Unrestricted submarine warfareGermany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
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Effects of the War of 1812Confirmed ability of a Republican Government to defend itself. Americans completed conquest of everything east of the Mississippi. War broke remaining indigenous power, and white settlers poured in to former native lands.
Attitudes towards Germany
New party led by Henry Clay. Main difference was disagreement over federal power
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Great depressionThe stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Pullman strike
Brown v. Board of education
Lexington and ConcordeBritish troops marched to take a militia's weapons. They we're beaten back and chased back to boston by militia minutemen
Whiskey rebellion
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger
Assimilationist movementWanted to end indian culture by forcing them to assimilate to American values.
Jackson Vetos Second Bank of the U.S.
Laissez-faire economics
The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia by a joint stock company
15th amendment
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
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
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Positions on expansion of slavery
Haymarket square riot
Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege
Gospel of wealth
Puritan cultureFamily seen as foundation of social fabric
N.A.A.C.P
Checks and balancesDifferent branches of government could check each other to prevent abuse of power.
Pendleton Act
PhilippinesTeddy Roosevelt sent an American fleet to attack the Spanish colony. They staged a ground invasion in collaboration with Filipino nationalists and overthrew the Spanish, before buying it from them
A Puritan woman who was well learned that disagreed with the Puritan Church in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her actions resulted in her banishment from the colony, and later took part in the formation of Rhode Island. She displayed the importance of questioning authority.
Indentured ServantsColonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
After a railroad car manufacturer cut wages, and the union tried to negotiate, the company failed them all. The railroad union decided to not work on any trains with Pullman cars in them. The railroad owners tied the Pullman cars to mail trains in order to get the government to keep them moving, and the union members were jailed
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Spain sells Florida
Laissez-faire economics
British troops marched to take a militia's weapons. They we're beaten back and chased back to boston by militia minutemen
The great migrationOver 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination
Sioux wars
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
republican motherhoodthe idea that women needed to become educated so that they could educate the new generation
Virtual representation
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All African Americans were citizens of the United States
Fighting broke out between the pro and anti-slavery factions
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Railroad companies cut salaries due to a recession. Railroad workers went on strike in 11 states. When the strike got violent, 11 people were killed before President Hayes sent in federal troops
President Jefferson established an embargo on foreign trade in retaliation for Britain and France attacks on American ships.
War hawkesYounger Americans who had been born after the revolution, were ardent nationalists, and wanted war with Britain to invade Florida and Canada.
Explained the boredom and imprisonment of the typical housewife who was beholden to the needs of her family at the expense of her own needs. Argued that women should seek fulfilment and careers as well.
Gospel of wealth
Gold rush
Cold war
California 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
Removed native americans from their land and sent them to reservations west of the Mississippi river.
Scopes Monkey trialIn 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.
Georgia government
Fries rebellionFarmers in southeast Pennsylvania stopped paying taxes for the larger military. John Fries led a peaceful protest, but John Adams ordered federal troops to stop the protest, and they made mass arrests, assaulted newspaper editors, and almost executed John Fries.
Pure food and drug actEnsured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Progressive's concerns
French revolution
From 1820 to 1840 nearly 2 million immigrants (mainly from Germany and Ireland) showed up
The Virginia planThe plan for representation favored by large states. It called for 2 houses with population based representation and a strong national government.
Dutch colonizationFur trade and other economic reasons