Jay treaty
The areas where both colonists and native people would trade and coexist
Convention of 1818
More American fishing rights, set the U.S. - Canada border at the 49th parallel, and called for the joint-occupation of Oregon
Teddy Roosevelt sent an American fleet to attack the Spanish colony. They staged a ground invasion in collaboration with Filipino nationalists and overthrew the Spanish, before buying it from them
Election of 1860
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
Tariff of 1828
Raised import duties up to 50%. Supported by industrial northerners and hated by southerners who relied on imports
Starting in 1865 many Americans started pushing westward again after the interruption of the civil war
Compromise of 1850
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
International migration society
American protective association
Rush-Bagot pact
Baker vs. Carr
Mandated fair congressional districts
Charles Finney
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
Great depression
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
End of the federalists
Tenure of Office Act
Stopped the president from removing a member of their cabinet without congressional approval (Johnson had tried to remove his secretary of war, who was a radical Republican)
Andrew Carnegie
Pioneered vertical integration, where one company controls every stage of the manufacturing process
Social and educational collective aimed at brining farmers together. Soon became political to lobby for farmers
2nd Continental Congress
How would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army
How would they pay for it? New currency
Wilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
Sugar act
After the arrest of a black motorist by white officers, rioters killed over 30 people and destroyed hundreds of buildings in Los Angeles
joint-stock company
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.
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
Strong national government
civic virtue
the character of a good participant in a system of gov
Gospel of wealth
Andrew Carnegie argued that those with wealth should invest it into society
Bleeding Kansas
Fighting broke out between the pro and anti-slavery factions
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
