Heimler's History APUSH Review duel

Divisions over neutrality in the French revolution, the Jay treaty, the financial plan, and existing sectionalism created the first political parties.

Containment Truman took measures to contain the spread of communism. The U.S. would provide economic and military support to any country fighting communism

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

Charles Finney

British beliefs after 7 years war

Tallmadge amendment

Federalists Strong national government

Virtual representation The idea that each representative in parliament represented the empire as a whole, and therefore, the colonies were represented.

Election of 1824 The divisions within the Democratic-Republican party led them to choose 4 candidates, while Jackson's populist campaign won the popular vote, no candidate won enough electoral votes. Adams and Clay made a deal and the house voted for Adams.

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

Election of 1844 James k. Polk was a big believer in manifest destiny. He got the Oregon territory and started the Mexican-American River.

Federalism The division of powers between different levels of government.

Booker T. Washington

Free Soil Party

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

Louisiana purchase

virginia and kentucky resolutions drafted by thomas jefferson and james madison, claimed that alien and sedition acts were unconstitutional and overstepped federal authority under the constitition, and could therefore be nullified by the states

Made monopolizing an entire market illegal

The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia by a joint stock company

Common sense Attacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.

Argued that the Supreme Court had engaged in a gross abuse of power

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

King Metacomet (King Philip), forges a massive military alliance with other native tribes and attacked Massachusetts in retaliation for the praying towns

End of the federalists

Cult of domesticity A woman's identity and sense of purpose revolved around child-bearing and making her home comfortable for her husband.

the character of a good participant in a system of gov

Espionage Act of 1917 Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison

Olive branch petition

W.E.B. Dubois Argued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.

Written by Thomas Jefferson. Declared the colonies an independent country from Britain. Included a statement of intent, list of grievances, and a conclusion that dissolved ties with Britain

John Brown

Tallmadge amendment Would prohibit slavery in Missouri if it was admitted into the union

Big stick diplomacy

1920's economic boom The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.

New American identity Noah Webster's dictionary standardized the spelling and pronunciation of American language

Sit-in movement

Flappers Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair

Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

Virtual representation The idea that each representative in parliament represented the empire as a whole, and therefore, the colonies were represented.

alien laws authorized the president to deport "aliens" and permitted their arrest imprisonment and deportation during war time

Annapolis convention Secret meeting between delegates of 6 states to discuss how to fix the articles of confederation

British colonization Economic and religious liberty

Ida B. Wells Editor of a newspaper editorialized against lynching and jim crow. She fled north due to threats against her

Required railroad rates to be reasonable and just, and established a federal commission to oversee the railroads

End of the federalists The war had revived the struggling party thanks to the anti-war movement. Now that the war was over, federalist support collapsed for good.

Haymarket square riot Anarchists set off a bomb during a Knights of labor protest in Chicago for an 8-hour workweek. Many people began to see the labor movement as violent and radical

Decolonization

Containment

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.

Compromise of 1850 California and New Mexico wanted to enter the union as free states. Henry Clay created compromise: New Mexico and Utah would vote on slavery, California would be admitted as a free state, Slavery would be banned in Washington D.C., and there would be a new fugitive slave act

republican motherhood the idea that women needed to become educated so that they could educate the new generation

Harlem Renaissance

Removed native americans from their land and sent them to reservations west of the Mississippi river.

Bleeding Kansas

virginia and kentucky resolutions

divided Nebraska territory into 2 sections, Kansas and Nebraska. Put slavery to a vote in each new state. Effectively overturned the Missouri compromise!

Age of passion Politics was very negative with the rise of political parties, political violence, and deep political divisions

Zimmermann telegram Germany solicited Mexico to become an ally of theirs, and in return they would help Mexico regain the land that they had lost in the Mexican-American war.

Mass culture

New party led by Henry Clay. Main difference was disagreement over federal power

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