Increased nativism
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Containment Truman took measures to contain the spread of communism. The U.S. would provide economic and military support to any country fighting communism
Government support for railroads
Cash and Carry 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
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Battle of Bunker hill British won, but had many casualties. They eventually abandoned Boston
Muckrakers Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Texan independence
NAWSA Worked to secure voting rights for women
John D. Rockefeller Pioneered horizontal integration, where one company controls every seller in the market.
End of the federalists The war had revived the struggling party thanks to the anti-war movement. Now that the war was over, federalist support collapsed for good.
First great awakening A revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s.
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.
After WWII there was a massive movement of decolonization throughout the world. Many of these new nations were unstable and needed aid, creating perfect conditions for proxy wars
Black Panthers Advocated violence when necessary in defense of black rights
Family seen as foundation of social fabric
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
Federalists
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Common sense Attacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.
fourteen points Wilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
Granted the Union control of the entire Mississippi River. Cut the confederacy in half
Whigs New party led by Henry Clay. Main difference was disagreement over federal power
Roe v. Wade Nixon's appointments (who he'd assumed who be conservative) ruled in favor of abortion rights
Direct election of senators
Meat inspection act Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
N.O.W. Advocated for women's rights using many of the same tactics as the civil rights movement
Indentured Servants Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
Interstate commerce act Required railroad rates to be reasonable and just, and established a federal commission to oversee the railroads
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Dawes act Broke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Sherman antitrust act
Watts Riots of 1965
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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.
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Editor of a newspaper editorialized against lynching and jim crow. She fled north due to threats against her
Progressive's concerns Rising power of big businesses Uncertainties in the economy Violence between labor groups and employers Influence of political machines Jim Crow segregation Rights of women
Made discrimination on the basis of race, religion, or sex illegal
Split from the rest of the baptist church because the northern baptists were abolitionists
Jacob Riis
Secret ballot Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
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
Madison declared war on great Britain Madison declared war. "Would Americans remain independent or become colonists again?"
Stamp act congress
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Whigs
Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
The New Jersey plan The plan for representation favored by small states. It called for 1 house of Congress with each state getting equal representation.
Compromise of 1820
Britian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left
British beliefs after 7 years war
The linking of northern industries with western and southern farms which was created by advances in agriculture, industry, communication, and transportation
XYZ affair
Cold war
Reservation system Indian nations were assigned land called reservations. However this land was much less than before, and many decided to just keep following buffalo
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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
Great railroad strike
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A dispute over a french fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
N.O.W. Advocated for women's rights using many of the same tactics as the civil rights movement
Gave WW2 veterans the opportunity to go to college for free (paid by the Government)
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