Laws helped codify racial differneces. They wanted to prevent the growth of the free black population by banning interracial marriage. Also slavery was becoming cheaper than indentured servitude
Sedition act of 1918
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
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.
House Unamerican activities community searched for communist influence in American society (Government, military, film industry, Boy Scouts)
Bessemer process
Enabled manufacturers to produce huge quantities of steel
McCulloch vs Maryland
Ruled that federal law trumps state law
fourteen points
Panic of 1819
In Tennessee it was illegal to teach Darwin's theory of evolution to children. A teacher was arrested for teaching it to his class. In the end, the conviction was thrown out on a technicality.
Jackson Vetos Second Bank of the U.S.
Pioneered vertical integration, where one company controls every stage of the manufacturing process
Brown v. Board of education
The Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were inherently unequal and schools had to be integrated. Overturned plessy v. Ferguson from 1896
Radical Republicans
Pushed hard for civil rights, wanted to punish the south. Shifted the process of reconstruction from president to congress
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
Mass culture
The growing popularity of technologies like movies and the radio meant that everyone was listening to the same things, which helped create a more unified culture and distinct identity
Bacons rebellion
British settlers wanted more land for growing tobacco and they stole it from the natives. The natives retaliated, which infuriated the colonists. When Governor William Berkeley refused to send troops, Nathanial Bacon led angry poor farmers on an attack against the natives, and then on farms owned by Governor Berkeley.
Louisiana purchase
Tallmadge amendment
Split within the Democratic-Republican party
Expansive view of federal power & loose constructionists
Baker vs. Carr
King Philip's war
Wanted to keep Germany weak so they wouldn't pose a threat.
Wanted to extract reparations for all the damage Germany had caused
A coalition of free soilers and whigs and northern democrats who's goal was to stop the spread of slavery.
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
Declaratory act
Parliament repealed the stamp act, but enacted the declaratory act, saying they could pass any law they wanted.
Colonized to extract wealth through mining and cash crops
Pullman strike
Muckrakers
Gold rush
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
