Rush-Bagot pact
New deal
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
Marshall plan
The extensive economic aid plan to rebuild the European economy and encourage democracy
Red scare
House Unamerican activities community searched for communist influence in American society (Government, military, film industry, Boy Scouts)
Pullman strike
After a railroad car manufacturer cut wages, and the union tried to negotiate, the company failed them all. The railroad union decided to not work on any trains with Pullman cars in them. The railroad owners tied the Pullman cars to mail trains in order to get the government to keep them moving, and the union members were jailed
Hamilton's financial plan
1) Establish the U.S. credit worthiness 2) Unify the states' debt 3) Create a national bank 4) Whiskey tax to pay for the revolution 5) Establish tariffs to protect american businesses
Tammany Hall
The most famous political machine organized and met the needs of immigrants and the poor in exchange for votes
Virtual representation
GI Bill
Gave WW2 veterans the opportunity to go to college for free (paid by the Government)
California and New Mexico wanted to enter the union as free states.
Henry Clay created compromise: New Mexico and Utah would vote on slavery, California would be admitted as a free state, Slavery would be banned in Washington D.C., and there would be a new fugitive slave act
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
Knights of labor
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Puritan culture
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
The Albany conference
Meeting between leaders of 7 colonies to create a plan for joint defense and administration of the colonies. "Join or die"
Counter culture
A movement, mostly among young people who cast off societal restraint with rebellious clothing and experimental drug use
Second great awakening
Democratic Republicans
Weak national government
The middle ground
The areas where both colonists and native people would trade and coexist
Ida B. Wells
Editor of a newspaper editorialized against lynching and jim crow. She fled north due to threats against her
Election of 1800
Rematch between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. The Democratic republicans had finally figured out how to campaign in the media, and the Federalists were seen as elitist
Brown v. Board of education
Madison declared war on great Britain
Madison declared war. "Would Americans remain independent or become colonists again?"
Election of 1844
James k. Polk was a big believer in manifest destiny. He got the Oregon territory and started the Mexican-American River.
Pure food and drug act
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Removed native americans from their land and sent them to reservations west of the Mississippi river.
Haymarket square riot
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
Olive branch petition
Reconstruction acts
Divided the south into 5 zones under military occupation. Increased requirements for rejoining (also ratify 14th amendment and have universal suffrage)
