Led a small raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. His goal was to arm the southern slave population and incite a slave rebellion
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
James Oglethorpe
Got the royal charter for Georgia because he wanted to establish a colony for the "worthy poor" (the people in debtors prisions). England also wanted protection from Spanish Florida.
Reservation system
Forced segregation and prevented african americans from exercising their civil liberties
Annapolis convention
congress sparked a new fight with the Sioux, by passing a law that nullified all previous treaties made with native Americans
Southern resistance to integration
Argued that the Supreme Court had engaged in a gross abuse of power
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.
Watts Riots of 1965
After the arrest of a black motorist by white officers, rioters killed over 30 people and destroyed hundreds of buildings in Los Angeles
Townshend Acts
In opposing the stamp act, the colonists said trade should be regulated instead. Parliament passed the townshend acts and began taxing imports and exports.
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.
Cult of domesticity
A woman's identity and sense of purpose revolved around child-bearing and making her home comfortable for her husband.
Phyllis Schlafly
Organized the conservative opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment
Civil rights act of 1866
All African Americans were citizens of the United States
Fugitive slave act
Many northerners opposed the expansion of slavery, and abolitionists despised the law. There were often riots when Southerners would try to bring back a runaway slave.
2nd Continental Congress
How would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army
How would they pay for it? New currency
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
Sugar act
Reduced the tax on molasses, but strengthened the court system to end smuggling, making many wealthy smugglers angry.
Cold war
Starting in 1865 many Americans started pushing westward again after the interruption of the civil war
Split from the rest of the baptist church because the northern baptists were abolitionists
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.
Meat inspection act
Manifest destiny
Americans believed they had a God-given right to have a nation from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
Roanoke Colony
Election of 1824
Chinese exclusion act
Nativists successfully pressured Congress to stop the flow of Chinese immigrants who were coming over during the gold rush.
New deal
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
Whigs
New party led by Henry Clay. Main difference was disagreement over federal power
