The embargo
President Jefferson established an embargo on foreign trade in retaliation for Britain and France attacks on American ships.
Dred Scott case
A slave in Missouri was taken to live in free Wisconsin, for two years, and he sued for his freedom. The Supreme Court ruled that slaves aren't citizens, and they are property so nobody can be deprived of their property without due process.
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
The plan for representation favored by small states. It called for 1 house of Congress with each state getting equal representation.
Direct election of senators
Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
GI Bill
Gave WW2 veterans the opportunity to go to college for free (paid by the Government)
Spain sells Florida
Secret ballot
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
The war had revived the struggling party thanks to the anti-war movement. Now that the war was over, federalist support collapsed for good.
Railroads
Massive extension of the railroad system created a truly national market for goods
Effects of the War of 1812
Confirmed ability of a Republican Government to defend itself. Americans completed conquest of everything east of the Mississippi. War broke remaining indigenous power, and white settlers poured in to former native lands.
Manifest destiny
Americans believed they had a God-given right to have a nation from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
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.
Worked to close down saloons
Containment
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Sioux wars
Palmer raids
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
American federation of labor
Grew to over a million members by 1901 and had some modest successes
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
Rush-Bagot pact
Stopped the president from removing a member of their cabinet without congressional approval (Johnson had tried to remove his secretary of war, who was a radical Republican)
Knights of labor
Connecticut compromise
Congress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation.
Dutch Wedge
Got the royal charter for Georgia because he wanted to establish a colony for the "worthy poor" (the people in debtors prisions). England also wanted protection from Spanish Florida.
Andrew Carnegie
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
British beliefs after 7 years war
They viewed the colonies as subordinates. They had spent billions on defending them, and thought they'd want to help pay the debt.
Pequot war
Pequot tribe vs connecticut settlers. Started witht eh murder of 2 english traders. It was part of a larger dispute over trade
