Heimler's History APUSH Review duel

Sneaky deal that exchanged Cherokee land in Georgia for a reservation territory west of the Mississippi River.

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

Increased nativism

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

Indentured Servants

Common sense Attacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.

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

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

Weak national government

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)

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

He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors

Plan to completely cut off the south by blockading southern ports and eventually the Mississippi river

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

Railroads supported by the government through money and land grants

Philadelphia convention 12/13 states met to amend the articles of confederation. They eventually decided to draft a new constitution

Spanish colonization Colonized to extract wealth through mining and cash crops

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.

Muckrakers

Puritan culture Family seen as foundation of social fabric

Townshend Acts In opposing the stamp act, the colonists said trade should be regulated instead. Parliament passed the townshend acts and began taxing imports and exports.

Declaration of Independence

Unrestricted submarine warfare Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later

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)

New deal

Pequot war

Texan independence

Interstate commerce act Required railroad rates to be reasonable and just, and established a federal commission to oversee the railroads

French revolution

From 1820 to 1840 nearly 2 million immigrants (mainly from Germany and Ireland) showed up

Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902

Ruled that federal law trumps state law

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

joint-stock company A business, often backed by a government charter, that sold shares to individuals to raise money for its trading enterprises and to spread the risks (and profits) among many investors.

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

Counter culture A movement, mostly among young people who cast off societal restraint with rebellious clothing and experimental drug use

Jamestown The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia by a joint stock company

Wilson created many wartime agencies to coordinate the war. They encouraged Americans to ration resources and food, took control of railroads, and revitalized industries, causing more urban migration.

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

Plymouth

Popham Colony Britian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left

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

French and british continued to kidnap american sailors, so Adams sent ministers to negotiate. When they arrived, 3 agents demanded a bribe just to speak to the foreign minister. John Adams almost declared war.

President Jefferson established an embargo on foreign trade in retaliation for Britain and France attacks on American ships.

Gospel of wealth

Wanted to correct the concentration of power held by banks and trusts. Proposed the Omaha platform: Direct election of senators, more referendums, graduated income tax, and an 8-hour workday

Sedition act of 1918 Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger Her refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger, and subsequent arrest sparked a massive bus boycott

Cash and Carry 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

American protective association

British impressment The British continued to kidnap american sailors. Washington sent John Jay to london to negotiate

Henry Clay's American system

White supremacy continued to dominate. Secret societies continued to terrorize African Americans (and Catholics, jews, and immigrants)

2nd Continental Congress How would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army How would they pay for it? New currency

Britain agreed to abandon outposts on the western frontier. In return the U.S. would favor trade with Britian. However, the treaty failed to address the british kidnapping, and American hatred of Britian caused riots.

Truman took measures to contain the spread of communism. The U.S. would provide economic and military support to any country fighting communism

Progressivism The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.

divided Nebraska territory into 2 sections, Kansas and Nebraska. Put slavery to a vote in each new state. Effectively overturned the Missouri compromise!

War hawkes Younger Americans who had been born after the revolution, were ardent nationalists, and wanted war with Britain to invade Florida and Canada.

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