Anne HutchinsonA Puritan woman who was well learned that disagreed with the Puritan Church in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her actions resulted in her banishment from the colony, and later took part in the formation of Rhode Island. She displayed the importance of questioning authority.
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Dutch colonizationFur trade and other economic reasons
Great societyAn extension of the New Deal: War on Poverty
Office of Economic Opportunity, Medicare, Medicaid, immigration act
Debates over moneyFarmers wanted to print more money so they could more easily pay back their debts, but the bankers and the wealthy wanted to keep the U.S. Dollar on the gold standard
Assembly line
PhilippinesTeddy Roosevelt sent an American fleet to attack the Spanish colony. They staged a ground invasion in collaboration with Filipino nationalists and overthrew the Spanish, before buying it from them
Sherman antitrust act
Phyllis SchlaflyOrganized the conservative opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment
George WhitefieldA staunch Calvinist who began preaching outdoors in England. He moved to the colonies in 1740. In 2 years he was able to speak to over a quarter of the American population
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Shay’s rebellionFarmers had to take debt because they weren’t getting paid. Their land was being repossessed so they rebelled and closed the courts. They used Republican ideals to justify it.
Andrew CarnegiePioneered vertical integration, where one company controls every stage of the manufacturing process
GI BillGave WW2 veterans the opportunity to go to college for free (paid by the Government)
Kansas-Nebraska actdivided Nebraska territory into 2 sections, Kansas and Nebraska. Put slavery to a vote in each new state. Effectively overturned the Missouri compromise!
Spanish colonizationColo
Roger WilliamsA dissenter who clashed with the Massachusetts Puritans over separation of church and state and was banished in 1636, after which he founded the colony of Rhode Island to the south
Jackson Vetos Second Bank of the U.S.Supported by Henry Clay and created under the American system
Led a small raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. His goal was to arm the southern slave population and incite a slave rebellion
Politics was very negative with the rise of political parties, political violence, and deep political divisions
Gospel of wealthAndrew Carnegie argued that those with wealth should invest it into society
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Puritan cultureFamily seen as foundation of social fabric
Expansion of democracy
Facilitated the migration of black people to africa
French colonization
First great awakening
Korematsu vs. U.S.Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
He favored removing them to reservations beyond the Mississippi if they refused to "civilize" themselves. Some unified and began violently resisting with help from the British
NAWSA
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Tallmadge amendmentWould prohibit slavery in Missouri if it was admitted into the union
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1920's economic boomThe standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Shay’s rebellion
National union open to ALL laborers. Wanted to end child labor and end trusts
Decolonization
Settlement houses
Kansas-Nebraska actdivided Nebraska territory into 2 sections, Kansas and Nebraska. Put slavery to a vote in each new state. Effectively overturned the Missouri compromise!
Labor unions
Split within the Democratic-Republican partyExpansive view of federal power & loose constructionists
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Thomas GageThe new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws
Fries rebellionFarmers 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.
The areas where both colonists and native people would trade and coexist
Jim Crow lawsForced segregation and prevented african americans from exercising their civil liberties
The Albany conferenceMeeting between leaders of 7 colonies to create a plan for joint defense and administration of the colonies. "Join or die"
Manifest destinyAmericans believed they had a God-given right to have a nation from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
7 years war
N.A.A.C.P
Puritan culture
First political parties
Indentured ServantsColonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
Pure food and drug act
Stamp actAll paper products sold in the colonies had to be stamped and pay a small tax. It spurred on revolutionary ideals.
Many northerners opposed the expansion of slavery, and abolitionists despised the law. There were often riots when Southerners would try to bring back a runaway slave.
Sherman antitrust actMade monopolizing an entire market illegal
Red scare
Ambassador from France came to America to encourage Americans to side with the French. Washington declared neutrality, but the ambassador remained in America to not get beheaded back home.
Common senseAttacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.
Voting Rights Act of 1965Prohibited racial discrimination in the voting booth
Attitudes towards GermanyWanted to keep Germany weak so they wouldn't pose a threat.
Wanted to extract reparations for all the damage Germany had caused