NAWSA
Worked to secure voting rights for women
Black codes
Restricted the civil rights of african americans in the south. Made it harder to vote, own property, even banned them from testifying against white people
Sedition act of 1918
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
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
Anne Hutchinson
Wilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
Boston massacre
Parliament sent 1,000 troops to boston to enforce the townshend acts. Protesters began throwing snowballs, and eventually rocks at a group of soldiers. Someone fired a shot, and the soldiers killed 5 protesters
Big stick diplomacy
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Checks and balances
Different branches of government could check each other to prevent abuse of power.
Henry Clay's American system
Federally funded internal improvements, protective tariffs, and the re-establishment of the bank of the united states.
Mandated fair congressional districts
Cult of domesticity
A woman's identity and sense of purpose revolved around child-bearing and making her home comfortable for her husband.
Popham Colony
Britian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left
Settlement houses
Debates over money
Rush-Bagot pact
Agreement with Britain that removed military ships from the great lakes.
Interstate commerce act
Sugar act
Expansion of democracy
Voting rights were expanded to all white males
An extension of the New Deal: War on Poverty
Office of Economic Opportunity, Medicare, Medicaid, immigration act
The plan for representation favored by small states. It called for 1 house of Congress with each state getting equal representation.
Harlem Renaissance
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Tammany Hall
By 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau declared that the frontier was officially settled
Red Scare
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
Supported by Henry Clay and created under the American system
Compromise of 1877
Gold rush
Lexington and Concorde
