A movement, mostly among young people who cast off societal restraint with rebellious clothing and experimental drug use
Philadelphia convention
EPACreated in response to growing backlash from environmental disasters. Sought to place limits on pollution in the air and water
Growth of immigration16 million immigrants (mostly from Europe) came looking for better economic opportunities
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Jay treaty
Johnathan EdwardsTheologian and philosopher who objected to predestination and helped cause the first great awakening by preaching to large crowds
Dred Scott caseA slave in Missouri was taken to live in free Wisconsin, for two years, and he sued for his freedom. The Supreme Court ruled that slaves aren't citizens, and they are property so nobody can be deprived of their property without due process.
Farmers had to take debt because they weren’t getting paid. Their land was being repossessed so they rebelled and closed the courts. They used Republican ideals to justify it.
Johnson impeachedPres. Johnson violated the tenure of office act, and impeachment failed by one vote
Proclamation of 1763
From 1820 to 1840 nearly 2 million immigrants (mainly from Germany and Ireland) showed up
King Philip's warKing Metacomet (King Philip), forges a massive military alliance with other native tribes and attacked Massachusetts in retaliation for the praying towns
Roe v. Wade
Dawes actBroke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves
Henry Clay's American systemFederally funded internal improvements, protective tariffs, and the re-establishment of the bank of the united states.
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Labor unions
New york preacher who spoke powerfully with images that common folks could understand.
NAWSAWorked to secure voting rights for women
Marbury vs. MadisonOn his way out of office, John Adams appointed 16 new judges. Jefferson refused to deliver some of these appointments. The Supreme Court established judicial review.
President Jefferson established an embargo on foreign trade in retaliation for Britain and France attacks on American ships.
Treaty of New Echota
Popham ColonyBritian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left
Secret ballotHelped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
James k. Polk was a big believer in manifest destiny. He got the Oregon territory and started the Mexican-American River.
Formed by abolitionists who wanted to ban slavery everywhere
Jefferson policy on indigenous Americans
American protective associationHeavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists
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Created in response to growing backlash from environmental disasters. Sought to place limits on pollution in the air and water
Indian appropriation act
A revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s.
Marshall planThe extensive economic aid plan to rebuild the European economy and encourage democracy
Popham ColonyBritian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left
Asiento SystemSystem that took slaves to the New World to work for the Spanish. Required that a tax be paid to the Spanish ruler for each slave brought over.
Pioneered vertical integration, where one company controls every stage of the manufacturing process
Convention of 1818
Pres. Johnson violated the tenure of office act, and impeachment failed by one vote
Positions on expansion of slaveryArgued that slavery was a constitutional right, wanted line established in the Missouri Compromise to extend all the way westward to the Pacific.
fourteen pointsWilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
British settlers wanted more land for growing tobacco and they stole it from the natives. The natives retaliated, which infuriated the colonists. When Governor William Berkeley refused to send troops, Nathanial Bacon led angry poor farmers on an attack against the natives, and then on farms owned by Governor Berkeley.
Anaconda planPlan to completely cut off the south by blockading southern ports and eventually the Mississippi river
Knights of labor
Anti-Saloon leagueWorked to close down saloons
Ruled that federal law trumps state law
Government support for railroads
White collar workers
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
Secret ballot
FederalismThe division of powers between different levels of government.
Increased nativismIncreased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years.
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
Scopes Monkey trialIn 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.
Sioux wars
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.
Cash and CarryRoosevelt persuaded Congress to pass a looser version of the neutrality act that allowed anyone to purchase arms from the U.S. as long as they paid in cash and used their own ships to transport it
Secret meeting between delegates of 6 states to discuss how to fix the articles of confederation