Nixon's appointments (who he'd assumed who be conservative) ruled in favor of abortion rights
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Niagra movementLed by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
Georgia governmentVery strict. Max land ownership, no slavery, alcohol, or Catholics. By 1740's Georgians wanted normal english liberties so these restrictions went away.
Increased nativism
Homestead actGave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years.
RailroadsMassive extension of the railroad system created a truly national market for goods
Radical RepublicansPushed hard for civil rights, wanted to punish the south. Shifted the process of reconstruction from president to congress
Thomas GageThe new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws
Andrew Carnegie
FederalistsStrong national government
John D. Rockefeller
Puritan culture
Bessemer processEnabled manufacturers to produce huge quantities of steel
drafted by thomas jefferson and james madison, claimed that alien and sedition acts were unconstitutional and overstepped federal authority under the constitition, and could therefore be nullified by the states
Rising power of big businesses
Uncertainties in the economy
Violence between labor groups and employers
Influence of political machines
Jim Crow segregation
Rights of women
Granted the Union control of the entire Mississippi River. Cut the confederacy in half
Madison declared war. "Would Americans remain independent or become colonists again?"
Panic of 1893
Johnathan Edwards
Election of 1800Rematch 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
Dawes actBroke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves
Mass culture
American protective association
fourteen pointsWilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
From 1820 to 1840 nearly 2 million immigrants (mainly from Germany and Ireland) showed up
2nd Continental Congress
Henry Clay's American systemFederally funded internal improvements, protective tariffs, and the re-establishment of the bank of the united states.
Jacob RiisA photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
There was an extreme lack of government regulation of the economy at the time
The linking of northern industries with western and southern farms which was created by advances in agriculture, industry, communication, and transportation
The great migration
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Korematsu vs. U.S.Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Gospel of wealthAndrew Carnegie argued that those with wealth should invest it into society
Worked to secure voting rights for women
Popham ColonyBritian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left
First great awakening
Populist partyWanted to correct the concentration of power held by banks and trusts. Proposed the Omaha platform: Direct election of senators, more referendums, graduated income tax, and an 8-hour workday
Roger Williams
Direct election of senatorsGave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
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.
Tallmadge amendment
Philippines
Gold was discovered in California, population skyrocketed
Marshall plan
Views on immigrationFeared that factory owners would use immigrants to keep wages low and to replace striking workers
Black PanthersAdvocated violence when necessary in defense of black rights
Election of 1797
Free Soil PartyFormed by abolitionists who wanted to ban slavery everywhere
Charles Finney
fourteen pointsWilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
Puritan cultureFamily seen as foundation of social fabric
Virtual representationThe idea that each representative in parliament represented the empire as a whole, and therefore, the colonies were represented.
Dawes actBroke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves
Lexington and ConcordeBritish troops marched to take a militia's weapons. They we're beaten back and chased back to boston by militia minutemen
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Lend-Lease Act
Panic of 1819
Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilegeOn his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs
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.
Wilmot Proviso
Rise 0f Chesapeake slaveryLaws helped codify racial differneces. They wanted to prevent the growth of the free black population by banning interracial marriage. Also slavery was becoming cheaper than indentured servitude