republican motherhood
the idea that women needed to become educated so that they could educate the new generation
War hawkes
Younger Americans who had been born after the revolution, were ardent nationalists, and wanted war with Britain to invade Florida and Canada.
From 1820 to 1840 nearly 2 million immigrants (mainly from Germany and Ireland) showed up
Red scare
Jackson Vetos Second Bank of the U.S.
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
Roanoke Colony
Britians first colony, established in outer banks, NC. When they came back, it was abandonded
Free Soil Party
Formed by abolitionists who wanted to ban slavery everywhere
Government support for railroads
Railroads supported by the government through money and land grants
Attitudes towards Germany
Wanted to keep Germany weak so they wouldn't pose a threat.
Wanted to extract reparations for all the damage Germany had caused
Ida Tarbell
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
16 million immigrants (mostly from Europe) came looking for better economic opportunities
Age of passion
Politics was very negative with the rise of political parties, political violence, and deep political divisions
Dutch colonization
Fur trade and other economic reasons
Proclamation of 1763
Failures of the articles of confederation
France and others wanted their debt paid back, yet the national government didn’t have money. States had individual economies that didn’t collaborate.
Whiskey rebellion
violent tax protest from 1791-1794.
the whiskey was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by president Washington to pay for the war. It unfairly burdened poor farmers west of the Appalachian mountains because they couldn't do business anymore
Mexican-American war
Disputes over the Texas border sparked the conflict. American troops made it all the way to Mexico city.
Congress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation.
New American identity
Noah Webster's dictionary standardized the spelling and pronunciation of American language
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
Roosevelt 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
Cold war
A conflict between two belligerents where neither engages in conflict with the other
Marbury vs. Madison
On his way out of office, John Adams appointed 16 new judges. Jefferson refused to deliver some of these appointments. The Supreme Court established judicial review.
The war had revived the struggling party thanks to the anti-war movement. Now that the war was over, federalist support collapsed for good.
Assembly line
Dutch Wedge
New Netherlands separated England's northern and southern colonies, until they just took it with very little resistance
Thomas Gage
Panic of 1893
Civil rights act of 1866
All African Americans were citizens of the United States
