Jamestown The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia by a joint stock company
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Roger Williams
Spanish colonization Colo
Congress wanted king George to intervene on their behalf and end the violence. He didn’t read it.
Jackson Vetos Second Bank of the U.S. Supported by Henry Clay and created under the American system
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Upton Sinclair Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger
Self-determination Act of 1975 Gave Native Americans much greater control over their lands, education, and law enforcement
Pushed hard for civil rights, wanted to punish the south. Shifted the process of reconstruction from president to congress
King Philip's war King Metacomet (King Philip), forges a massive military alliance with other native tribes and attacked Massachusetts in retaliation for the praying towns
virginia and kentucky resolutions
Mass culture The growing popularity of technologies like movies and the radio meant that everyone was listening to the same things, which helped create a more unified culture and distinct identity
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
Changes in farming
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Battle of Vicksburg Granted the Union control of the entire Mississippi River. Cut the confederacy in half
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.
Knights of labor
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.
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.
Rush-Bagot pact Agreement with Britain that removed military ships from the great lakes.
Panic of 1893
Jacob Riis
Advocated violence when necessary in defense of black rights
Watts Riots of 1965
Railroads
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Cesar Chavez Led the protests for fair labor for agricultural workers
French revolution
Southern baptists Split from the rest of the baptist church because the northern baptists were abolitionists
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
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First political parties Divisions over neutrality in the French revolution, the Jay treaty, the financial plan, and existing sectionalism created the first political parties.
XYZ affair
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.
Sugar act
Pendleton Act
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.
James Oglethorpe Got 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.
Raised import duties up to 50%. Supported by industrial northerners and hated by southerners who relied on imports
2nd Continental Congress How would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army How would they pay for it? New currency
Charles Finney New york preacher who spoke powerfully with images that common folks could understand.
Pequot war Pequot tribe vs connecticut settlers. Started witht eh murder of 2 english traders. It was part of a larger dispute over trade
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Tammany Hall
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
Anti-Saloon league Worked to close down saloons
International migration society Facilitated the migration of black people to africa
Thomas Gage
Rush-Bagot pact Agreement with Britain that removed military ships from the great lakes.
Flappers Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
New Netherlands separated England's northern and southern colonies, until they just took it with very little resistance
Positions on expansion of slavery Argued that slavery was a constitutional right, wanted line established in the Missouri Compromise to extend all the way westward to the Pacific.
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Election of 1844 James k. Polk was a big believer in manifest destiny. He got the Oregon territory and started the Mexican-American River.
Assembly line A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Plymouth
First great awakening A revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s.
Political machines
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