Booker T. Washington
Southern baptists
Split from the rest of the baptist church because the northern baptists were abolitionists
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Wilmot Proviso
An amendment to a law in congress that stipulated that any land gained in the Mexican-American war wouldn't be ineligible for the spread of slavery. Symbolized the growing tension over westward expansion and slavery.
Townshend Acts
In opposing the stamp act, the colonists said trade should be regulated instead. Parliament passed the townshend acts and began taxing imports and exports.
Sherman antitrust act
Made monopolizing an entire market illegal
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
Whigs
New party led by Henry Clay. Main difference was disagreement over federal power
Hola
Hello
Assimilationist movement
Connecticut compromise
Johnson impeached
Pres. Johnson violated the tenure of office act, and impeachment failed by one vote
Bacons rebellion
British settlers wanted more land for growing tobacco and they stole it from the natives. The natives retaliated, which infuriated the colonists. When Governor William Berkeley refused to send troops, Nathanial Bacon led angry poor farmers on an attack against the natives, and then on farms owned by Governor Berkeley.
Pushed hard for civil rights, wanted to punish the south. Shifted the process of reconstruction from president to congress
Asiento System
System that took slaves to the New World to work for the Spanish. Required that a tax be paid to the Spanish ruler for each slave brought over.
Sedition act of 1918
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Got the royal charter for Georgia because he wanted to establish a colony for the "worthy poor" (the people in debtors prisions). England also wanted protection from Spanish Florida.
President Jefferson established an embargo on foreign trade in retaliation for Britain and France attacks on American ships.
Cold war
A conflict between two belligerents where neither engages in conflict with the other
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Henry Clay's American system
Federalists
Noah Webster's dictionary standardized the spelling and pronunciation of American language
Hoovervilles
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
virginia and kentucky resolutions
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
Niagra movement
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.
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Election of 1860
Pequot war
