Baker vs. Carr
Mandated fair congressional districts
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.
Cash and Carry
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Growth of immigration
16 million immigrants (mostly from Europe) came looking for better economic opportunities
The idea that each representative in parliament represented the empire as a whole, and therefore, the colonies were represented.
alien laws
authorized the president to deport "aliens" and permitted their arrest imprisonment and deportation during war time
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
French revolution
Ambassador from France came to America to encourage Americans to side with the French. Washington declared neutrality, but the ambassador remained in America to not get beheaded back home.
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Wanted to keep Germany weak so they wouldn't pose a threat.
Wanted to extract reparations for all the damage Germany had caused
Jackson Vetos Second Bank of the U.S.
Supported by Henry Clay and created under the American system
Rise 0f Chesapeake slavery
Laws 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
Populist party
Wanted 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
Watts Riots of 1965
After the arrest of a black motorist by white officers, rioters killed over 30 people and destroyed hundreds of buildings in Los Angeles
Puritan culture
Family seen as foundation of social fabric
Democratic Republicans
Tammany Hall
The most famous political machine organized and met the needs of immigrants and the poor in exchange for votes
Spanish colonization
Colo
Expansion of democracy
Voting rights were expanded to all white males
Haymarket square riot
Anarchists set off a bomb during a Knights of labor protest in Chicago for an 8-hour workweek. Many people began to see the labor movement as violent and radical
First major recession in the United States
National Grange movement
Social and educational collective aimed at brining farmers together. Soon became political to lobby for farmers
Anti-Saloon league
Southern baptists
18th amendment passed
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Editor of a newspaper editorialized against lynching and jim crow. She fled north due to threats against her
Roanoke Colony
Britians first colony, established in outer banks, NC. When they came back, it was abandonded
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
Written by Thomas Jefferson. Declared the colonies an independent country from Britain. Included a statement of intent, list of grievances, and a conclusion that dissolved ties with Britain
