Roanoke Colony
Britians first colony, established in outer banks, NC. When they came back, it was abandonded
Haymarket square riot
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
The most famous political machine organized and met the needs of immigrants and the poor in exchange for votes
Declaratory act
Parliament repealed the stamp act, but enacted the declaratory act, saying they could pass any law they wanted.
Sneaky deal that exchanged Cherokee land in Georgia for a reservation territory west of the Mississippi River.
Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
Expansion of democracy
Voting rights were expanded to all white males
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.
Chinese exclusion act
Pioneered horizontal integration, where one company controls every seller in the market.
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.
George Whitefield
Anne Hutchinson
Dutch Wedge
New Netherlands separated England's northern and southern colonies, until they just took it with very little resistance
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
Checks and balances
Gold was discovered in California, population skyrocketed
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Manifest destiny
Americans believed they had a God-given right to have a nation from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
Mandated fair congressional districts
Zimmermann telegram
Germany solicited Mexico to become an ally of theirs, and in return they would help Mexico regain the land that they had lost in the Mexican-American war.
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
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Colonists were required to ship certain products exclusively to England. These acts made colonists very angry because they were forbidden from trading with other countries.
Cesar Chavez
Led the protests for fair labor for agricultural workers
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
Americans had been settling in Texas since the 1820s. The southerners outnumbered actual Mexicans and had brought their slaves. The Mexican government outlawed slavery and mandated catholicism.
the Compromise of 1790
Jefferson and Hamilton agreed to pass Hamilton's financial plan in exchange for making Washington D.C. the Capital of the country
Voting Rights Act of 1965
7 years war
A dispute over a French fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
