Red ScareAnti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
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Pioneered horizontal integration, where one company controls every seller in the market.
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Mass culture
Age of passionPolitics was very negative with the rise of political parties, political violence, and deep political divisions
15th amendment
Rush-Bagot pactAgreement with Britain that removed military ships from the great lakes.
Theologian and philosopher who objected to predestination and helped cause the first great awakening by preaching to large crowds
Supported by Henry Clay and created under the American system
Rise 0f Chesapeake slavery
Weak national government
Government support for railroadsRailroads supported by the government through money and land grants
Ethan Allen and the Green mountain boys surround fort Ticonderoga, steal it's cannons, and bring them back to Boston
A young slave organized a rebellion believing that god had told him to do so. He and his followers killed over 50 people
Populist partyWanted 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
Red scareHouse Unamerican activities community searched for communist influence in American society (Government, military, film industry, Boy Scouts)
Dutch colonizationFur trade and other economic reasons
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Brown v. Board of education
Bessemer process
former slave who trained other black men to become economically self-sufficient, and argued this was a better way to gain power than to campaign for better voting rights
Split within the Democratic-Republican partyExpansive view of federal power & loose constructionists
War hawkesYounger Americans who had been born after the revolution, were ardent nationalists, and wanted war with Britain to invade Florida and Canada.
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
Georgia governmentVery strict. Max land ownership, no slavery, alcohol, or Catholics. By 1740's Georgians wanted normal english liberties so these restrictions went away.
Colonists were required to ship certain products exclusively to England. These acts made colonists very angry because they were forbidden from trading with other countries.
Laissez-faire economics
Ida TarbellPublished a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Lend-Lease ActAllowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
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Great depression
Watts Riots of 1965After the arrest of a black motorist by white officers, rioters killed over 30 people and destroyed hundreds of buildings in Los Angeles
First contested election in American history, won by John Adams (Washington's vice president)
Market revolutionThe linking of northern industries with western and southern farms which was created by advances in agriculture, industry, communication, and transportation
Indian Removal Act of 1830Removed native americans from their land and sent them to reservations west of the Mississippi river.
Politics was very negative with the rise of political parties, political violence, and deep political divisions
Roger WilliamsA dissenter who clashed with the Massachusetts Puritans over separation of church and state and was banished in 1636, after which he founded the colony of Rhode Island to the south
New American identityNoah Webster's dictionary standardized the spelling and pronunciation of American language
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Olive branch petition
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Annapolis conventionSecret meeting between delegates of 6 states to discuss how to fix the articles of confederation
Divisions over neutrality in the French revolution, the Jay treaty, the financial plan, and existing sectionalism created the first political parties.
Gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years.
Sherman antitrust act
12/13 states met to amend the articles of confederation. They eventually decided to draft a new constitution
sedition actapplied restrictions to immigration and speech in US made it a crime for americans to print, utter, or publish any false, scandalous, malicious writing about the government
Direct election of senatorsGave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
Free Soil Party
Articles of confederation
Engel vs. VitaleProhibited prayers in school
Self-determination Act of 1975
Voting Rights Act of 1965Prohibited racial discrimination in the voting booth
White supremacy
Wilmot ProvisoAn 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.
Battle of VicksburgGranted the Union control of the entire Mississippi River. Cut the confederacy in half
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Convention of 1818More American fishing rights, set the U.S. - Canada border at the 49th parallel, and called for the joint-occupation of Oregon
On his way out of office, John Adams appointed 16 new judges. Jefferson refused to deliver some of these appointments. The Supreme Court established judicial review.