N.O.W.Advocated for women's rights using many of the same tactics as the civil rights movement
Attitudes towards Germany
Pendleton Act
Expansion of democracyVoting rights were expanded to all white males
George Washington's Presidency
Texan independenceAmericans had been settling in Texas since the 1820s. The southerners outnumbered actual Mexicans and had brought their slaves. The Mexican government outlawed slavery and mandated catholicism.
Big stick diplomacyAn aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Spanish colonizationColonized to extract wealth through mining and cash crops
7 years warA dispute over a French fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
Compromise of 1850California 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
Georgia government
Louisiana purchaseNapoleon needed money to quell the Haitian revolution, so he sold the Louisiana territory, and Jefferson bought. This was controversial because the constitution didn't specify how to add territory to the union.
Marbury vs. Madison
Broke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves
Teddy Roosevelt progressivismBelieved the president should set the legislative agenda for Congress. He led congress to pass a series of laws on consumer protection and enviornmental conservation
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2nd Continental CongressHow would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army
How would they pay for it? New currency
Tariff of 1828Raised import duties up to 50%. Supported by industrial northerners and hated by southerners who relied on imports
Jefferson and Hamilton agreed to pass Hamilton's financial plan in exchange for making Washington D.C. the Capital of the country
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
End of the federalists
Lend-Lease ActAllowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
John D. Rockefeller
Lexington and ConcordeBritish troops marched to take a militia's weapons. They we're beaten back and chased back to boston by militia minutemen
NAWSAWorked to secure voting rights for women
Gospel of wealth
Flappers
First great awakening
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Nat turners rebellionA young slave organized a rebellion believing that god had told him to do so. He and his followers killed over 50 people
Red scare
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Andrew Carnegie
He favored removing them to reservations beyond the Mississippi if they refused to "civilize" themselves. Some unified and began violently resisting with help from the British
Argued that the Supreme Court had engaged in a gross abuse of power
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
Engel vs. VitaleProhibited prayers in school
Sioux warsSioux initally won a deceive victory against the U.S. army.
Jay treaty
Compromise of 1820Bring in Missouri and Maine at the same time to keep the balance of power. Also limited slavery above a certain latitude.
Georgia government
Truman took measures to contain the spread of communism. The U.S. would provide economic and military support to any country fighting communism
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
Colonial attitude towards independenceThey didn’t want it. Initially the revolution was a petition to get the same rights as other British citizens
Made discrimination on the basis of race, religion, or sex illegal
Square deal
Dred Scott caseA slave in Missouri was taken to live in free Wisconsin, for two years, and he sued for his freedom. The Supreme Court ruled that slaves aren't citizens, and they are property so nobody can be deprived of their property without due process.
Roe v. WadeNixon's appointments (who he'd assumed who be conservative) ruled in favor of abortion rights
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Cult of domesticity
Tammany Hall
Praying towns
War hawkes
Spanish colonizationColonized to extract wealth through mining and cash crops
Cold warA conflict between two belligerents where neither engages in conflict with the other
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Franklin D. Roosevelt electedBelieved in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
civic virtue
Battle of VicksburgGranted the Union control of the entire Mississippi River. Cut the confederacy in half
Common senseAttacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.
Progressive's concerns
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Monroe doctrineEstablished the western hemisphere as a U.S.-dominated sphere of influence without European involvement.