The middle groundThe areas where both colonists and native people would trade and coexist
Written by Thomas Jefferson. Declared the colonies an independent country from Britain. Included a statement of intent, list of grievances, and a conclusion that dissolved ties with Britain
Feared that factory owners would use immigrants to keep wages low and to replace striking workers
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
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By 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau declared that the frontier was officially settled
JamestownThe first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia by a joint stock company
EPA
N.A.A.C.PSought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Self-determination Act of 1975Gave Native Americans much greater control over their lands, education, and law enforcement
Anti-Saloon leagueWorked to close down saloons
Prohibited prayers in school
Phyllis SchlaflyOrganized the conservative opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment
Dutch colonization
Praying towns
the idea that women needed to become educated so that they could educate the new generation
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years.
Panic of 1819First major recession in the United States
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
McCulloch vs MarylandRuled that federal law trumps state law
Espionage Act of 1917Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
American federation of labor
Market revolution
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Texan independence
Philadelphia convention12/13 states met to amend the articles of confederation. They eventually decided to draft a new constitution
Expanding the fur trade, later plantations in Louisiana
Franklin D. Roosevelt electedBelieved in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Philippines
Chinese exclusion actNativists successfully pressured Congress to stop the flow of Chinese immigrants who were coming over during the gold rush.
Battle of Vicksburg
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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
Settlement housesProvided resources to the poor to enrich the neighborhood. Largely led by women
Whigs
Stamp act congressDelegates met in New York to send the "declaration of rights & grievances" to the king. They also organized a boycott of British goods.
Common senseAttacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.
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.
The new south
First major recession in the United States
Tenure of Office Act
W.E.B. DuboisArgued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
Mexican-American war
Fries rebellion
Split from the rest of the baptist church because the northern baptists were abolitionists
Convention of 1818More American fishing rights, set the U.S. - Canada border at the 49th parallel, and called for the joint-occupation of Oregon
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18th amendment passedBanned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
PlymouthColony settled by the Pilgrims. It eventually merged with Massachusetts Bay colony.
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American protective associationHeavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists
Assimilationist movement
Madison declared war on great BritainMadison declared war. "Would Americans remain independent or become colonists again?"
Articles of confederationLooked 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
Anti-Saloon leagueWorked to close down saloons
Roosevelt 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
NAWSAWorked to secure voting rights for women
Election of 1860Lincoln 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
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Civil rights act of 1866All African Americans were citizens of the United States
Cult of domesticityA woman's identity and sense of purpose revolved around child-bearing and making her home comfortable for her husband.
The embargo
Navigation Acts
Monroe doctrineEstablished the western hemisphere as a U.S.-dominated sphere of influence without European involvement.