Compromise of 1877 The contested election was decided by a Republican-leaning committee the obv chose the Republican candidate. Democrats threatened to filibuster
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First political parties
Jefferson policy on indigenous Americans
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.
Immigration Quotas
Upton Sinclair
Mexican-American war Disputes over the Texas border sparked the conflict. American troops made it all the way to Mexico city.
Baker vs. Carr Mandated fair congressional districts
Self-determination Act of 1975 Gave Native Americans much greater control over their lands, education, and law enforcement
Republican party formed A coalition of free soilers and whigs and northern democrats who's goal was to stop the spread of slavery.
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)
Jay treaty
Effects of the War of 1812 Confirmed 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.
Johnson impeached
Lend-Lease Act Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
Federalism The division of powers between different levels of government.
Phyllis Schlafly Organized the conservative opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment
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Hartford Convention Federalists met in opposition to the war of 1812, and even argued that new england should suceed.
Gold was discovered in California, population skyrocketed
Jim Crow laws
1920's economic boom
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
British impressment The British continued to kidnap american sailors. Washington sent John Jay to london to negotiate
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Anaconda plan Plan to completely cut off the south by blockading southern ports and eventually the Mississippi river
George Washington's Presidency
Louisiana purchase Napoleon needed money to quell the Haitian revolution, so he sold the Louisiana territory, and Jefferson bought. This was controversial because the constitution didn't specify how to add territory to the union.
The Albany conference
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.
Praying towns
Baker vs. Carr
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The plan for representation favored by large states. It called for 2 houses with population based representation and a strong national government.
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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Marshall plan
Noah Webster's dictionary standardized the spelling and pronunciation of American language
Would prohibit slavery in Missouri if it was admitted into the union
Niagra movement Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
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
Laissez-faire economics
Assimilationist movement Wanted to end indian culture by forcing them to assimilate to American values.
Lend-Lease Act Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
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Great railroad strike Railroad companies cut salaries due to a recession. Railroad workers went on strike in 11 states. When the strike got violent, 11 people were killed before President Hayes sent in federal troops
Sherman antitrust act Made monopolizing an entire market illegal
Formed by abolitionists who wanted to ban slavery everywhere
John Brown
Counter culture A movement, mostly among young people who cast off societal restraint with rebellious clothing and experimental drug use
Younger Americans who had been born after the revolution, were ardent nationalists, and wanted war with Britain to invade Florida and Canada.
Plymouth Colony settled by the Pilgrims. It eventually merged with Massachusetts Bay colony.
Bacons rebellion British settlers wanted more land for growing tobacco and they stole it from the natives. The natives retaliated, which infuriated the colonists. When Governor William Berkeley refused to send troops, Nathanial Bacon led angry poor farmers on an attack against the natives, and then on farms owned by Governor Berkeley.
American protective association
Booker T. Washington
Henry Clay's American system Federally funded internal improvements, protective tariffs, and the re-establishment of the bank of the united states.
Phyllis Schlafly
Indian appropriation act congress sparked a new fight with the Sioux, by passing a law that nullified all previous treaties made with native Americans
civic virtue the character of a good participant in a system of gov
Cash and Carry Roosevelt persuaded Congress to pass a looser version of the neutrality act that allowed anyone to purchase arms from the U.S. as long as they paid in cash and used their own ships to transport it
American federation of labor Grew to over a million members by 1901 and had some modest successes
An extension of the New Deal: War on Poverty Office of Economic Opportunity, Medicare, Medicaid, immigration act
Attitudes towards Germany
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