Heimler's History APUSH Review duel

2nd Continental Congress

Bessemer process Enabled manufacturers to produce huge quantities of steel

Wilmot Proviso

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

Praying towns Towns in new england where native Americans were forced to live. They we're supposed to be for their protection, but really, it was to steal their land and convert them to christianity

Advocated countering white violence with black violence

Wanted to end indian culture by forcing them to assimilate to American values.

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

Square deal When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation

The New Jersey plan The plan for representation favored by small states. It called for 1 house of Congress with each state getting equal representation.

Expansive view of federal power & loose constructionists

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

Puritan culture Family seen as foundation of social fabric

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

Annapolis convention Secret meeting between delegates of 6 states to discuss how to fix the articles of confederation

Colonial attitude towards independence They didn’t want it. Initially the revolution was a petition to get the same rights as other British citizens

First political parties Divisions over neutrality in the French revolution, the Jay treaty, the financial plan, and existing sectionalism created the first political parties.

Ghost dance movement nationwide movement of resistance. They began to believe that if they took up the ritualistic ghost dance, that their ancestors would return and drive the Americans out.

Sit-in movement

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger

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

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

Tariff of 1828

The Virginia plan The plan for representation favored by large states. It called for 2 houses with population based representation and a strong national government.

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.

Indian appropriation act

France and others wanted their debt paid back, yet the national government didn’t have money. States had individual economies that didn’t collaborate.

Spanish colonization

XYZ affair

American imperialism Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.

A dispute over a french fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.

Philippines Teddy 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

Wanted to end indian culture by forcing them to assimilate to American values.

Railroads

Unrestricted submarine warfare Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later

A dissenter who clashed with the Massachusetts Puritans over separation of church and state and was banished in 1636, after which he founded the colony of Rhode Island to the south

French revolution Ambassador 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.

Progressive's concerns Rising power of big businesses Uncertainties in the economy Violence between labor groups and employers Influence of political machines Jim Crow segregation Rights of women

NAWSA Worked to secure voting rights for women

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

Election of 1824 The divisions within the Democratic-Republican party led them to choose 4 candidates, while Jackson's populist campaign won the popular vote, no candidate won enough electoral votes. Adams and Clay made a deal and the house voted for Adams.

Upton Sinclair Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers

Democratic Republicans

Lincoln 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

A revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s.

Election of 1828

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.

Franklin D. Roosevelt elected

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

Andrew Carnegie

Anarchists set off a bomb during a Knights of labor protest in Chicago for an 8-hour workweek. Many people began to see the labor movement as violent and radical

American federation of labor Grew to over a million members by 1901 and had some modest successes

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

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.

The division of powers between different levels of government.

Dred Scott case

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

virginia and kentucky resolutions 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

Sioux initally won a deceive victory against the U.S. army.

The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.

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