Treaty of New Echota
Over 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination
American imperialism
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Failures of the articles of confederation
Proclamation of 1763
Britain didn't want to spend more money defending the colonies from the natives, so they banned settling beyond the Appalachian mountains
Southern baptists
Split from the rest of the baptist church because the northern baptists were abolitionists
Direct election of senators
Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
Containment
2nd Continental Congress
How would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army
How would they pay for it? New currency
Stamp act
All paper products sold in the colonies had to be stamped and pay a small tax. It spurred on revolutionary ideals.
Jay treaty
They didn’t want it. Initially the revolution was a petition to get the same rights as other British citizens
From 1820 to 1840 nearly 2 million immigrants (mainly from Germany and Ireland) showed up
Progressivism
Teddy Roosevelt progressivism
Believed the president should set the legislative agenda for Congress. He led congress to pass a series of laws on consumer protection and enviornmental conservation
Baker vs. Carr
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
Expansion of democracy
A young slave organized a rebellion believing that god had told him to do so. He and his followers killed over 50 people
Views on immigration
Feared that factory owners would use immigrants to keep wages low and to replace striking workers
Wanted to keep Germany weak so they wouldn't pose a threat.
Wanted to extract reparations for all the damage Germany had caused
Annapolis convention
Secret meeting between delegates of 6 states to discuss how to fix the articles of confederation
Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
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
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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.
18th amendment passed
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Wilmot Proviso
Made monopolizing an entire market illegal
