Views on immigration
Feared that factory owners would use immigrants to keep wages low and to replace striking workers
The Feminine Mystique
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.
7 years war
A dispute over a french fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
Cesar Chavez
Led the protests for fair labor for agricultural workers
Tammany Hall
The most famous political machine organized and met the needs of immigrants and the poor in exchange for votes
Fries rebellion
Farmers in southeast Pennsylvania stopped paying taxes for the larger military. John Fries led a peaceful protest, but John Adams ordered federal troops to stop the protest, and they made mass arrests, assaulted newspaper editors, and almost executed John Fries.
the character of a good participant in a system of gov
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
International migration society
Facilitated the migration of black people to africa
The Virginia plan
The plan for representation favored by large states. It called for 2 houses with population based representation and a strong national government.
Stamp act congress
White collar workers
Henry Clay's American system
Federally funded internal improvements, protective tariffs, and the re-establishment of the bank of the united states.
John D. Rockefeller
Pioneered horizontal integration, where one company controls every seller in the market.
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
McCulloch vs Maryland
Ruled that federal law trumps state law
Niagra movement
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
Black Panthers
Texan independence
Americans had been settling in Texas since the 1820s. The southerners outnumbered actual Mexicans and had brought their slaves. The Mexican government outlawed slavery and mandated catholicism.
Self-determination Act of 1975
Gave Native Americans much greater control over their lands, education, and law enforcement
Andrew Carnegie argued that those with wealth should invest it into society
Knights of labor
National union open to ALL laborers. Wanted to end child labor and end trusts
joint-stock company
Grew to over a million members by 1901 and had some modest successes
Secret ballot
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
Immigration Quotas
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Believed the president should set the legislative agenda for Congress. He led congress to pass a series of laws on consumer protection and enviornmental conservation
Ida Tarbell
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
