Hamilton's financial plan1) Establish the U.S. credit worthiness 2) Unify the states' debt 3) Create a national bank 4) Whiskey tax to pay for the revolution 5) Establish tariffs to protect american businesses
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First political partiesDivisions over neutrality in the French revolution, the Jay treaty, the financial plan, and existing sectionalism created the first political parties.
Cesar Chavez
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The Virginia planThe plan for representation favored by large states. It called for 2 houses with population based representation and a strong national government.
By 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau declared that the frontier was officially settled
Strong national government
Debates over moneyFarmers wanted to print more money so they could more easily pay back their debts, but the bankers and the wealthy wanted to keep the U.S. Dollar on the gold standard
Gold was discovered in California, population skyrocketed
Battle of Bunker hill
Enabled manufacturers to produce huge quantities of steel
Big stick diplomacy
Sinking of the LusitaniaA German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
John D. RockefellerPioneered horizontal integration, where one company controls every seller in the market.
A movement, mostly among young people who cast off societal restraint with rebellious clothing and experimental drug use
End of the federalistsThe war had revived the struggling party thanks to the anti-war movement. Now that the war was over, federalist support collapsed for good.
Hoovervilles
Britian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left
Democratic RepublicansWeak national government
Election of 1797
Attitudes towards GermanyWanted to keep Germany weak so they wouldn't pose a threat.
Wanted to extract reparations for all the damage Germany had caused
Expanding the fur trade, later plantations in Louisiana
Southern resistance to integration
FlappersWomen who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Sneaky deal that exchanged Cherokee land in Georgia for a reservation territory west of the Mississippi River.
French revolutionAmbassador from France came to America to encourage Americans to side with the French. Washington declared neutrality, but the ambassador remained in America to not get beheaded back home.
7 years war
Black PanthersAdvocated violence when necessary in defense of black rights
WhigsNew party led by Henry Clay. Main difference was disagreement over federal power
New dealPublic works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
Compromise of 1850California 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
Civil rights act of 1866All African Americans were citizens of the United States
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Election of 1844James k. Polk was a big believer in manifest destiny. He got the Oregon territory and started the Mexican-American River.
Pres. Johnson violated the tenure of office act, and impeachment failed by one vote
Mexican-American warDisputes over the Texas border sparked the conflict. American troops made it all the way to Mexico city.
Election of 1828
International migration society
Teddy Roosevelt progressivismBelieved the president should set the legislative agenda for Congress. He led congress to pass a series of laws on consumer protection and enviornmental conservation
EPA
Palmer raids
Jay treatyBritain agreed to abandon outposts on the western frontier. In return the U.S. would favor trade with Britian. However, the treaty failed to address the british kidnapping, and American hatred of Britian caused riots.
Philippines
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Reconstruction actsDivided the south into 5 zones under military occupation. Increased requirements for rejoining (also ratify 14th amendment and have universal suffrage)
Election of 1824The 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.
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Knights of labor
Supported by Henry Clay and created under the American system
King Metacomet (King Philip), forges a massive military alliance with other native tribes and attacked Massachusetts in retaliation for the praying towns
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Views on immigrationFeared that factory owners would use immigrants to keep wages low and to replace striking workers
Split within the Democratic-Republican partyExpansive view of federal power & loose constructionists
The new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws
Dawes actBroke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves
Anaconda plan
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.
Unrestricted submarine warfareGermany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Booker T. WashingtonHe argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Lend-Lease ActAllowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
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Panic of 1819First major recession in the United States
Gave WW2 veterans the opportunity to go to college for free (paid by the Government)
Brown v. Board of educationThe Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were inherently unequal and schools had to be integrated. Overturned plessy v. Ferguson from 1896
The new southIdea that the future of the south would be based on economic diversity and industrial growth. Massive growth of population, industry, and railroads. Only in limited industrial centers though.