sedition act 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
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Southern resistance to integration
the Compromise of 1790 Jefferson and Hamilton agreed to pass Hamilton's financial plan in exchange for making Washington D.C. the Capital of the country
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
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.
EPA
Red scare House Unamerican activities community searched for communist influence in American society (Government, military, film industry, Boy Scouts)
1) Establish the U.S. credit worthiness 2) Unify the states' debt 3) Create a national bank 4) Whiskey tax to pay for the revolution 5) Establish tariffs to protect american businesses
Praying towns
John D. Rockefeller
Korematsu vs. U.S.
Homestead act
Anaconda plan Plan to completely cut off the south by blockading southern ports and eventually the Mississippi river
Johnson impeached
Great depression The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
New American identity Noah Webster's dictionary standardized the spelling and pronunciation of American language
Harlem Renaissance Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
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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.
18th amendment passed
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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.
King Philip's war King Metacomet (King Philip), forges a massive military alliance with other native tribes and attacked Massachusetts in retaliation for the praying towns
Palmer raids
The New Jersey plan The plan for representation favored by small states. It called for 1 house of Congress with each state getting equal representation.
Upton Sinclair
Olive branch petition Congress wanted king George to intervene on their behalf and end the violence. He didn’t read it.
The great migration
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
Pure food and drug act Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Election of 1844
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between US and spain, defined border US and spanish florida, guranteed US navigation rights in mississippi river
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Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
Articles of confederation Looked 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
NAWSA Worked to secure voting rights for women
Increased nativism Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
From 1820 to 1840 nearly 2 million immigrants (mainly from Germany and Ireland) showed up
XYZ affair
Georgia government Very strict. Max land ownership, no slavery, alcohol, or Catholics. By 1740's Georgians wanted normal english liberties so these restrictions went away.
Assembly line A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Battle of Vicksburg Granted the Union control of the entire Mississippi River. Cut the confederacy in half
Laissez-faire economics
Progressive's concerns
W.E.B. Dubois Argued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege On his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs
Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
Delegates met in New York to send the "declaration of rights & grievances" to the king. They also organized a boycott of British goods.
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New deal
Red Scare Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
The Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were inherently unequal and schools had to be integrated. Overturned plessy v. Ferguson from 1896
Annapolis convention Secret meeting between delegates of 6 states to discuss how to fix the articles of confederation
Nat turners rebellion
Lexington and Concorde
Manifest destiny Americans believed they had a God-given right to have a nation from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
Checks and balances
Dutch Wedge New Netherlands separated England's northern and southern colonies, until they just took it with very little resistance
French colonization Expanding the fur trade, later plantations in Louisiana
Election of 1797 First contested election in American history, won by John Adams (Washington's vice president)
Booker T. Washington former 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
Korematsu vs. U.S. Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
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