Immigration Quotas
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Americans believed they had a God-given right to have a nation from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Removed native americans from their land and sent them to reservations west of the Mississippi river.
Jim Crow laws
Colonized to extract wealth through mining and cash crops
Bacons rebellion
British settlers wanted more land for growing tobacco and they stole it from the natives. The natives retaliated, which infuriated the colonists. When Governor William Berkeley refused to send troops, Nathanial Bacon led angry poor farmers on an attack against the natives, and then on farms owned by Governor Berkeley.
The linking of northern industries with western and southern farms which was created by advances in agriculture, industry, communication, and transportation
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Zimmermann telegram
Germany solicited Mexico to become an ally of theirs, and in return they would help Mexico regain the land that they had lost in the Mexican-American war.
Views on immigration
Feared that factory owners would use immigrants to keep wages low and to replace striking workers
International migration society
Laissez-faire economics
Popham Colony
Britian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left
Congress wanted king George to intervene on their behalf and end the violence. He didn’t read it.
French revolution
Ambassador from France came to America to encourage Americans to side with the French. Washington declared neutrality, but the ambassador remained in America to not get beheaded back home.
War hawkes
Younger Americans who had been born after the revolution, were ardent nationalists, and wanted war with Britain to invade Florida and Canada.
End of the federalists
Raised import duties up to 50%. Supported by industrial northerners and hated by southerners who relied on imports
Established the western hemisphere as a U.S.-dominated sphere of influence without European involvement.
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
France and others wanted their debt paid back, yet the national government didn’t have money. States had individual economies that didn’t collaborate.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Made discrimination on the basis of race, religion, or sex illegal
Labor unions
Voting rights were expanded to all white males
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
Madison declared war on great Britain
Madison declared war. "Would Americans remain independent or become colonists again?"
18th amendment passed
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Compromise of 1820
Bring in Missouri and Maine at the same time to keep the balance of power. Also limited slavery above a certain latitude.
McCulloch vs Maryland
Brown v. Board of education
The Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were inherently unequal and schools had to be integrated. Overturned plessy v. Ferguson from 1896
