Pushed hard for civil rights, wanted to punish the south. Shifted the process of reconstruction from president to congress
Muckrakers
Big stick diplomacy
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
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.
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
Great depression
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
American temperance society
A revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s.
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
1920's politics
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
Cult of domesticity
A woman's identity and sense of purpose revolved around child-bearing and making her home comfortable for her husband.
Annapolis convention
All African Americans were citizens of the United States
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.
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
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.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Made discrimination on the basis of race, religion, or sex illegal
pinckney's treaty
between US and spain, defined border US and spanish florida, guranteed US navigation rights in mississippi river
Ghost dance movement
Kansas-Nebraska act
divided Nebraska territory into 2 sections, Kansas and Nebraska. Put slavery to a vote in each new state. Effectively overturned the Missouri compromise!
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.
Mandated fair congressional districts
virginia and kentucky resolutions
drafted by thomas jefferson and james madison, claimed that alien and sedition acts were unconstitutional and overstepped federal authority under the constitition, and could therefore be nullified by the states
Forced segregation and prevented african americans from exercising their civil liberties
Free Soil Party
Formed by abolitionists who wanted to ban slavery everywhere
Tammany Hall
The most famous political machine organized and met the needs of immigrants and the poor in exchange for votes
Election of 1860
Lincoln campaigned on halting the expansion of slavery. He won without a single Southern electoral vote, prompting the south to realize they no longer any voice in the future of slavery in america
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.
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
