The New Jersey plan
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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.
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.
Bessemer process
Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
Panic of 1819
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Charles Finney New york preacher who spoke powerfully with images that common folks could understand.
Whigs
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Unrestricted submarine warfare Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Treaty of New Echota
National union open to ALL laborers. Wanted to end child labor and end trusts
Spanish colonization
Praying towns
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Worked to close down saloons
Radical Republicans
The Albany conference
Attacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.
Stopped the president from removing a member of their cabinet without congressional approval (Johnson had tried to remove his secretary of war, who was a radical Republican)
Dawes act Broke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves
Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists
Americans had been settling in Texas since the 1820s. The southerners outnumbered actual Mexicans and had brought their slaves. The Mexican government outlawed slavery and mandated catholicism.
Civil rights act of 1866 All African Americans were citizens of the United States
Positions on expansion of slavery
Split from the rest of the baptist church because the northern baptists were abolitionists
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A severe economic depression during which nearly a quarter of railroads declared bankruptcy. This caused bankers to buy up many of the railroads, leading to consolidation.
Britain didn't want to spend more money defending the colonies from the natives, so they banned settling beyond the Appalachian mountains
New deal
New American identity Noah Webster's dictionary standardized the spelling and pronunciation of American language
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)
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Dawes act Broke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves
Texan independence Americans had been settling in Texas since the 1820s. The southerners outnumbered actual Mexicans and had brought their slaves. The Mexican government outlawed slavery and mandated catholicism.
7 years war A dispute over a french fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
Federalists Strong national government
All paper products sold in the colonies had to be stamped and pay a small tax. It spurred on revolutionary ideals.
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Assembly line A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
First political parties Divisions over neutrality in the French revolution, the Jay treaty, the financial plan, and existing sectionalism created the first political parties.
Secret ballot Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
Olive branch petition Congress wanted king George to intervene on their behalf and end the violence. He didn’t read it.
between US and spain, defined border US and spanish florida, guranteed US navigation rights in mississippi river
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.
Free Soil Party Formed by abolitionists who wanted to ban slavery everywhere
Jay treaty
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Square deal When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
Meat inspection act Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
National Grange movement
Battle of Bunker hill British won, but had many casualties. They eventually abandoned Boston
Advocated countering white violence with black violence
Agreement with Britain that removed military ships from the great lakes.
alien laws authorized the president to deport "aliens" and permitted their arrest imprisonment and deportation during war time
Andrew Carnegie Pioneered vertical integration, where one company controls every stage of the manufacturing process
Forced segregation and prevented african americans from exercising their civil liberties
N.O.W.
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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Market revolution The linking of northern industries with western and southern farms which was created by advances in agriculture, industry, communication, and transportation
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
Korematsu vs. U.S. Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Created in response to growing backlash from environmental disasters. Sought to place limits on pollution in the air and water
Positions on expansion of slavery Argued that slavery was a constitutional right, wanted line established in the Missouri Compromise to extend all the way westward to the Pacific.
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