Dutch Wedge
Nixon's appointments (who he'd assumed who be conservative) ruled in favor of abortion rights
Britain agreed to abandon outposts on the western frontier. In return the U.S. would favor trade with Britian. However, the treaty failed to address the british kidnapping, and American hatred of Britian caused riots.
Expansion of democracy
Voting rights were expanded to all white males
Populist party
Wanted to correct the concentration of power held by banks and trusts. Proposed the Omaha platform: Direct election of senators, more referendums, graduated income tax, and an 8-hour workday
Farmers had to take debt because they weren’t getting paid. Their land was being repossessed so they rebelled and closed the courts. They used Republican ideals to justify it.
Jamestown
The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia by a joint stock company
Battle of Vicksburg
Granted the Union control of the entire Mississippi River. Cut the confederacy in half
Lend-Lease Act
More American fishing rights, set the U.S. - Canada border at the 49th parallel, and called for the joint-occupation of Oregon
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Plymouth
Colony settled by the Pilgrims. It eventually merged with Massachusetts Bay colony.
Phyllis Schlafly
Pullman strike
After a railroad car manufacturer cut wages, and the union tried to negotiate, the company failed them all. The railroad union decided to not work on any trains with Pullman cars in them. The railroad owners tied the Pullman cars to mail trains in order to get the government to keep them moving, and the union members were jailed
New deal
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
Free Soil Party
Formed by abolitionists who wanted to ban slavery everywhere
Colonial attitude towards independence
They didn’t want it. Initially the revolution was a petition to get the same rights as other British citizens
Worked to close down saloons
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
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
Reconstruction acts
Lexington and Concorde
A Puritan woman who was well learned that disagreed with the Puritan Church in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her actions resulted in her banishment from the colony, and later took part in the formation of Rhode Island. She displayed the importance of questioning authority.
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Manifest destiny
Americans believed they had a God-given right to have a nation from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
Nativists successfully pressured Congress to stop the flow of Chinese immigrants who were coming over during the gold rush.
Asiento System
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.
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
