Provided resources to the poor to enrich the neighborhood. Largely led by women
Fugitive slave act
Railroad companies cut salaries due to a recession. Railroad workers went on strike in 11 states. When the strike got violent, 11 people were killed before President Hayes sent in federal troops
Connecticut compromise
Congress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation.
In opposing the stamp act, the colonists said trade should be regulated instead. Parliament passed the townshend acts and began taxing imports and exports.
James k. Polk was a big believer in manifest destiny. He got the Oregon territory and started the Mexican-American River.
Rise 0f Chesapeake slavery
A dispute over a French fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
Progressivism
Jefferson's presidency
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
Growth of immigration
16 million immigrants (mostly from Europe) came looking for better economic opportunities
Chinese exclusion act
Nativists successfully pressured Congress to stop the flow of Chinese immigrants who were coming over during the gold rush.
Ethan Allen and the Green mountain boys surround fort Ticonderoga, steal it's cannons, and bring them back to Boston
Expansive view of federal power & loose constructionists
Philadelphia convention
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)
Led the protests for fair labor for agricultural workers
Booker T. Washington
Stamp act
All paper products sold in the colonies had to be stamped and pay a small tax. It spurred on revolutionary ideals.
Social and educational collective aimed at brining farmers together. Soon became political to lobby for farmers
Hoovervilles
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Southern baptists
Split from the rest of the baptist church because the northern baptists were abolitionists
Political machines
Corrupt political bosses and their followers
N.A.A.C.P
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Federalists
Strong national government
Gold rush
Attacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.
Fighting broke out between the pro and anti-slavery factions
Direct election of senators
Popham Colony
Britian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left
