Jim Crow lawsForced segregation and prevented african americans from exercising their civil liberties
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Market revolutionThe 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 hawkesYounger 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 railroadsRailroads supported by the government through money and land grants
Panic of 1893A 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
RailroadsMassive extension of the railroad system created a truly national market for goods
British beliefs after 7 years warThey viewed the colonies as subordinates. They had spent billions on defending them, and thought they'd want to help pay the debt.
Dawes actBroke 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 laborGrew to over a million members by 1901 and had some modest successes
Frozen!
Frozen!
Federally funded internal improvements, protective tariffs, and the re-establishment of the bank of the united states.
Assimilationist movementWanted to end indian culture by forcing them to assimilate to American values.
Mexican-American warDisputes over the Texas border sparked the conflict. American troops made it all the way to Mexico city.
Cash and CarryRoosevelt 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 FinneyNew york preacher who spoke powerfully with images that common folks could understand.
Unrestricted submarine warfareGermany 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 rebellionFarmers 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 associationHeavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists
First great awakening
Wanted to end indian culture by forcing them to assimilate to American values.
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
Hoovervilles
Argued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
Korematsu vs. U.S.Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Malcom XAdvocated countering white violence with black violence
White supremacyWhite supremacy continued to dominate. Secret societies continued to terrorize African Americans (and Catholics, jews, and immigrants)
Germany solicited Mexico to become an ally of theirs, and in return they would help Mexico regain the land that they had lost in the Mexican-American war.
Effects of the War of 1812Confirmed ability of a Republican Government to defend itself. Americans completed conquest of everything east of the Mississippi. War broke remaining indigenous power, and white settlers poured in to former native lands.
Jay treaty
Stopped the president from removing a member of their cabinet without congressional approval (Johnson had tried to remove his secretary of war, who was a radical Republican)
Ethan Allen and the Green mountain boys surround fort Ticonderoga, steal it's cannons, and bring them back to Boston
New york preacher who spoke powerfully with images that common folks could understand.
Cold warA conflict between two belligerents where neither engages in conflict with the other
FederalistsStrong national government
N.O.W.Advocated for women's rights using many of the same tactics as the civil rights movement
Checks and balancesDifferent branches of government could check each other to prevent abuse of power.
Bessemer processEnabled manufacturers to produce huge quantities of steel
Frozen!
Frozen!
Brown v. Board of educationThe Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were inherently unequal and schools had to be integrated. Overturned plessy v. Ferguson from 1896
American protective association
GI Bill
Popham ColonyBritian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left
Mass culture
Southern resistance to integrationArgued that the Supreme Court had engaged in a gross abuse of power
American temperance society
Many northerners opposed the expansion of slavery, and abolitionists despised the law. There were often riots when Southerners would try to bring back a runaway slave.
Interstate commerce actRequired railroad rates to be reasonable and just, and established a federal commission to oversee the railroads
Articles of confederationLooked to balance national coordination and states rights to prevent tyranny. It featured a unicameral legislature, but the federal government had no money and no military
Civil rights act of 1866All African Americans were citizens of the United States