Ida B. Wells
Brown v. Board of education
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.
By 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau declared that the frontier was officially settled
Looked to balance national coordination and states rights to prevent tyranny. It featured a unicameral legislature, but the federal government had no money and no military
Assimilationist movement
Wanted to end indian culture by forcing them to assimilate to American values.
sedition act
applied restrictions to immigration and speech in US made it a crime for americans to print, utter, or publish any false, scandalous, malicious writing about the government
Voting rights were expanded to all white males
Direct election of senators
Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
Madison declared war on great Britain
Madison declared war. "Would Americans remain independent or become colonists again?"
British beliefs after 7 years war
Harlem Renaissance
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Homestead act
Gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years.
Declaration of Independence
End of the federalists
The war had revived the struggling party thanks to the anti-war movement. Now that the war was over, federalist support collapsed for good.
Changes in farming
Big stick diplomacy
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Laissez-faire economics
There was an extreme lack of government regulation of the economy at the time
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.
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
Praying towns
Towns in new england where native Americans were forced to live. They we're supposed to be for their protection, but really, it was to steal their land and convert them to christianity
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Thomas Gage
The new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws
Puritan culture
Family seen as foundation of social fabric
2nd Continental Congress
How would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army
How would they pay for it? New currency
Compromise of 1877
Louisiana purchase
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
Decolonization
After WWII there was a massive movement of decolonization throughout the world. Many of these new nations were unstable and needed aid, creating perfect conditions for proxy wars
