Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Sinking of the Lusitania
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
First contested election in American history, won by John Adams (Washington's vice president)
Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
By 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau declared that the frontier was officially settled
Failures of the articles of confederation
Jefferson's presidency
He himself owned hundreds of slaves. He banned the importation of slaves. Once the Atlantic trade dried up, domestic trade increased, creating the second middle passage
Established the southern border of the United States and granted a huge portion of land known as the Mexican cession which included California and new Mexico
Fries rebellion
Farmers in southeast Pennsylvania stopped paying taxes for the larger military. John Fries led a peaceful protest, but John Adams ordered federal troops to stop the protest, and they made mass arrests, assaulted newspaper editors, and almost executed John Fries.
Ida Tarbell
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
New American identity
Noah Webster's dictionary standardized the spelling and pronunciation of American language
Spanish-American War
Booker T. Washington
Henry Clay's American system
Booker T. Washington
former slave who trained other black men to become economically self-sufficient, and argued this was a better way to gain power than to campaign for better voting rights
The New Jersey plan
Settlement houses
Provided resources to the poor to enrich the neighborhood. Largely led by women
Anne Hutchinson
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
Red Scare
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
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
Stamp act congress
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
Convention of 1818
More American fishing rights, set the U.S. - Canada border at the 49th parallel, and called for the joint-occupation of Oregon
Gospel of wealth
Andrew Carnegie argued that those with wealth should invest it into society
Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege
On his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs
Hoovervilles
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
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
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
