Heimler's History APUSH Review duel

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

Interstate commerce act

New york preacher who spoke powerfully with images that common folks could understand.

Lend-Lease Act Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed

Bleeding Kansas Fighting broke out between the pro and anti-slavery factions

Supported by Henry Clay and created under the American system

Brown v. Board of education The Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were inherently unequal and schools had to be integrated. Overturned plessy v. Ferguson from 1896

Phyllis Schlafly Organized the conservative opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment

Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them

Radical Republicans Pushed hard for civil rights, wanted to punish the south. Shifted the process of reconstruction from president to congress

American protective association

John Brown Led a small raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. His goal was to arm the southern slave population and incite a slave rebellion

Pendleton Act Political appointments were very corrupt after a guy shot the president because he didn't get a job, congress passed the Pendleton Act, which created an exam that was used for deciding who would get a job

Battle of Vicksburg Granted the Union control of the entire Mississippi River. Cut the confederacy in half

Crisis in American values

George Whitefield

War hawkes Younger Americans who had been born after the revolution, were ardent nationalists, and wanted war with Britain to invade Florida and Canada.

Civil rights act of 1866 All African Americans were citizens of the United States

Anaconda plan Plan to completely cut off the south by blockading southern ports and eventually the Mississippi river

Pure food and drug act Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food

Battle of Bunker hill British won, but had many casualties. They eventually abandoned Boston

Jim Crow laws

Advocated countering white violence with black violence

Many northerners opposed the expansion of slavery, and abolitionists despised the law. There were often riots when Southerners would try to bring back a runaway slave.

International migration society

French colonization Expanding the fur trade, later plantations in Louisiana

Marbury vs. Madison

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)

McCulloch vs Maryland Ruled that federal law trumps state law

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.

Hamilton's financial plan 1) Establish the U.S. credit worthiness 2) Unify the states' debt 3) Create a national bank 4) Whiskey tax to pay for the revolution 5) Establish tariffs to protect american businesses

John D. Rockefeller Pioneered horizontal integration, where one company controls every seller in the market.

Debates over money Farmers wanted to print more money so they could more easily pay back their debts, but the bankers and the wealthy wanted to keep the U.S. Dollar on the gold standard

Rise 0f Chesapeake slavery Laws helped codify racial differneces. They wanted to prevent the growth of the free black population by banning interracial marriage. Also slavery was becoming cheaper than indentured servitude

Britians first colony, established in outer banks, NC. When they came back, it was abandonded

Booker T. Washington 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

Baker vs. Carr

Kansas-Nebraska act

American imperialism Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.

Government support for railroads Railroads supported by the government through money and land grants

Upton Sinclair Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)

pinckney's treaty between US and spain, defined border US and spanish florida, guranteed US navigation rights in mississippi river

Congress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation.

White supremacy continued to dominate. Secret societies continued to terrorize African Americans (and Catholics, jews, and immigrants)

Marshall plan The extensive economic aid plan to rebuild the European economy and encourage democracy

Ghost dance movement nationwide movement of resistance. They began to believe that if they took up the ritualistic ghost dance, that their ancestors would return and drive the Americans out.

Political machines Corrupt political bosses and their followers

Starting in 1865 many Americans started pushing westward again after the interruption of the civil war

President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president

Jay treaty 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.

Civil rights act of 1866

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.

Free Soil Party

Homestead act Gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years.

12/13 states met to amend the articles of confederation. They eventually decided to draft a new constitution

House Unamerican activities community searched for communist influence in American society (Government, military, film industry, Boy Scouts)

sedition act

Anne Hutchinson 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.

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