Bessemer process
Advocated for women's rights using many of the same tactics as the civil rights movement
After the arrest of a black motorist by white officers, rioters killed over 30 people and destroyed hundreds of buildings in Los Angeles
Malcom X
Advocated countering white violence with black violence
Wanted 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
Panic of 1819
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.
A coalition of free soilers and whigs and northern democrats who's goal was to stop the spread of slavery.
Tariff of 1828
Raised import duties up to 50%. Supported by industrial northerners and hated by southerners who relied on imports
Battle of Vicksburg
Granted the Union control of the entire Mississippi River. Cut the confederacy in half
Cold war
A conflict between two belligerents where neither engages in conflict with the other
Texan independence
First political parties
John Brown
Cesar Chavez
Led the protests for fair labor for agricultural workers
sedition act
Marbury vs. Madison
On his way out of office, John Adams appointed 16 new judges. Jefferson refused to deliver some of these appointments. The Supreme Court established judicial review.
Election of 1824
The divisions within the Democratic-Republican party led them to choose 4 candidates, while Jackson's populist campaign won the popular vote, no candidate won enough electoral votes. Adams and Clay made a deal and the house voted for Adams.
New American identity
Palmer raids
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Views on immigration
Feared that factory owners would use immigrants to keep wages low and to replace striking workers
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.
Expanding the fur trade, later plantations in Louisiana
Baker vs. Carr
Mandated fair congressional districts
Federalism
Hoovervilles
Rush-Bagot pact
Agreement with Britain that removed military ships from the great lakes.
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
Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Age of passion
