. He and his followers killed over 50 people
Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
Believed the president should set the legislative agenda for Congress. He led congress to pass a series of laws on consumer protection and enviornmental conservation
Reservation system
1920's politics
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
Effects of the War of 1812
Confirmed ability of a Republican Government to defend itself. Americans completed conquest of everything east of the Mississippi. War broke remaining indigenous power, and white settlers poured in to former native lands.
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Fries rebellion
Farmers in southeast Pennsylvania stopped paying taxes for the larger military. John Fries led a peaceful protest, but John Adams ordered federal troops to stop the protest, and they made mass arrests, assaulted newspaper editors, and almost executed John Fries.
King Philip's war
King Metacomet (King Philip), forges a massive military alliance with other native tribes and attacked Massachusetts in retaliation for the praying towns
The divisions within the Democratic-Republican party led them to choose 4 candidates, while Jackson's populist campaign won the popular vote, no candidate won enough electoral votes. Adams and Clay made a deal and the house voted for Adams.
18th amendment passed
Asiento System
System that took slaves to the New World to work for the Spanish. Required that a tax be paid to the Spanish ruler for each slave brought over.
British impressment
Treaty of New Echota
Wilmot Proviso
A revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s.
Sinking of the Lusitania
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
Stamp act
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Attitudes towards Germany
Wanted to keep Germany weak so they wouldn't pose a threat.
Wanted to extract reparations for all the damage Germany had caused
