1920's politics
The New Jersey plan
Counter culture
A movement, mostly among young people who cast off societal restraint with rebellious clothing and experimental drug use
Changes in farming
A new focus on cash-crops in the north and west, and a shift to more expensive mechanized farming methods put smaller farms out of business. Big trusts that farmers relied on (like railroads) also raised prices, making it even harder for farmers to make a living
7 years war
A dispute over a french fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
McCulloch vs Maryland
Ruled that federal law trumps state law
White collar workers
Asiento System
System that took slaves to the New World to work for the Spanish. Required that a tax be paid to the Spanish ruler for each slave brought over.
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Removed native americans from their land and sent them to reservations west of the Mississippi river.
15th amendment
Protected voting rights of former slaves (in theory)
Rematch between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. The Democratic republicans had finally figured out how to campaign in the media, and the Federalists were seen as elitist
Dawes act
N.A.A.C.P
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Congress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation.
James Oglethorpe
Got the royal charter for Georgia because he wanted to establish a colony for the "worthy poor" (the people in debtors prisions). England also wanted protection from Spanish Florida.
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Election of 1828
Jay treaty
fourteen points
Wilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
Colony founded by John Winthrop, part of the Great Puritan Migration, founded by puritans. Had a theocratic republic. "City upon a hill"
Tallmadge amendment
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Established the southern border of the United States and granted a huge portion of land known as the Mexican cession which included California and new Mexico
Argued that the Supreme Court had engaged in a gross abuse of power
Rush-Bagot pact
Agreement with Britain that removed military ships from the great lakes.
Jacob Riis
A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
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
First political parties
Divisions over neutrality in the French revolution, the Jay treaty, the financial plan, and existing sectionalism created the first political parties.
Decolonization
After WWII there was a massive movement of decolonization throughout the world. Many of these new nations were unstable and needed aid, creating perfect conditions for proxy wars
Expansion of democracy
Voting rights were expanded to all white males
Indian appropriation act
congress sparked a new fight with the Sioux, by passing a law that nullified all previous treaties made with native Americans
