Philadelphia convention12/13 states met to amend the articles of confederation. They eventually decided to draft a new constitution
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Popham ColonyBritian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left
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Removed native americans from their land and sent them to reservations west of the Mississippi river.
King Philip's warKing Metacomet (King Philip), forges a massive military alliance with other native tribes and attacked Massachusetts in retaliation for the praying towns
Dutch colonizationFur trade and other economic reasons
Mexican-American war
Hamilton's financial plan
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
British colonization
Sherman antitrust actMade monopolizing an entire market illegal
Malcom X
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Haymarket square riotAnarchists 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
Whiskey rebellionviolent 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
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The New Jersey plan
Battle of Bunker hillBritish won, but had many casualties. They eventually abandoned Boston
joint-stock companyA business, often backed by a government charter, that sold shares to individuals to raise money for its trading enterprises and to spread the risks (and profits) among many investors.
Rush-Bagot pact
Election of 1824The 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.
Nixon's appointments (who he'd assumed who be conservative) ruled in favor of abortion rights
Articles of confederation
Thomas GageThe new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws
Rise 0f Chesapeake slaveryLaws helped codify racial differneces. They wanted to prevent the growth of the free black population by banning interracial marriage. Also slavery was becoming cheaper than indentured servitude
Franklin D. Roosevelt electedBelieved in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
civic virtuethe character of a good participant in a system of gov
Madison declared war on great BritainMadison declared war. "Would Americans remain independent or become colonists again?"
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
Reconstruction actsDivided the south into 5 zones under military occupation. Increased requirements for rejoining (also ratify 14th amendment and have universal suffrage)
Asiento SystemSystem that took slaves to the New World to work for the Spanish. Required that a tax be paid to the Spanish ruler for each slave brought over.
Sinking of the LusitaniaA German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
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Required railroad rates to be reasonable and just, and established a federal commission to oversee the railroads
Colonized to extract wealth through mining and cash crops
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Booker T. WashingtonHe argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Harlem RenaissanceBlack artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
The great migrationOver 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination
There was an extreme lack of government regulation of the economy at the time
N.O.W.Advocated for women's rights using many of the same tactics as the civil rights movement
New dealPublic works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Praying townsTowns in new england where native Americans were forced to live. They we're supposed to be for their protection, but really, it was to steal their land and convert them to christianity
Gospel of wealthAndrew Carnegie argued that those with wealth should invest it into society
HoovervillesPeople who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
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sedition actapplied 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
Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
Dawes actBroke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves
Farmers wanted to print more money so they could more easily pay back their debts, but the bankers and the wealthy wanted to keep the U.S. Dollar on the gold standard
British impressment
JamestownThe first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia by a joint stock company
French revolutionAmbassador 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.
Gold rushGold was discovered in California, population skyrocketed
Checks and balancesDifferent branches of government could check each other to prevent abuse of power.
Failures of the articles of confederation
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Jay treaty
18th amendment passedBanned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Prohibited prayers in school
the Compromise of 1790Jefferson and Hamilton agreed to pass Hamilton's financial plan in exchange for making Washington D.C. the Capital of the country