The middle ground
Chinese exclusion act
Nativists successfully pressured Congress to stop the flow of Chinese immigrants who were coming over during the gold rush.
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Colony founded by John Winthrop, part of the Great Puritan Migration, founded by puritans. Had a theocratic republic. "City upon a hill"
Mass culture
Dutch Wedge
New Netherlands separated England's northern and southern colonies, until they just took it with very little resistance
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French revolution
Proclamation of 1763
Britain didn't want to spend more money defending the colonies from the natives, so they banned settling beyond the Appalachian mountains
Split within the Democratic-Republican party
McCulloch vs Maryland
Ruled that federal law trumps state law
Political appointments were very corrupt after a guy shot the president because he didn't get a job, congress passed the Pendleton Act, which created an exam that was used for deciding who would get a job
joint-stock company
the character of a good participant in a system of gov
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
fourteen points
Red Scare
Populist party
Wanted 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
Stamp act congress
Delegates met in New York to send the "declaration of rights & grievances" to the king. They also organized a boycott of British goods.
sedition act
applied 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
2nd Continental Congress
How would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army
How would they pay for it? New currency
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Pushed hard for civil rights, wanted to punish the south. Shifted the process of reconstruction from president to congress
They didn’t want it. Initially the revolution was a petition to get the same rights as other British citizens
King Philip's war
Laissez-faire economics
There was an extreme lack of government regulation of the economy at the time
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Declaration of Independence
Written by Thomas Jefferson. Declared the colonies an independent country from Britain. Included a statement of intent, list of grievances, and a conclusion that dissolved ties with Britain
Battle of Bunker hill
British won, but had many casualties. They eventually abandoned Boston
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
