Baker vs. Carr
Mandated fair congressional districts
Upton Sinclair
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Sugar act
Election of 1824
The 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.
French colonization
Expanding the fur trade, later plantations in Louisiana
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Established the southern border of the United States and granted a huge portion of land known as the Mexican cession which included California and new Mexico
Louisiana purchase
Congress wanted king George to intervene on their behalf and end the violence. He didn’t read it.
Argued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
Roger Williams
A dissenter who clashed with the Massachusetts Puritans over separation of church and state and was banished in 1636, after which he founded the colony of Rhode Island to the south
Over 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination
Sneaky deal that exchanged Cherokee land in Georgia for a reservation territory west of the Mississippi River.
Election of 1797
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Manifest destiny
Americans believed they had a God-given right to have a nation from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
After the arrest of a black motorist by white officers, rioters killed over 30 people and destroyed hundreds of buildings in Los Angeles
Farmers 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
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.
Jamestown
The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia by a joint stock company
American federation of labor
Grew to over a million members by 1901 and had some modest successes
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
Lexington and Concorde
British troops marched to take a militia's weapons. They we're beaten back and chased back to boston by militia minutemen
Homestead act
Gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years.
Federalists
Battle of Bunker hill
British won, but had many casualties. They eventually abandoned Boston
The Feminine Mystique
Marshall plan
The extensive economic aid plan to rebuild the European economy and encourage democracy
Anne Hutchinson
A Puritan woman who was well learned that disagreed with the Puritan Church in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her actions resulted in her banishment from the colony, and later took part in the formation of Rhode Island. She displayed the importance of questioning authority.
Pure food and drug act
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Madison declared war on great Britain
