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
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Big stick diplomacyAn aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Charles FinneyNew york preacher who spoke powerfully with images that common folks could understand.
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Massive extension of the railroad system created a truly national market for goods
Secret ballot
Niagra movementLed by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
Treaty of New EchotaSneaky deal that exchanged Cherokee land in Georgia for a reservation territory west of the Mississippi River.
They viewed the colonies as subordinates. They had spent billions on defending them, and thought they'd want to help pay the debt.
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Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Populist partyWanted to correct the concentration of power held by banks and trusts. Proposed the Omaha platform: Direct election of senators, more referendums, graduated income tax, and an 8-hour workday
Bessemer processEnabled manufacturers to produce huge quantities of steel
Connecticut compromiseCongress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation.
Madison declared war. "Would Americans remain independent or become colonists again?"
Election of 1844James k. Polk was a big believer in manifest destiny. He got the Oregon territory and started the Mexican-American River.
Sit-in movementThousands of black folks sat a segregated food counters and refused to move until they were taken out by force and jailed
Zimmermann telegramGermany solicited Mexico to become an ally of theirs, and in return they would help Mexico regain the land that they had lost in the Mexican-American war.
Camp meetings with huge sermons, christian revival. In contrast to first great awakening, which focused on personal moral reformation, second one emphasized moral reformation of society
Ghost dance movementnationwide movement of resistance. They began to believe that if they took up the ritualistic ghost dance, that their ancestors would return and drive the Americans out.
Andrew CarnegiePioneered vertical integration, where one company controls every stage of the manufacturing process
McCulloch vs MarylandRuled that federal law trumps state law
American imperialismIdeas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
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Convention of 1818
Effects of the War of 1812Confirmed 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.
Ida B. WellsEditor of a newspaper editorialized against lynching and jim crow. She fled north due to threats against her
pinckney's treatybetween US and spain, defined border US and spanish florida, guranteed US navigation rights in mississippi river
Articles of confederationLooked 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
Immigration QuotasLimited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
alien lawsauthorized the president to deport "aliens" and permitted their arrest imprisonment and deportation during war time
The areas where both colonists and native people would trade and coexist
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Corrupt political bosses and their followers
Voting Rights Act of 1965Prohibited racial discrimination in the voting booth
Jackson Vetos Second Bank of the U.S.
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Containment
A young slave organized a rebellion believing that god had told him to do so. He and his followers killed over 50 people
Manifest destinyAmericans believed they had a God-given right to have a nation from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
Southern resistance to integrationArgued that the Supreme Court had engaged in a gross abuse of power
Focused on working men. Established over 5,000 chapters across the nation
Massachusetts Bay ColonyColony founded by John Winthrop, part of the Great Puritan Migration, founded by puritans. Had a theocratic republic. "City upon a hill"
Booker T. Washingtonformer 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
Wilmot ProvisoAn amendment to a law in congress that stipulated that any land gained in the Mexican-American war wouldn't be ineligible for the spread of slavery. Symbolized the growing tension over westward expansion and slavery.
There was an extreme lack of government regulation of the economy at the time
Charles Finney
Ambassador from France came to America to encourage Americans to side with the French. Washington declared neutrality, but the ambassador remained in America to not get beheaded back home.
Spanish colonizationColonized to extract wealth through mining and cash crops
Texan independence
End of the federalists
Argued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
Virtual representationThe idea that each representative in parliament represented the empire as a whole, and therefore, the colonies were represented.
Indian appropriation act
White supremacy
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Shay’s rebellion
Black codesRestricted the civil rights of african americans in the south. Made it harder to vote, own property, even banned them from testifying against white people
Pullman strikeAfter a railroad car manufacturer cut wages, and the union tried to negotiate, the company failed them all. The railroad union decided to not work on any trains with Pullman cars in them. The railroad owners tied the Pullman cars to mail trains in order to get the government to keep them moving, and the union members were jailed
American protective associationHeavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists
Secret meeting between delegates of 6 states to discuss how to fix the articles of confederation
Progressive's concernsRising power of big businesses
Uncertainties in the economy
Violence between labor groups and employers
Influence of political machines
Jim Crow segregation
Rights of women