Korematsu vs. U.S. Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Jefferson and Hamilton agreed to pass Hamilton's financial plan in exchange for making Washington D.C. the Capital of the country
Marshall plan
Virtual representation The idea that each representative in parliament represented the empire as a whole, and therefore, the colonies were represented.
Niagra movement
Cult of domesticity A woman's identity and sense of purpose revolved around child-bearing and making her home comfortable for her husband.
Panic of 1819 First major recession in the United States
Made monopolizing an entire market illegal
Women's Christian Temperance Union Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
Great society An extension of the New Deal: War on Poverty Office of Economic Opportunity, Medicare, Medicaid, immigration act
W.E.B. Dubois
Sioux wars Sioux initally won a deceive victory against the U.S. army.
After a railroad car manufacturer cut wages, and the union tried to negotiate, the company failed them all. The railroad union decided to not work on any trains with Pullman cars in them. The railroad owners tied the Pullman cars to mail trains in order to get the government to keep them moving, and the union members were jailed
George Whitefield
Manifest destiny Americans believed they had a God-given right to have a nation from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
Dutch colonization Fur trade and other economic reasons
American protective association Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists
The linking of northern industries with western and southern farms which was created by advances in agriculture, industry, communication, and transportation
Hamilton's financial plan
Decolonization
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Delegates met in New York to send the "declaration of rights & grievances" to the king. They also organized a boycott of British goods.
Reconstruction acts Divided the south into 5 zones under military occupation. Increased requirements for rejoining (also ratify 14th amendment and have universal suffrage)
National Grange movement
Wanted to correct the concentration of power held by banks and trusts. Proposed the Omaha platform: Direct election of senators, more referendums, graduated income tax, and an 8-hour workday
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John D. Rockefeller Pioneered horizontal integration, where one company controls every seller in the market.
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Camp meetings with huge sermons, christian revival. In contrast to first great awakening, which focused on personal moral reformation, second one emphasized moral reformation of society
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
The middle ground The areas where both colonists and native people would trade and coexist
Lincoln campaigned on halting the expansion of slavery. He won without a single Southern electoral vote, prompting the south to realize they no longer any voice in the future of slavery in america
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Civil rights act of 1866 All African Americans were citizens of the United States
Pendleton Act Political appointments were very corrupt after a guy shot the president because he didn't get a job, congress passed the Pendleton Act, which created an exam that was used for deciding who would get a job
Battle of Bunker hill British won, but had many casualties. They eventually abandoned Boston
Great depression
Cult of domesticity A woman's identity and sense of purpose revolved around child-bearing and making her home comfortable for her husband.
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.
All paper products sold in the colonies had to be stamped and pay a small tax. It spurred on revolutionary ideals.
the idea that women needed to become educated so that they could educate the new generation
Prohibited prayers in school
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Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Congress wanted king George to intervene on their behalf and end the violence. He didn’t read it.
Marbury vs. Madison
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
King Metacomet (King Philip), forges a massive military alliance with other native tribes and attacked Massachusetts in retaliation for the praying towns
Camp meetings with huge sermons, christian revival. In contrast to first great awakening, which focused on personal moral reformation, second one emphasized moral reformation of society
Ethan Allen and the Green mountain boys surround fort Ticonderoga, steal it's cannons, and bring them back to Boston
Gold rush Gold was discovered in California, population skyrocketed
Laissez-faire economics
Election of 1860
Sugar act
Views on immigration Feared that factory owners would use immigrants to keep wages low and to replace striking workers
A staunch Calvinist who began preaching outdoors in England. He moved to the colonies in 1740. In 2 years he was able to speak to over a quarter of the American population
Indian nations were assigned land called reservations. However this land was much less than before, and many decided to just keep following buffalo
French colonization Expanding the fur trade, later plantations in Louisiana
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The New Jersey plan The plan for representation favored by small states. It called for 1 house of Congress with each state getting equal representation.
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New deal Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
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Tammany Hall The most famous political machine organized and met the needs of immigrants and the poor in exchange for votes
Harlem Renaissance Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Organized the conservative opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment
The middle ground
Nat turners rebellion A young slave organized a rebellion believing that god had told him to do so. He and his followers killed over 50 people
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