Jim Crow laws
Forced segregation and prevented african americans from exercising their civil liberties
Market revolution
The linking of northern industries with western and southern farms which was created by advances in agriculture, industry, communication, and transportation
Britian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left
Very strict. Max land ownership, no slavery, alcohol, or Catholics. By 1740's Georgians wanted normal english liberties so these restrictions went away.
War hawkes
Younger Americans who had been born after the revolution, were ardent nationalists, and wanted war with Britain to invade Florida and Canada.
Zimmermann telegram
Government support for railroads
Railroads supported by the government through money and land grants
Panic of 1893
A severe economic depression during which nearly a quarter of railroads declared bankruptcy. This caused bankers to buy up many of the railroads, leading to consolidation.
Pure food and drug act
Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
Teddy Roosevelt sent an American fleet to attack the Spanish colony. They staged a ground invasion in collaboration with Filipino nationalists and overthrew the Spanish, before buying it from them
Railroads
Massive extension of the railroad system created a truly national market for goods
British beliefs after 7 years war
They viewed the colonies as subordinates. They had spent billions on defending them, and thought they'd want to help pay the debt.
Dawes act
Broke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves
Puritan culture
Enabled manufacturers to produce huge quantities of steel
Plan to completely cut off the south by blockading southern ports and eventually the Mississippi river
American federation of labor
Grew to over a million members by 1901 and had some modest successes
Federally funded internal improvements, protective tariffs, and the re-establishment of the bank of the united states.
Assimilationist movement
Wanted to end indian culture by forcing them to assimilate to American values.
Mexican-American war
Disputes over the Texas border sparked the conflict. American troops made it all the way to Mexico city.
Cash and Carry
Roosevelt persuaded Congress to pass a looser version of the neutrality act that allowed anyone to purchase arms from the U.S. as long as they paid in cash and used their own ships to transport it
Charles Finney
New york preacher who spoke powerfully with images that common folks could understand.
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
A woman's identity and sense of purpose revolved around child-bearing and making her home comfortable for her husband.
violent tax protest from 1791-1794.
the whiskey was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by president Washington to pay for the war. It unfairly burdened poor farmers west of the Appalachian mountains because they couldn't do business anymore
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.
American protective association
Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists
First great awakening
