Heimler's History APUSH Review duel

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First great awakening A revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s.

First political parties Divisions over neutrality in the French revolution, the Jay treaty, the financial plan, and existing sectionalism created the first political parties.

Praying towns Towns in new england where native Americans were forced to live. They we're supposed to be for their protection, but really, it was to steal their land and convert them to christianity

Election of 1860

Reservation system Indian nations were assigned land called reservations. However this land was much less than before, and many decided to just keep following buffalo

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

Madison re-imposed the embargo on Britain because they continued to attack American ships

Phyllis Schlafly Organized the conservative opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment

Ruled that federal law trumps state law

Established the western hemisphere as a U.S.-dominated sphere of influence without European involvement.

Kansas-Nebraska act divided Nebraska territory into 2 sections, Kansas and Nebraska. Put slavery to a vote in each new state. Effectively overturned the Missouri compromise!

Attitudes towards Germany Wanted to keep Germany weak so they wouldn't pose a threat. Wanted to extract reparations for all the damage Germany had caused

Sugar act Reduced the tax on molasses, but strengthened the court system to end smuggling, making many wealthy smugglers angry.

Franklin D. Roosevelt elected Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.

Pendleton Act Political appointments were very corrupt after a guy shot the president because he didn't get a job, congress passed the Pendleton Act, which created an exam that was used for deciding who would get a job

Plymouth Colony settled by the Pilgrims. It eventually merged with Massachusetts Bay colony.

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

Articles of confederation Looked to balance national coordination and states rights to prevent tyranny. It featured a unicameral legislature, but the federal government had no money and no military

Colonized to extract wealth through mining and cash crops

Worked to secure voting rights for women

Prohibited prayers in school

virginia and kentucky resolutions drafted by thomas jefferson and james madison, claimed that alien and sedition acts were unconstitutional and overstepped federal authority under the constitition, and could therefore be nullified by the states

Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants

Chinese exclusion act

Harlem Renaissance

American federation of labor

Laissez-faire economics There was an extreme lack of government regulation of the economy at the time

Anaconda plan Plan to completely cut off the south by blockading southern ports and eventually the Mississippi river

Voting rights were expanded to all white males

Red Scare Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia

Andrew Carnegie

the Compromise of 1790

Britain 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.

Progressive's concerns Rising power of big businesses Uncertainties in the economy Violence between labor groups and employers Influence of political machines Jim Crow segregation Rights of women

Colonial attitude towards independence They didn’t want it. Initially the revolution was a petition to get the same rights as other British citizens

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

Secret ballot Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them

Roanoke Colony

Expansive view of federal power & loose constructionists

People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening

American temperance society Focused on working men. Established over 5,000 chapters across the nation

Lexington and Concorde

Direct election of senators Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business

Big stick diplomacy

Navigation Acts Colonists were required to ship certain products exclusively to England. These acts made colonists very angry because they were forbidden from trading with other countries.

John D. Rockefeller

Starting in 1865 many Americans started pushing westward again after the interruption of the civil war

Required railroad rates to be reasonable and just, and established a federal commission to oversee the railroads

Whigs New party led by Henry Clay. Main difference was disagreement over federal power

Madison re-imposed the embargo on Britain because they continued to attack American ships

Palmer raids The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations

Feared that factory owners would use immigrants to keep wages low and to replace striking workers

Annapolis convention Secret meeting between delegates of 6 states to discuss how to fix the articles of confederation

15th amendment

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

W.E.B. Dubois

An extension of the New Deal: War on Poverty Office of Economic Opportunity, Medicare, Medicaid, immigration act

Gold rush Gold was discovered in California, population skyrocketed

French and british continued to kidnap american sailors, so Adams sent ministers to negotiate. When they arrived, 3 agents demanded a bribe just to speak to the foreign minister. John Adams almost declared war.

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