Jay treaty
Britain agreed to abandon outposts on the western frontier. In return the U.S. would favor trade with Britian. However, the treaty failed to address the british kidnapping, and American hatred of Britian caused riots.
Granted the Union control of the entire Mississippi River. Cut the confederacy in half
Wilmot Proviso
An amendment to a law in congress that stipulated that any land gained in the Mexican-American war wouldn't be ineligible for the spread of slavery. Symbolized the growing tension over westward expansion and slavery.
Square deal
When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
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
Jamestown
The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia by a joint stock company
Olive branch petition
Congress wanted king George to intervene on their behalf and end the violence. He didn’t read it.
Reservation system
Indian nations were assigned land called reservations. However this land was much less than before, and many decided to just keep following buffalo
White collar workers
All the industrialization created a new type of work for managers and administrators who ran the factories instead of working in them
A conflict between two belligerents where neither engages in conflict with the other
Pure food and drug act
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
James k. Polk was a big believer in manifest destiny. He got the Oregon territory and started the Mexican-American River.
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.
French revolution
Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
Election of 1800
Rematch 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
Virtual representation
The idea that each representative in parliament represented the empire as a whole, and therefore, the colonies were represented.
Germany solicited Mexico to become an ally of theirs, and in return they would help Mexico regain the land that they had lost in the Mexican-American war.
American federation of labor
Jefferson policy on indigenous Americans
He favored removing them to reservations beyond the Mississippi if they refused to "civilize" themselves. Some unified and began violently resisting with help from the British
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
Britian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left
Government support for railroads
Railroads supported by the government through money and land grants
A dispute over a french fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
An extension of the New Deal: War on Poverty
Office of Economic Opportunity, Medicare, Medicaid, immigration act
Henry Clay's American system
Townshend Acts
In opposing the stamp act, the colonists said trade should be regulated instead. Parliament passed the townshend acts and began taxing imports and exports.
Korematsu vs. U.S.
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Thomas Gage
The new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws
