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.
Political machines
Corrupt political bosses and their followers
A dispute over a french fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
War hawkes
Debates over money
Ida B. Wells
The new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws
Jefferson policy on indigenous Americans
He 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
Cult of domesticity
A woman's identity and sense of purpose revolved around child-bearing and making her home comfortable for her husband.
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.
Georgia government
Very strict. Max land ownership, no slavery, alcohol, or Catholics. By 1740's Georgians wanted normal english liberties so these restrictions went away.
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
Indentured Servants
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Failures of the articles of confederation
France and others wanted their debt paid back, yet the national government didn’t have money. States had individual economies that didn’t collaborate.
Civil rights act of 1866
All African Americans were citizens of the United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
fourteen points
National Grange movement
Social and educational collective aimed at brining farmers together. Soon became political to lobby for farmers
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Reduced the tax on molasses, but strengthened the court system to end smuggling, making many wealthy smugglers angry.
Attacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.
Madison declared war on great Britain
Madison declared war. "Would Americans remain independent or become colonists again?"
Spanish-American War
Sioux wars
Sioux initally won a deceive victory against the U.S. army.
Popham Colony
Britian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left
A conflict between two belligerents where neither engages in conflict with the other
Malcom X
Texan independence
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.
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
