Cult of domesticity
A woman's identity and sense of purpose revolved around child-bearing and making her home comfortable for her husband.
Thomas Gage
The new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Established the southern border of the United States and granted a huge portion of land known as the Mexican cession which included California and new Mexico
Engel vs. Vitale
Prohibited prayers in school
Views on immigration
Feared that factory owners would use immigrants to keep wages low and to replace striking workers
Madison declared war on great Britain
Madison declared war. "Would Americans remain independent or become colonists again?"
GI Bill
Gave WW2 veterans the opportunity to go to college for free (paid by the Government)
Interstate commerce act
The Virginia plan
The plan for representation favored by large states. It called for 2 houses with population based representation and a strong national government.
American temperance society
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
Sugar act
Reduced the tax on molasses, but strengthened the court system to end smuggling, making many wealthy smugglers angry.
Roosevelt 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
Navigation Acts
Colonists were required to ship certain products exclusively to England. These acts made colonists very angry because they were forbidden from trading with other countries.
Supported by Henry Clay and created under the American system
Rising power of big businesses
Uncertainties in the economy
Violence between labor groups and employers
Influence of political machines
Jim Crow segregation
Rights of women
Organized the conservative opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment
1920's economic boom
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Assimilationist movement
Gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years.
Articles of confederation
Looked 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
2nd Continental Congress
How would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army
How would they pay for it? New currency
An extension of the New Deal: War on Poverty
Office of Economic Opportunity, Medicare, Medicaid, immigration act
Civil rights act of 1866
All African Americans were citizens of the United States
Popham Colony
Britian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left
Black Panthers
Advocated violence when necessary in defense of black rights
Upton Sinclair
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Gospel of wealth
Andrew Carnegie argued that those with wealth should invest it into society
Virtual representation
The idea that each representative in parliament represented the empire as a whole, and therefore, the colonies were represented.
Kansas-Nebraska act
