Sit-in movement
Thousands of black folks sat a segregated food counters and refused to move until they were taken out by force and jailed
Louisiana purchase
Napoleon 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.
Federalism
Great depression
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Anne Hutchinson
A Puritan woman who was well learned that disagreed with the Puritan Church in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her actions resulted in her banishment from the colony, and later took part in the formation of Rhode Island. She displayed the importance of questioning authority.
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Agreement with Britain that removed military ships from the great lakes.
7 years war
A dispute over a french fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
The middle ground
Pendleton Act
Tenure of Office Act
GI Bill
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
Knights of labor
National union open to ALL laborers. Wanted to end child labor and end trusts
EPA
Labor unions
Red Scare
The Albany conference
Meeting between leaders of 7 colonies to create a plan for joint defense and administration of the colonies. "Join or die"
From 1820 to 1840 nearly 2 million immigrants (mainly from Germany and Ireland) showed up
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
Lend-Lease Act
Indentured Servants
Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
Railroad companies cut salaries due to a recession. Railroad workers went on strike in 11 states. When the strike got violent, 11 people were killed before President Hayes sent in federal troops
Niagra movement
Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Congress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation.
Congress wanted king George to intervene on their behalf and end the violence. He didn’t read it.
Gold rush
Gold was discovered in California, population skyrocketed
Bacons rebellion
The British continued to kidnap american sailors. Washington sent John Jay to london to negotiate
