Knights of labor
Free Soil Party
Navigation Acts
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.
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
Government support for railroads
Railroads supported by the government through money and land grants
British impressment
The British continued to kidnap american sailors. Washington sent John Jay to london to negotiate
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.
Jefferson policy on indigenous Americans
He favored removing them to reservations beyond the Mississippi if they refused to "civilize" themselves. Some unified and began violently resisting with help from the British
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
Harlem Renaissance
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Parliament repealed the stamp act, but enacted the declaratory act, saying they could pass any law they wanted.
Proclamation of 1763
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
Anaconda plan
Plan to completely cut off the south by blockading southern ports and eventually the Mississippi river
Black codes
Restricted the civil rights of african americans in the south. Made it harder to vote, own property, even banned them from testifying against white people
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
W.E.B. Dubois
Argued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
Cesar Chavez
Led the protests for fair labor for agricultural workers
Ida Tarbell
White supremacy
White supremacy continued to dominate. Secret societies continued to terrorize African Americans (and Catholics, jews, and immigrants)
American imperialism
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.
The contested election was decided by a Republican-leaning committee the obv chose the Republican candidate. Democrats threatened to filibuster
George Whitefield
A staunch Calvinist who began preaching outdoors in England. He moved to the colonies in 1740. In 2 years he was able to speak to over a quarter of the American population
NAWSA
Manifest destiny
Americans believed they had a God-given right to have a nation from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
Great railroad strike
Secret ballot
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
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
