Government support for railroads Railroads supported by the government through money and land grants
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Ghost dance movement nationwide 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.
Wilmot Proviso
Gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years.
American imperialism
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
Indian Removal Act of 1830 Removed native americans from their land and sent them to reservations west of the Mississippi river.
Interstate commerce act Required railroad rates to be reasonable and just, and established a federal commission to oversee the railroads
White collar workers All the industrialization created a new type of work for managers and administrators who ran the factories instead of working in them
Puritan culture
Mexican-American war Disputes over the Texas border sparked the conflict. American troops made it all the way to Mexico city.
1920's economic boom The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
Germany 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.
Sugar act
Phyllis Schlafly Organized the conservative opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment
Expansion of democracy Voting rights were expanded to all white males
British impressment
Big stick diplomacy
All paper products sold in the colonies had to be stamped and pay a small tax. It spurred on revolutionary ideals.
The contested election was decided by a Republican-leaning committee the obv chose the Republican candidate. Democrats threatened to filibuster
Split within the Democratic-Republican party Expansive view of federal power & loose constructionists
Monroe doctrine Established the western hemisphere as a U.S.-dominated sphere of influence without European involvement.
Virtual representation
Spanish colonization Colonized to extract wealth through mining and cash crops
In opposing the stamp act, the colonists said trade should be regulated instead. Parliament passed the townshend acts and began taxing imports and exports.
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
Lend-Lease Act Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
End of the federalists The war had revived the struggling party thanks to the anti-war movement. Now that the war was over, federalist support collapsed for good.
Assimilationist movement
Black Panthers Advocated violence when necessary in defense of black rights
Southern resistance to integration
Jamestown
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.
7 years war
French revolution 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.
Reconstruction acts
Indentured Servants Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
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.
Theologian and philosopher who objected to predestination and helped cause the first great awakening by preaching to large crowds
The embargo
Lexington and Concorde British troops marched to take a militia's weapons. They we're beaten back and chased back to boston by militia minutemen
Advocated for women's rights using many of the same tactics as the civil rights movement
Progressive's concerns
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Bleeding Kansas
Sugar act
A Puritan woman who was well learned that disagreed with the Puritan Church in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her actions resulted in her banishment from the colony, and later took part in the formation of Rhode Island. She displayed the importance of questioning authority.
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
fourteen points Wilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
Anaconda plan Plan to completely cut off the south by blockading southern ports and eventually the Mississippi river
Upton Sinclair Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
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Mandated fair congressional districts
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Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
Meat inspection act Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Muckrakers Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
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Indian Removal Act of 1830 Removed native americans from their land and sent them to reservations west of the Mississippi river.
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
2nd Continental Congress How would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army How would they pay for it? New currency
James k. Polk was a big believer in manifest destiny. He got the Oregon territory and started the Mexican-American River.
1920's politics A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
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