Heimler's History APUSH Review duel

Mass culture

Ruled that federal law trumps state law

Treaty of New Echota Sneaky deal that exchanged Cherokee land in Georgia for a reservation territory west of the Mississippi River.

National Grange movement

Crisis in American values Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries Lived in urban areas

International migration society

There was an extreme lack of government regulation of the economy at the time

Free Soil Party Formed by abolitionists who wanted to ban slavery everywhere

Pullman strike

Women's Christian Temperance Union Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members

Wanted to keep Germany weak so they wouldn't pose a threat. Wanted to extract reparations for all the damage Germany had caused

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

Civil rights act of 1866

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.

Rush-Bagot pact

French colonization Expanding the fur trade, later plantations in Louisiana

Sinking of the Lusitania A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board

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

Pure food and drug act Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food

Spanish colonization Colonized to extract wealth through mining and cash crops

Failures of the articles of confederation France and others wanted their debt paid back, yet the national government didn’t have money. States had individual economies that didn’t collaborate.

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

British troops marched to take a militia's weapons. They we're beaten back and chased back to boston by militia minutemen

Fur trade and other economic reasons

Views on immigration Feared that factory owners would use immigrants to keep wages low and to replace striking workers

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.

They viewed the colonies as subordinates. They had spent billions on defending them, and thought they'd want to help pay the debt.

Decolonization

A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements

Radical Republicans Pushed hard for civil rights, wanted to punish the south. Shifted the process of reconstruction from president to congress

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

fourteen points

A business, often backed by a government charter, that sold shares to individuals to raise money for its trading enterprises and to spread the risks (and profits) among many investors.

Tariff of 1828 Raised import duties up to 50%. Supported by industrial northerners and hated by southerners who relied on imports

Sedition act of 1918 Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government

Federalism

Harlem Renaissance Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience

Great railroad strike 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

Jim Crow laws Forced segregation and prevented african americans from exercising their civil liberties

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

Square deal When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation

civic virtue

Spanish colonization Colo

Ghost dance movement 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.

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.

Nat turners rebellion

Jacob Riis A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements

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

Philadelphia convention

Views on immigration

Rise 0f Chesapeake slavery Laws helped codify racial differneces. They wanted to prevent the growth of the free black population by banning interracial marriage. Also slavery was becoming cheaper than indentured servitude

Madison declared war on great Britain

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

Positions on expansion of slavery Argued that slavery was a constitutional right, wanted line established in the Missouri Compromise to extend all the way westward to the Pacific.

Whiskey rebellion violent tax protest from 1791-1794. the whiskey was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by president Washington to pay for the war. It unfairly burdened poor farmers west of the Appalachian mountains because they couldn't do business anymore

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.

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

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

GI Bill Gave WW2 veterans the opportunity to go to college for free (paid by the Government)

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