Heimler's History APUSH Review duel

Puritan culture Family seen as foundation of social fabric

Sugar act Reduced the tax on molasses, but strengthened the court system to end smuggling, making many wealthy smugglers angry.

New deal Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding

Wilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)

Sherman antitrust act

Colonial attitude towards independence They didn’t want it. Initially the revolution was a petition to get the same rights as other British citizens

The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations

In opposing the stamp act, the colonists said trade should be regulated instead. Parliament passed the townshend acts and began taxing imports and exports.

An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts

Federalism The division of powers between different levels of government.

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Compromise of 1877

Workers formed labor unions to have more negotiating power and fight for better pay and working conditions

Niagra movement Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans

Treaty of New Echota

Hola Hello

Unrestricted submarine warfare Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later

Social and educational collective aimed at brining farmers together. Soon became political to lobby for farmers

Pequot tribe vs connecticut settlers. Started witht eh murder of 2 english traders. It was part of a larger dispute over trade

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.

Johnson impeached Pres. Johnson violated the tenure of office act, and impeachment failed by one vote

Worked to close down saloons

Dawes act Broke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves

More American fishing rights, set the U.S. - Canada border at the 49th parallel, and called for the joint-occupation of Oregon

Franklin D. Roosevelt elected

Decolonization 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

Shay’s rebellion 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.

A dissenter who clashed with the Massachusetts Puritans over separation of church and state and was banished in 1636, after which he founded the colony of Rhode Island to the south

Panic of 1819 First major recession in the United States

Convention of 1818 More American fishing rights, set the U.S. - Canada border at the 49th parallel, and called for the joint-occupation of Oregon

Dutch Wedge

Popham Colony Britian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left

Progressive's concerns 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

Great society An extension of the New Deal: War on Poverty Office of Economic Opportunity, Medicare, Medicaid, immigration act

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.

Sit-in movement

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

Jefferson policy on indigenous Americans He favored removing them to reservations beyond the Mississippi if they refused to "civilize" themselves. Some unified and began violently resisting with help from the British

From 1820 to 1840 nearly 2 million immigrants (mainly from Germany and Ireland) showed up

British impressment The British continued to kidnap american sailors. Washington sent John Jay to london to negotiate

Niagra movement

Scopes Monkey trial In Tennessee it was illegal to teach Darwin's theory of evolution to children. A teacher was arrested for teaching it to his class. In the end, the conviction was thrown out on a technicality.

Anti-Saloon league Worked to close down saloons

A severe economic depression during which nearly a quarter of railroads declared bankruptcy. This caused bankers to buy up many of the railroads, leading to consolidation.

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

Cult of domesticity

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

March on Washington

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

civic virtue the character of a good participant in a system of gov

Split within the Democratic-Republican party Expansive view of federal power & loose constructionists

The middle ground The areas where both colonists and native people would trade and coexist

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

Protected voting rights of former slaves (in theory)

Railroads Massive extension of the railroad system created a truly national market for goods

American federation of labor Grew to over a million members by 1901 and had some modest successes

After the arrest of a black motorist by white officers, rioters killed over 30 people and destroyed hundreds of buildings in Los Angeles

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