Massive extension of the railroad system created a truly national market for goods
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Strong national government
MuckrakersInvestigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Wanted to keep Germany weak so they wouldn't pose a threat.
Wanted to extract reparations for all the damage Germany had caused
Panic of 1893
Praying townsTowns in new england where native Americans were forced to live. They we're supposed to be for their protection, but really, it was to steal their land and convert them to christianity
Indentured ServantsColonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
Articles of confederationLooked to balance national coordination and states rights to prevent tyranny. It featured a unicameral legislature, but the federal government had no money and no military
the character of a good participant in a system of gov
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EPACreated in response to growing backlash from environmental disasters. Sought to place limits on pollution in the air and water
Townshend ActsIn opposing the stamp act, the colonists said trade should be regulated instead. Parliament passed the townshend acts and began taxing imports and exports.
Led the protests for fair labor for agricultural workers
Tenure of Office ActStopped 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)
Mexican-American war
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Positions on expansion of slaveryArgued that slavery was a constitutional right, wanted line established in the Missouri Compromise to extend all the way westward to the Pacific.
New party led by Henry Clay. Main difference was disagreement over federal power
Nativists successfully pressured Congress to stop the flow of Chinese immigrants who were coming over during the gold rush.
March on WashingtonHundreds of thousands gathered for a peaceful protest in front of the lincoln memorial. MLK gave his 'I have a dream' speech
Thomas GageThe new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws
Whiskey rebellionviolent tax protest from 1791-1794.
the whiskey was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by president Washington to pay for the war. It unfairly burdened poor farmers west of the Appalachian mountains because they couldn't do business anymore
House Unamerican activities community searched for communist influence in American society (Government, military, film industry, Boy Scouts)
Dutch colonizationFur trade and other economic reasons
First political parties
The New Jersey planThe plan for representation favored by small states. It called for 1 house of Congress with each state getting equal representation.
Square deal
ProgressivismThe idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Booker T. Washington
Cash and CarryRoosevelt 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
Charles FinneyNew york preacher who spoke powerfully with images that common folks could understand.
pinckney's treatybetween US and spain, defined border US and spanish florida, guranteed US navigation rights in mississippi river
Brown v. Board of education
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Compromise of 1820
Ida B. WellsEditor of a newspaper editorialized against lynching and jim crow. She fled north due to threats against her
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Roger WilliamsA 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
Manifest destinyAmericans believed they had a God-given right to have a nation from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
End of the federalistsThe war had revived the struggling party thanks to the anti-war movement. Now that the war was over, federalist support collapsed for good.
Election of 1800Rematch 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
Zimmermann telegram
Cult of domesticity
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Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
The extensive economic aid plan to rebuild the European economy and encourage democracy
Baker vs. CarrMandated fair congressional districts
A young slave organized a rebellion believing that god had told him to do so. He and his followers killed over 50 people
Great railroad strikeRailroad companies cut salaries due to a recession. Railroad workers went on strike in 11 states. When the strike got violent, 11 people were killed before President Hayes sent in federal troops
NAWSAWorked to secure voting rights for women
7 years warA dispute over a French fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
Forced segregation and prevented african americans from exercising their civil liberties
Political machines
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.
Social and educational collective aimed at brining farmers together. Soon became political to lobby for farmers
All African Americans were citizens of the United States
Theologian and philosopher who objected to predestination and helped cause the first great awakening by preaching to large crowds
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
System that took slaves to the New World to work for the Spanish. Required that a tax be paid to the Spanish ruler for each slave brought over.
WhigsNew party led by Henry Clay. Main difference was disagreement over federal power
Jackson Vetos Second Bank of the U.S.Supported by Henry Clay and created under the American system
Anne Hutchinson
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
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