Haymarket square riot
Anarchists set off a bomb during a Knights of labor protest in Chicago for an 8-hour workweek. Many people began to see the labor movement as violent and radical
Indian nations were assigned land called reservations. However this land was much less than before, and many decided to just keep following buffalo
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
Pres. Johnson violated the tenure of office act, and impeachment failed by one vote
Great railroad strike
Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Shay’s rebellion
Farmers had to take debt because they weren’t getting paid. Their land was being repossessed so they rebelled and closed the courts. They used Republican ideals to justify it.
Ethan Allen and the Green mountain boys surround fort Ticonderoga, steal it's cannons, and bring them back to Boston
American temperance society
Focused on working men. Established over 5,000 chapters across the nation
Compromise of 1850
California and New Mexico wanted to enter the union as free states.
Henry Clay created compromise: New Mexico and Utah would vote on slavery, California would be admitted as a free state, Slavery would be banned in Washington D.C., and there would be a new fugitive slave act
Crisis in American values
Roanoke Colony
Fighting broke out between the pro and anti-slavery factions
British impressment
Supported by Henry Clay and created under the American system
Compromise of 1877
The contested election was decided by a Republican-leaning committee the obv chose the Republican candidate. Democrats threatened to filibuster
Market revolution
Big stick diplomacy
Mass culture
The growing popularity of technologies like movies and the radio meant that everyone was listening to the same things, which helped create a more unified culture and distinct identity
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Bessemer process
Enabled manufacturers to produce huge quantities of steel
Cesar Chavez
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.
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
Espionage Act of 1917
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
Age of passion
Politics was very negative with the rise of political parties, political violence, and deep political divisions
Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
Brown v. Board of education
The Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were inherently unequal and schools had to be integrated. Overturned plessy v. Ferguson from 1896
authorized the president to deport "aliens" and permitted their arrest imprisonment and deportation during war time
