March on WashingtonHundreds of thousands gathered for a peaceful protest in front of the lincoln memorial. MLK gave his 'I have a dream' speech
Pioneered horizontal integration, where one company controls every seller in the market.
Explained the boredom and imprisonment of the typical housewife who was beholden to the needs of her family at the expense of her own needs. Argued that women should seek fulfilment and careers as well.
Marbury vs. Madison
Chinese exclusion act
Facilitated the migration of black people to africa
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Rush-Bagot pactAgreement with Britain that removed military ships from the great lakes.
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Connecticut compromiseCongress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation.
Johnson impeached
Free Soil PartyFormed by abolitionists who wanted to ban slavery everywhere
Georgia government
Declaratory act
Ida TarbellPublished a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
New dealPublic works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
Compromise of 1850California 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
British colonization
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Southern resistance to integrationArgued that the Supreme Court had engaged in a gross abuse of power
Interstate commerce act
Jay treatyBritain agreed to abandon outposts on the western frontier. In return the U.S. would favor trade with Britian. However, the treaty failed to address the british kidnapping, and American hatred of Britian caused riots.
Workers formed labor unions to have more negotiating power and fight for better pay and working conditions
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Jim Crow lawsForced segregation and prevented african americans from exercising their civil liberties
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Sit-in movementThousands of black folks sat a segregated food counters and refused to move until they were taken out by force and jailed
Assimilationist movementWanted to end indian culture by forcing them to assimilate to American values.
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Engel vs. VitaleProhibited prayers in school
First major recession in the United States
Anne HutchinsonA Puritan woman who was well learned that disagreed with the Puritan Church in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her actions resulted in her banishment from the colony, and later took part in the formation of Rhode Island. She displayed the importance of questioning authority.
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The Albany conferenceMeeting between leaders of 7 colonies to create a plan for joint defense and administration of the colonies. "Join or die"
Election of 1800Rematch 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
A coalition of free soilers and whigs and northern democrats who's goal was to stop the spread of slavery.
Farmers had to take debt because they weren’t getting paid. Their land was being repossessed so they rebelled and closed the courts. They used Republican ideals to justify it.
Attitudes towards GermanyWanted to keep Germany weak so they wouldn't pose a threat.
Wanted to extract reparations for all the damage Germany had caused
Compromise of 1820Bring in Missouri and Maine at the same time to keep the balance of power. Also limited slavery above a certain latitude.
N.A.A.C.PSought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
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
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
Treaty of Guadalupe-HidalgoEstablished the southern border of the United States and granted a huge portion of land known as the Mexican cession which included California and new Mexico
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
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Sinking of the Lusitania
France and others wanted their debt paid back, yet the national government didn’t have money. States had individual economies that didn’t collaborate.
Expansive view of federal power & loose constructionists
Sedition act of 1918
The Feminine MystiqueExplained the boredom and imprisonment of the typical housewife who was beholden to the needs of her family at the expense of her own needs. Argued that women should seek fulfilment and careers as well.
Ethan Allen and the Green mountain boys surround fort Ticonderoga, steal it's cannons, and bring them back to Boston
Korematsu vs. U.S.
Mass culture
EPACreated in response to growing backlash from environmental disasters. Sought to place limits on pollution in the air and water
Looked to balance national coordination and states rights to prevent tyranny. It featured a unicameral legislature, but the federal government had no money and no military
Muckrakers
Age of passion
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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.
Great depressionThe stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
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Gave WW2 veterans the opportunity to go to college for free (paid by the Government)
Effects of the War of 1812Confirmed ability of a Republican Government to defend itself. Americans completed conquest of everything east of the Mississippi. War broke remaining indigenous power, and white settlers poured in to former native lands.
Colonial attitude towards independenceThey didn’t want it. Initially the revolution was a petition to get the same rights as other British citizens