Age of passion
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Indentured Servants Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
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
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.
Plymouth Colony settled by the Pilgrims. It eventually merged with Massachusetts Bay colony.
virginia and kentucky resolutions drafted by thomas jefferson and james madison, claimed that alien and sedition acts were unconstitutional and overstepped federal authority under the constitition, and could therefore be nullified by the states
John Brown
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
sedition act applied restrictions to immigration and speech in US made it a crime for americans to print, utter, or publish any false, scandalous, malicious writing about the government
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Election of 1797 First contested election in American history, won by John Adams (Washington's vice president)
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.
Chinese exclusion act Nativists successfully pressured Congress to stop the flow of Chinese immigrants who were coming over during the gold rush.
National Grange movement
Dutch Wedge
Big stick diplomacy
Cult of domesticity
Jefferson and Hamilton agreed to pass Hamilton's financial plan in exchange for making Washington D.C. the Capital of the country
Expanding the fur trade, later plantations in Louisiana
Attitudes towards Germany Wanted to keep Germany weak so they wouldn't pose a threat. Wanted to extract reparations for all the damage Germany had caused
Free Soil Party Formed by abolitionists who wanted to ban slavery everywhere
Colony founded by John Winthrop, part of the Great Puritan Migration, founded by puritans. Had a theocratic republic. "City upon a hill"
Federalism The division of powers between different levels of government.
Ghost dance movement
Gospel of wealth Andrew Carnegie argued that those with wealth should invest it into society
Focused on working men. Established over 5,000 chapters across the nation
Civil rights act of 1866 All African Americans were citizens of the United States
Bessemer process
Dutch colonization Fur trade and other economic reasons
Election of 1800
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
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Bacons rebellion
Palmer raids
Election of 1797
Louisiana purchase Napoleon needed money to quell the Haitian revolution, so he sold the Louisiana territory, and Jefferson bought. This was controversial because the constitution didn't specify how to add territory to the union.
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American temperance society Focused on working men. Established over 5,000 chapters across the nation
All the industrialization created a new type of work for managers and administrators who ran the factories instead of working in them
The middle ground
pinckney's treaty between US and spain, defined border US and spanish florida, guranteed US navigation rights in mississippi river
civic virtue
The Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were inherently unequal and schools had to be integrated. Overturned plessy v. Ferguson from 1896
Pequot tribe vs connecticut settlers. Started witht eh murder of 2 english traders. It was part of a larger dispute over trade
The embargo President Jefferson established an embargo on foreign trade in retaliation for Britain and France attacks on American ships.
Jackson Vetos Second Bank of the U.S. Supported by Henry Clay and created under the American system
March on Washington
Black codes
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
GI Bill Gave WW2 veterans the opportunity to go to college for free (paid by the Government)
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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
Checks and balances Different branches of government could check each other to prevent abuse of power.
Election of 1844 James k. Polk was a big believer in manifest destiny. He got the Oregon territory and started the Mexican-American River.
Indian nations were assigned land called reservations. However this land was much less than before, and many decided to just keep following buffalo
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
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
When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
New American identity Noah Webster's dictionary standardized the spelling and pronunciation of American language
Assembly line A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Gold rush
Politics was very negative with the rise of political parties, political violence, and deep political divisions
Pioneered vertical integration, where one company controls every stage of the manufacturing process
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