Heimler's History APUSH Review duel

James Oglethorpe

Immigration Quotas

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

Brown v. Board of education

Watts Riots of 1965

Her refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger, and subsequent arrest sparked a massive bus boycott

Spanish-American War

Red scare House Unamerican activities community searched for communist influence in American society (Government, military, film industry, Boy Scouts)

Grew to over a million members by 1901 and had some modest successes

Lend-Lease Act Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed

Andrew Carnegie argued that those with wealth should invest it into society

Self-determination Act of 1975 Gave Native Americans much greater control over their lands, education, and law enforcement

Containment Truman took measures to contain the spread of communism. The U.S. would provide economic and military support to any country fighting communism

EPA Created in response to growing backlash from environmental disasters. Sought to place limits on pollution in the air and water

7 years war

Jacob Riis

Cult of domesticity

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

Harlem Renaissance Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience

Counter culture A movement, mostly among young people who cast off societal restraint with rebellious clothing and experimental drug use

British colonization Economic and religious liberty

Dutch colonization Fur trade and other economic reasons

Progressivism

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

Removed native americans from their land and sent them to reservations west of the Mississippi river.

Whigs

1920's politics A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.

Manifest destiny Americans believed they had a God-given right to have a nation from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

Espionage Act of 1917

civic virtue

Ida Tarbell Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902

Dutch colonization Fur trade and other economic reasons

Election of 1828

Johnathan Edwards Theologian and philosopher who objected to predestination and helped cause the first great awakening by preaching to large crowds

Colo

Declaration of Independence Written by Thomas Jefferson. Declared the colonies an independent country from Britain. Included a statement of intent, list of grievances, and a conclusion that dissolved ties with Britain

Anarchists set off a bomb during a Knights of labor protest in Chicago for an 8-hour workweek. Many people began to see the labor movement as violent and radical

Social and educational collective aimed at brining farmers together. Soon became political to lobby for farmers

International migration society Facilitated the migration of black people to africa

Dred Scott case A 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.

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

Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food

Philadelphia convention 12/13 states met to amend the articles of confederation. They eventually decided to draft a new constitution

Nixon's appointments (who he'd assumed who be conservative) ruled in favor of abortion rights

Roanoke Colony

Whiskey rebellion violent tax protest from 1791-1794. the whiskey was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by president Washington to pay for the war. It unfairly burdened poor farmers west of the Appalachian mountains because they couldn't do business anymore

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

Advocated violence when necessary in defense of black rights

15th amendment Protected voting rights of former slaves (in theory)

Strong national government

Cold war A conflict between two belligerents where neither engages in conflict with the other

Chinese exclusion act

Women's Christian Temperance Union Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members

Hartford Convention Federalists met in opposition to the war of 1812, and even argued that new england should suceed.

applied restrictions to immigration and speech in US made it a crime for americans to print, utter, or publish any false, scandalous, malicious writing about the government

Asiento System System 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.

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

War hawkes Younger Americans who had been born after the revolution, were ardent nationalists, and wanted war with Britain to invade Florida and Canada.

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

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