Settlement houses Provided resources to the poor to enrich the neighborhood. Largely led by women
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Dred Scott case A slave in Missouri was taken to live in free Wisconsin, for two years, and he sued for his freedom. The Supreme Court ruled that slaves aren't citizens, and they are property so nobody can be deprived of their property without due process.
Election of 1860 Lincoln campaigned on halting the expansion of slavery. He won without a single Southern electoral vote, prompting the south to realize they no longer any voice in the future of slavery in america
Knights of labor National union open to ALL laborers. Wanted to end child labor and end trusts
Common sense Attacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.
Colony settled by the Pilgrims. It eventually merged with Massachusetts Bay colony.
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Positions on expansion of slavery
The Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were inherently unequal and schools had to be integrated. Overturned plessy v. Ferguson from 1896
Roe v. Wade Nixon's appointments (who he'd assumed who be conservative) ruled in favor of abortion rights
Assimilationist movement Wanted to end indian culture by forcing them to assimilate to American values.
Virtual representation The idea that each representative in parliament represented the empire as a whole, and therefore, the colonies were represented.
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Tenure of Office Act Stopped the president from removing a member of their cabinet without congressional approval (Johnson had tried to remove his secretary of war, who was a radical Republican)
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Lend-Lease Act Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
Connecticut compromise Congress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation.
Immigration Quotas
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
A dispute over a french fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
Age of passion Politics was very negative with the rise of political parties, political violence, and deep political divisions
Disputes over the Texas border sparked the conflict. American troops made it all the way to Mexico city.
The middle ground The areas where both colonists and native people would trade and coexist
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.
Indian Removal Act of 1830
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
Dutch Wedge
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Marbury vs. Madison On his way out of office, John Adams appointed 16 new judges. Jefferson refused to deliver some of these appointments. The Supreme Court established judicial review.
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
Phyllis Schlafly Organized the conservative opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment
Andrew Carnegie Pioneered vertical integration, where one company controls every stage of the manufacturing process
Navigation Acts Colonists were required to ship certain products exclusively to England. These acts made colonists very angry because they were forbidden from trading with other countries.
John D. Rockefeller
Muckrakers Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
After a railroad car manufacturer cut wages, and the union tried to negotiate, the company failed them all. The railroad union decided to not work on any trains with Pullman cars in them. The railroad owners tied the Pullman cars to mail trains in order to get the government to keep them moving, and the union members were jailed
Progressive's concerns Rising power of big businesses Uncertainties in the economy Violence between labor groups and employers Influence of political machines Jim Crow segregation Rights of women
Attacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.
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McCulloch vs Maryland Ruled that federal law trumps state law
Plymouth Colony settled by the Pilgrims. It eventually merged with Massachusetts Bay colony.
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A coalition of free soilers and whigs and northern democrats who's goal was to stop the spread of slavery.
Popham Colony Britian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Whiskey rebellion violent tax protest from 1791-1794. the whiskey was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by president Washington to pay for the war. It unfairly burdened poor farmers west of the Appalachian mountains because they couldn't do business anymore
Jamestown
Anaconda plan Plan to completely cut off the south by blockading southern ports and eventually the Mississippi river
Voting Rights Act of 1965 Prohibited racial discrimination in the voting booth
Lexington and Concorde British troops marched to take a militia's weapons. They we're beaten back and chased back to boston by militia minutemen
Stamp act
Declaratory act
Government support for railroads Railroads supported by the government through money and land grants
France and others wanted their debt paid back, yet the national government didn’t have money. States had individual economies that didn’t collaborate.
Baker vs. Carr Mandated fair congressional districts
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Hartford Convention Federalists met in opposition to the war of 1812, and even argued that new england should suceed.
Panic of 1819 First major recession in the United States
Laissez-faire economics There was an extreme lack of government regulation of the economy at the time
Sedition act of 1918 Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
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Younger Americans who had been born after the revolution, were ardent nationalists, and wanted war with Britain to invade Florida and Canada.
Hamilton's financial plan
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