Parliament repealed the stamp act, but enacted the declaratory act, saying they could pass any law they wanted.
Teddy Roosevelt progressivism
Believed the president should set the legislative agenda for Congress. He led congress to pass a series of laws on consumer protection and enviornmental conservation
Scopes Monkey trial
In 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.
White supremacy
White supremacy continued to dominate. Secret societies continued to terrorize African Americans (and Catholics, jews, and immigrants)
Economic and religious liberty
Decolonization
Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege
Republican party formed
Changes in farming
A new focus on cash-crops in the north and west, and a shift to more expensive mechanized farming methods put smaller farms out of business. Big trusts that farmers relied on (like railroads) also raised prices, making it even harder for farmers to make a living
alien laws
authorized the president to deport "aliens" and permitted their arrest imprisonment and deportation during war time
Railroads
Massive extension of the railroad system created a truly national market for goods
Tariff of 1828
Americans had been settling in Texas since the 1820s. The southerners outnumbered actual Mexicans and had brought their slaves. The Mexican government outlawed slavery and mandated catholicism.
Idea 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.
First great awakening
A revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s.
1920's economic boom
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Positions on expansion of slavery
Townshend Acts
In opposing the stamp act, the colonists said trade should be regulated instead. Parliament passed the townshend acts and began taxing imports and exports.
The middle ground
The areas where both colonists and native people would trade and coexist
Sugar act
Reduced the tax on molasses, but strengthened the court system to end smuggling, making many wealthy smugglers angry.
Madison declared war on great Britain
Dutch Wedge
New Netherlands separated England's northern and southern colonies, until they just took it with very little resistance
Confirmed ability of a Republican Government to defend itself. Americans completed conquest of everything east of the Mississippi. War broke remaining indigenous power, and white settlers poured in to former native lands.
Americans believed they had a God-given right to have a nation from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
Crisis in American values
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
Jefferson policy on indigenous Americans
He favored removing them to reservations beyond the Mississippi if they refused to "civilize" themselves. Some unified and began violently resisting with help from the British
Radical Republicans
The extensive economic aid plan to rebuild the European economy and encourage democracy
Restricted the civil rights of african americans in the south. Made it harder to vote, own property, even banned them from testifying against white people
Whigs
New party led by Henry Clay. Main difference was disagreement over federal power
