Spain sells Florida
A woman's identity and sense of purpose revolved around child-bearing and making her home comfortable for her husband.
divided Nebraska territory into 2 sections, Kansas and Nebraska. Put slavery to a vote in each new state. Effectively overturned the Missouri compromise!
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
John D. Rockefeller
First great awakening
A revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s.
White collar workers
All the industrialization created a new type of work for managers and administrators who ran the factories instead of working in them
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
Laissez-faire economics
There was an extreme lack of government regulation of the economy at the time
Ethan Allen and the Green mountain boys surround fort Ticonderoga, steal it's cannons, and bring them back to Boston
Roger Williams
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
Battle of Vicksburg
Granted the Union control of the entire Mississippi River. Cut the confederacy in half
International migration society
Facilitated the migration of black people to africa
Booker T. Washington
former slave who trained other black men to become economically self-sufficient, and argued this was a better way to gain power than to campaign for better voting rights
Ghost dance movement
Election of 1860
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
Whigs
New party led by Henry Clay. Main difference was disagreement over federal power
Starting in 1865 many Americans started pushing westward again after the interruption of the civil war
American temperance society
Focused on working men. Established over 5,000 chapters across the nation
On his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs
The great migration
Over 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
republican motherhood
the idea that women needed to become educated so that they could educate the new generation
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Colony founded by John Winthrop, part of the Great Puritan Migration, founded by puritans. Had a theocratic republic. "City upon a hill"
A movement, mostly among young people who cast off societal restraint with rebellious clothing and experimental drug use
Lexington and Concorde
British troops marched to take a militia's weapons. They we're beaten back and chased back to boston by militia minutemen
Broke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves
Pendleton Act
Southern resistance to integration
Gospel of wealth
Andrew Carnegie argued that those with wealth should invest it into society
