Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists
The great migration
N.O.W.
Advocated for women's rights using many of the same tactics as the civil rights movement
Attitudes towards Germany
Pendleton Act
Expansion of democracy
Voting rights were expanded to all white males
George Washington's Presidency
Texan independence
Americans had been settling in Texas since the 1820s. The southerners outnumbered actual Mexicans and had brought their slaves. The Mexican government outlawed slavery and mandated catholicism.
Big stick diplomacy
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Spanish colonization
Colonized to extract wealth through mining and cash crops
7 years war
A dispute over a French fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
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
Georgia government
Louisiana purchase
Napoleon needed money to quell the Haitian revolution, so he sold the Louisiana territory, and Jefferson bought. This was controversial because the constitution didn't specify how to add territory to the union.
Marbury vs. Madison
Broke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves
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
2nd Continental Congress
How would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army
How would they pay for it? New currency
Tariff of 1828
Raised import duties up to 50%. Supported by industrial northerners and hated by southerners who relied on imports
Jefferson and Hamilton agreed to pass Hamilton's financial plan in exchange for making Washington D.C. the Capital of the country
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
End of the federalists
Lend-Lease Act
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
John D. Rockefeller
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
NAWSA
Worked to secure voting rights for women
Gospel of wealth
Flappers
First great awakening
Nat turners rebellion
A young slave organized a rebellion believing that god had told him to do so. He and his followers killed over 50 people
