Heimler's History APUSH Review duel

Southern resistance to integration

Homestead act Gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years.

Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison

Assembly line A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars

Looked 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

A woman's identity and sense of purpose revolved around child-bearing and making her home comfortable for her husband.

Age of passion Politics was very negative with the rise of political parties, political violence, and deep political divisions

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

Pendleton Act Political appointments were very corrupt after a guy shot the president because he didn't get a job, congress passed the Pendleton Act, which created an exam that was used for deciding who would get a job

Gold rush Gold was discovered in California, population skyrocketed

Cold war A conflict between two belligerents where neither engages in conflict with the other

Ruled that federal law trumps state law

Pioneered horizontal integration, where one company controls every seller in the market.

Dawes act Broke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves

Checks and balances

Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902

Second great awakening Camp 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

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

drafted by thomas jefferson and james madison, claimed that alien and sedition acts were unconstitutional and overstepped federal authority under the constitition, and could therefore be nullified by the states

King Philip's war King Metacomet (King Philip), forges a massive military alliance with other native tribes and attacked Massachusetts in retaliation for the praying towns

New American identity Noah Webster's dictionary standardized the spelling and pronunciation of American language

Malcom X Advocated countering white violence with black violence

Election of 1797

Anne Hutchinson

Roe v. Wade Nixon's appointments (who he'd assumed who be conservative) ruled in favor of abortion rights

Marbury vs. Madison

Split from the rest of the baptist church because the northern baptists were abolitionists

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

Made discrimination on the basis of race, religion, or sex illegal

A conflict between two belligerents where neither engages in conflict with the other

French colonization Expanding the fur trade, later plantations in Louisiana

The Albany conference Meeting between leaders of 7 colonies to create a plan for joint defense and administration of the colonies. "Join or die"

Cesar Chavez Led the protests for fair labor for agricultural workers

British beliefs after 7 years war They viewed the colonies as subordinates. They had spent billions on defending them, and thought they'd want to help pay the debt.

Pure food and drug act Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food

Settlement houses Provided resources to the poor to enrich the neighborhood. Largely led by women

Political machines

Annapolis convention

Grew to over a million members by 1901 and had some modest successes

Workers formed labor unions to have more negotiating power and fight for better pay and working conditions

Great depression The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.

Madison re-imposed the embargo on Britain because they continued to attack American ships

Compromise of 1850 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

Britain didn't want to spend more money defending the colonies from the natives, so they banned settling beyond the Appalachian mountains

Nat turners rebellion A young slave organized a rebellion believing that god had told him to do so. He and his followers killed over 50 people

Hartford Convention Federalists met in opposition to the war of 1812, and even argued that new england should suceed.

Pushed hard for civil rights, wanted to punish the south. Shifted the process of reconstruction from president to congress

EPA Created in response to growing backlash from environmental disasters. Sought to place limits on pollution in the air and water

Indentured Servants Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years

Stamp act congress Delegates met in New York to send the "declaration of rights & grievances" to the king. They also organized a boycott of British goods.

Tenure of Office Act Stopped the president from removing a member of their cabinet without congressional approval (Johnson had tried to remove his secretary of war, who was a radical Republican)

Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience

Wilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)

Manifest destiny

Louisiana purchase Napoleon needed money to quell the Haitian revolution, so he sold the Louisiana territory, and Jefferson bought. This was controversial because the constitution didn't specify how to add territory to the union.

Pequot tribe vs connecticut settlers. Started witht eh murder of 2 english traders. It was part of a larger dispute over trade

Effects of the War of 1812 Confirmed 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

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