Indian Removal Act of 1830
Removed native americans from their land and sent them to reservations west of the Mississippi river.
March on Washington
Hundreds of thousands gathered for a peaceful protest in front of the lincoln memorial. MLK gave his 'I have a dream' speech
Teddy Roosevelt sent an American fleet to attack the Spanish colony. They staged a ground invasion in collaboration with Filipino nationalists and overthrew the Spanish, before buying it from them
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.
Manifest destiny
Americans believed they had a God-given right to have a nation from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
Dutch colonization
Fur trade and other economic reasons
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
President Jefferson established an embargo on foreign trade in retaliation for Britain and France attacks on American ships.
Ida B. Wells
Editor of a newspaper editorialized against lynching and jim crow. She fled north due to threats against her
Marbury vs. Madison
On his way out of office, John Adams appointed 16 new judges. Jefferson refused to deliver some of these appointments. The Supreme Court established judicial review.
Facilitated the migration of black people to africa
Square deal
virginia and kentucky resolutions
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
George Washington's Presidency
fourteen points
Wilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
By 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau declared that the frontier was officially settled
Assembly line
Fugitive slave act
A conflict between two belligerents where neither engages in conflict with the other
Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege
On his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs
He himself owned hundreds of slaves. He banned the importation of slaves. Once the Atlantic trade dried up, domestic trade increased, creating the second middle passage
Treaty of New Echota
Sneaky deal that exchanged Cherokee land in Georgia for a reservation territory west of the Mississippi River.
Laissez-faire economics
There was an extreme lack of government regulation of the economy at the time
Jefferson policy on indigenous Americans
Rush-Bagot pact
Agreement with Britain that removed military ships from the great lakes.
Tenure of Office Act
Stopped 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)
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.
The great migration
Over 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Made discrimination on the basis of race, religion, or sex illegal
