Election of 1800Rematch between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. The Democratic republicans had finally figured out how to campaign in the media, and the Federalists were seen as elitist
Muckrakers
Voting Rights Act of 1965Prohibited racial discrimination in the voting booth
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John Brown
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Indentured ServantsColonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
Hamilton's financial plan1) 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
the Compromise of 1790Jefferson and Hamilton agreed to pass Hamilton's financial plan in exchange for making Washington D.C. the Capital of the country
A conflict between two belligerents where neither engages in conflict with the other
National union open to ALL laborers. Wanted to end child labor and end trusts
Laws helped codify racial differneces. They wanted to prevent the growth of the free black population by banning interracial marriage. Also slavery was becoming cheaper than indentured servitude
Radical RepublicansPushed hard for civil rights, wanted to punish the south. Shifted the process of reconstruction from president to congress
Sioux warsSioux initally won a deceive victory against the U.S. army.
Age of passion
Family seen as foundation of social fabric
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Palmer raidsThe AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Checks and balances
Labor unionsWorkers formed labor unions to have more negotiating power and fight for better pay and working conditions
Korematsu vs. U.S.Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Protected voting rights of former slaves (in theory)
Sedition act of 1918Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Battle of Bunker hillBritish won, but had many casualties. They eventually abandoned Boston
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
French revolutionAmbassador 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.
Big stick diplomacyAn aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Wanted to end indian culture by forcing them to assimilate to American values.
authorized the president to deport "aliens" and permitted their arrest imprisonment and deportation during war time
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.
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Connecticut compromiseCongress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation.
James OglethorpeGot 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.
France and others wanted their debt paid back, yet the national government didn’t have money. States had individual economies that didn’t collaborate.
Big stick diplomacyAn aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
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Monroe doctrineEstablished the western hemisphere as a U.S.-dominated sphere of influence without European involvement.
18th amendment passedBanned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Jefferson policy on indigenous Americans
Meat inspection act
Thomas GageThe new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws
National Grange movementSocial and educational collective aimed at brining farmers together. Soon became political to lobby for farmers
Positions on expansion of slaveryArgued that slavery was a constitutional right, wanted line established in the Missouri Compromise to extend all the way westward to the Pacific.
Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
Stamp act congress
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Spanish colonizationColo
Cash and CarryRoosevelt 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
Unrestricted submarine warfareGermany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
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John BrownLed a small raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. His goal was to arm the southern slave population and incite a slave rebellion
Franklin D. Roosevelt electedBelieved in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Civil rights act of 1866
Towns in new england where native Americans were forced to live. They we're supposed to be for their protection, but really, it was to steal their land and convert them to christianity
Nixon's appointments (who he'd assumed who be conservative) ruled in favor of abortion rights
After a railroad car manufacturer cut wages, and the union tried to negotiate, the company failed them all. The railroad union decided to not work on any trains with Pullman cars in them. The railroad owners tied the Pullman cars to mail trains in order to get the government to keep them moving, and the union members were jailed
GI BillGave WW2 veterans the opportunity to go to college for free (paid by the Government)
Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists
Corrupt political bosses and their followers
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passengerHer refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger, and subsequent arrest sparked a massive bus boycott