Henry Clay's American system
Federally funded internal improvements, protective tariffs, and the re-establishment of the bank of the united states.
Voting rights were expanded to all white males
Plan to completely cut off the south by blockading southern ports and eventually the Mississippi river
Sinking of the Lusitania
Federalism
The division of powers between different levels of government.
The war had revived the struggling party thanks to the anti-war movement. Now that the war was over, federalist support collapsed for good.
N.O.W.
Advocated for women's rights using many of the same tactics as the civil rights movement
2nd Continental Congress
How would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army
How would they pay for it? New currency
Age of passion
Politics was very negative with the rise of political parties, political violence, and deep political divisions
Second great awakening
Southern resistance to integration
Argued that the Supreme Court had engaged in a gross abuse of power
Fries rebellion
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.
Booker T. Washington
The great migration
Over 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination
British colonization
Railroads
New deal
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
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
International migration society
Facilitated the migration of black people to africa
After WWII there was a massive movement of decolonization throughout the world. Many of these new nations were unstable and needed aid, creating perfect conditions for proxy wars
Republican party formed
A coalition of free soilers and whigs and northern democrats who's goal was to stop the spread of slavery.
Haymarket square riot
Lexington and Concorde
British troops marched to take a militia's weapons. They we're beaten back and chased back to boston by militia minutemen
Nat turners rebellion
The Albany conference
Meeting between leaders of 7 colonies to create a plan for joint defense and administration of the colonies. "Join or die"
fourteen points
Jefferson's presidency
He himself owned hundreds of slaves. He banned the importation of slaves. Once the Atlantic trade dried up, domestic trade increased, creating the second middle passage
Virtual representation
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Established the southern border of the United States and granted a huge portion of land known as the Mexican cession which included California and new Mexico
Palmer raids
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
