Stamp act congress
Delegates met in New York to send the "declaration of rights & grievances" to the king. They also organized a boycott of British goods.
Fries rebellion
National Grange movement
Social and educational collective aimed at brining farmers together. Soon became political to lobby for farmers
Free Soil Party
Formed by abolitionists who wanted to ban slavery everywhere
Knights of labor
civic virtue
applied restrictions to immigration and speech in US made it a crime for americans to print, utter, or publish any false, scandalous, malicious writing about the government
Southern baptists
Split from the rest of the baptist church because the northern baptists were abolitionists
Boston massacre
Parliament sent 1,000 troops to boston to enforce the townshend acts. Protesters began throwing snowballs, and eventually rocks at a group of soldiers. Someone fired a shot, and the soldiers killed 5 protesters
Fighting broke out between the pro and anti-slavery factions
First great awakening
A revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s.
Homestead act
Gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years.
Declaratory act
Parliament repealed the stamp act, but enacted the declaratory act, saying they could pass any law they wanted.
Common sense
Attacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.
Unrestricted submarine warfare
alien laws
authorized the president to deport "aliens" and permitted their arrest imprisonment and deportation during war time
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
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Made discrimination on the basis of race, religion, or sex illegal
Failures of the articles of confederation
France and others wanted their debt paid back, yet the national government didn’t have money. States had individual economies that didn’t collaborate.
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.
Worked to close down saloons
Dred Scott case
A slave in Missouri was taken to live in free Wisconsin, for two years, and he sued for his freedom. The Supreme Court ruled that slaves aren't citizens, and they are property so nobody can be deprived of their property without due process.
Secret ballot
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
American federation of labor
Johnathan Edwards
Theologian and philosopher who objected to predestination and helped cause the first great awakening by preaching to large crowds
Provided resources to the poor to enrich the neighborhood. Largely led by women
Lexington and Concorde
British troops marched to take a militia's weapons. They we're beaten back and chased back to boston by militia minutemen
Expansion of democracy
A conflict between two belligerents where neither engages in conflict with the other
Panic of 1819
First major recession in the United States
