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Dawes act
Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Self-determination Act of 1975
Nixon's appointments (who he'd assumed who be conservative) ruled in favor of abortion rights
White collar workers
All the industrialization created a new type of work for managers and administrators who ran the factories instead of working in them
Established the western hemisphere as a U.S.-dominated sphere of influence without European involvement.
Panic of 1819
First major recession in the United States
Pure food and drug act
Madison re-imposed the embargo on Britain because they continued to attack American ships
The New Jersey plan
The plan for representation favored by small states. It called for 1 house of Congress with each state getting equal representation.
Baker vs. Carr
French revolution
Panic of 1893
A severe economic depression during which nearly a quarter of railroads declared bankruptcy. This caused bankers to buy up many of the railroads, leading to consolidation.
War hawkes
Election of 1824
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.
British colonization
Economic and religious liberty
Bacons rebellion
British settlers wanted more land for growing tobacco and they stole it from the natives. The natives retaliated, which infuriated the colonists. When Governor William Berkeley refused to send troops, Nathanial Bacon led angry poor farmers on an attack against the natives, and then on farms owned by Governor Berkeley.
Bring in Missouri and Maine at the same time to keep the balance of power. Also limited slavery above a certain latitude.
Wilmot Proviso
An amendment to a law in congress that stipulated that any land gained in the Mexican-American war wouldn't be ineligible for the spread of slavery. Symbolized the growing tension over westward expansion and slavery.
Farmers 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.
Americans had been settling in Texas since the 1820s. The southerners outnumbered actual Mexicans and had brought their slaves. The Mexican government outlawed slavery and mandated catholicism.
Thomas Gage
1920's politics
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
Interstate commerce act
Required railroad rates to be reasonable and just, and established a federal commission to oversee the railroads
Teddy Roosevelt progressivism
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
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.
Haymarket square riot
Anarchists set off a bomb during a Knights of labor protest in Chicago for an 8-hour workweek. Many people began to see the labor movement as violent and radical
Tammany Hall
The most famous political machine organized and met the needs of immigrants and the poor in exchange for votes
French colonization
Expanding the fur trade, later plantations in Louisiana
