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
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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
the character of a good participant in a system of gov
18th amendment passedBanned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Asiento System
Jefferson policy on indigenous Americans
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
2nd Continental CongressHow would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army
How would they pay for it? New currency
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
A staunch Calvinist who began preaching outdoors in England. He moved to the colonies in 1740. In 2 years he was able to speak to over a quarter of the American population
Jefferson's presidencyHe 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
pinckney's treatybetween US and spain, defined border US and spanish florida, guranteed US navigation rights in mississippi river
FederalismThe division of powers between different levels of government.
New American identityNoah Webster's dictionary standardized the spelling and pronunciation of American language
MuckrakersInvestigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
The divisions within the Democratic-Republican party led them to choose 4 candidates, while Jackson's populist campaign won the popular vote, no candidate won enough electoral votes. Adams and Clay made a deal and the house voted for Adams.
sedition act
FlappersWomen who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
British colonization
Proclamation of 1763Britain didn't want to spend more money defending the colonies from the natives, so they banned settling beyond the Appalachian mountains
Navigation Acts
International migration society
nationwide movement of resistance. They began to believe that if they took up the ritualistic ghost dance, that their ancestors would return and drive the Americans out.
James OglethorpeGot the royal charter for Georgia because he wanted to establish a colony for the "worthy poor" (the people in debtors prisions). England also wanted protection from Spanish Florida.
Boston massacreParliament sent 1,000 troops to boston to enforce the townshend acts. Protesters began throwing snowballs, and eventually rocks at a group of soldiers. Someone fired a shot, and the soldiers killed 5 protesters
Compromise of 1877The contested election was decided by a Republican-leaning committee the obv chose the Republican candidate. Democrats threatened to filibuster
Dutch colonization
Marbury vs. Madison
Laissez-faire economicsThere was an extreme lack of government regulation of the economy at the time
In opposing the stamp act, the colonists said trade should be regulated instead. Parliament passed the townshend acts and began taxing imports and exports.
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virginia and kentucky resolutions
Meat inspection act
Marshall plan
Booker T. Washington
Tariff of 1828Raised import duties up to 50%. Supported by industrial northerners and hated by southerners who relied on imports
Treaty of Guadalupe-HidalgoEstablished 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
Jacob RiisA photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
By 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau declared that the frontier was officially settled
MuckrakersInvestigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Protected voting rights of former slaves (in theory)
Treaty of New Echota
A dissenter who clashed with the Massachusetts Puritans over separation of church and state and was banished in 1636, after which he founded the colony of Rhode Island to the south
Panic of 1819
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.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
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.
Americans believed they had a God-given right to have a nation from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
FlappersWomen who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Square dealWhen coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
Battle of VicksburgGranted the Union control of the entire Mississippi River. Cut the confederacy in half
The Albany conference
Cash and CarryRoosevelt persuaded Congress to pass a looser version of the neutrality act that allowed anyone to purchase arms from the U.S. as long as they paid in cash and used their own ships to transport it
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Bacons rebellionBritish 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.
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Editor of a newspaper editorialized against lynching and jim crow. She fled north due to threats against her
Dutch colonizationFur trade and other economic reasons
End of the federalistsThe war had revived the struggling party thanks to the anti-war movement. Now that the war was over, federalist support collapsed for good.
Southern baptists
Sinking of the LusitaniaA German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board