the character of a good participant in a system of gov
Great society
Texan independence
Americans had been settling in Texas since the 1820s. The southerners outnumbered actual Mexicans and had brought their slaves. The Mexican government outlawed slavery and mandated catholicism.
Knights of labor
National union open to ALL laborers. Wanted to end child labor and end trusts
The middle ground
The areas where both colonists and native people would trade and coexist
Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists
Proclamation of 1763
Britain didn't want to spend more money defending the colonies from the natives, so they banned settling beyond the Appalachian mountains
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Fugitive slave act
Many northerners opposed the expansion of slavery, and abolitionists despised the law. There were often riots when Southerners would try to bring back a runaway slave.
Election of 1800
Rematch between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. The Democratic republicans had finally figured out how to campaign in the media, and the Federalists were seen as elitist
American imperialism
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
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
Worked to secure voting rights for women
A revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s.
Boston massacre
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
Radical Republicans
pinckney's treaty
between US and spain, defined border US and spanish florida, guranteed US navigation rights in mississippi river
Election of 1824
Election of 1797
First contested election in American history, won by John Adams (Washington's vice president)
Ethan Allen and the Green mountain boys surround fort Ticonderoga, steal it's cannons, and bring them back to Boston
Marshall plan
The extensive economic aid plan to rebuild the European economy and encourage democracy
Workers formed labor unions to have more negotiating power and fight for better pay and working conditions
Dutch colonization
Fur trade and other economic reasons
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
Monroe doctrine
Established the western hemisphere as a U.S.-dominated sphere of influence without European involvement.
All African Americans were citizens of the United States
Meeting between leaders of 7 colonies to create a plan for joint defense and administration of the colonies. "Join or die"
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Age of passion
