A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
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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.
Brown v. Board of educationThe Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were inherently unequal and schools had to be integrated. Overturned plessy v. Ferguson from 1896
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Democratic RepublicansWeak national government
Engel vs. VitaleProhibited prayers in school
Dutch Wedge
Battle of Bunker hillBritish won, but had many casualties. They eventually abandoned Boston
French revolutionAmbassador 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.
Reduced the tax on molasses, but strengthened the court system to end smuggling, making many wealthy smugglers angry.
Hartford Convention
Self-determination Act of 1975Gave Native Americans much greater control over their lands, education, and law enforcement
First political partiesDivisions over neutrality in the French revolution, the Jay treaty, the financial plan, and existing sectionalism created the first political parties.
New york preacher who spoke powerfully with images that common folks could understand.
Praying towns
A conflict between two belligerents where neither engages in conflict with the other
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Workers formed labor unions to have more negotiating power and fight for better pay and working conditions
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Enabled manufacturers to produce huge quantities of steel
The plan for representation favored by small states. It called for 1 house of Congress with each state getting equal representation.
A 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
Compromise of 1850California and New Mexico wanted to enter the union as free states.
Henry Clay created compromise: New Mexico and Utah would vote on slavery, California would be admitted as a free state, Slavery would be banned in Washington D.C., and there would be a new fugitive slave act
Roe v. Wade
In Tennessee it was illegal to teach Darwin's theory of evolution to children. A teacher was arrested for teaching it to his class. In the end, the conviction was thrown out on a technicality.
sedition actapplied 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
Homestead actGave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years.
Cash and CarryRoosevelt persuaded Congress to pass a looser version of the neutrality act that allowed anyone to purchase arms from the U.S. as long as they paid in cash and used their own ships to transport it
British colonizationEconomic and religious liberty
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
JamestownThe first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia by a joint stock company
Assembly lineA new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Jefferson policy on indigenous AmericansHe 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
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.
Gave WW2 veterans the opportunity to go to college for free (paid by the Government)
Wilson created many wartime agencies to coordinate the war. They encouraged Americans to ration resources and food, took control of railroads, and revitalized industries, causing more urban migration.
Argued that the Supreme Court had engaged in a gross abuse of power
When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
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Parliament repealed the stamp act, but enacted the declaratory act, saying they could pass any law they wanted.
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Pequot tribe vs connecticut settlers. Started witht eh murder of 2 english traders. It was part of a larger dispute over trade
Booker T. Washington
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Populist partyWanted to correct the concentration of power held by banks and trusts. Proposed the Omaha platform: Direct election of senators, more referendums, graduated income tax, and an 8-hour workday
Split within the Democratic-Republican partyExpansive view of federal power & loose constructionists
In Tennessee it was illegal to teach Darwin's theory of evolution to children. A teacher was arrested for teaching it to his class. In the end, the conviction was thrown out on a technicality.
Unrestricted submarine warfareGermany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Advocated for women's rights using many of the same tactics as the civil rights movement
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.
Tallmadge amendment
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Jefferson and Hamilton agreed to pass Hamilton's financial plan in exchange for making Washington D.C. the Capital of the country
Jim Crow lawsForced segregation and prevented african americans from exercising their civil liberties
Olive branch petitionCongress wanted king George to intervene on their behalf and end the violence. He didn’t read it.
7 years warA dispute over a french fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
Whigs
nationwide movement of resistance. They began to believe that if they took up the ritualistic ghost dance, that their ancestors would return and drive the Americans out.
John D. RockefellerPioneered horizontal integration, where one company controls every seller in the market.
James k. Polk was a big believer in manifest destiny. He got the Oregon territory and started the Mexican-American River.
N.A.A.C.PSought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
National Grange movement
Government support for railroads
Second great awakeningCamp meetings with huge sermons, christian revival. In contrast to first great awakening, which focused on personal moral reformation, second one emphasized moral reformation of society
Common senseAttacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.