President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Southern resistance to integration
Argued that the Supreme Court had engaged in a gross abuse of power
Containment
Truman took measures to contain the spread of communism. The U.S. would provide economic and military support to any country fighting communism
Direct election of senators
Jefferson's presidency
12/13 states met to amend the articles of confederation. They eventually decided to draft a new constitution
Gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years.
Starting in 1865 many Americans started pushing westward again after the interruption of the civil war
republican motherhood
the idea that women needed to become educated so that they could educate the new generation
Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
James k. Polk was a big believer in manifest destiny. He got the Oregon territory and started the Mexican-American River.
Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Social and educational collective aimed at brining farmers together. Soon became political to lobby for farmers
British colonization
Economic and religious liberty
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
Lincoln campaigned on halting the expansion of slavery. He won without a single Southern electoral vote, prompting the south to realize they no longer any voice in the future of slavery in america
Dutch Wedge
New Netherlands separated England's northern and southern colonies, until they just took it with very little resistance
Formed by abolitionists who wanted to ban slavery everywhere
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger
Her refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger, and subsequent arrest sparked a massive bus boycott
Family seen as foundation of social fabric
A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
Andrew Carnegie argued that those with wealth should invest it into society
Established the western hemisphere as a U.S.-dominated sphere of influence without European involvement.
Bleeding Kansas
Fighting broke out between the pro and anti-slavery factions
15th amendment
Protected voting rights of former slaves (in theory)
Bacons rebellion
British settlers wanted more land for growing tobacco and they stole it from the natives. The natives retaliated, which infuriated the colonists. When Governor William Berkeley refused to send troops, Nathanial Bacon led angry poor farmers on an attack against the natives, and then on farms owned by Governor Berkeley.
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.
Workers formed labor unions to have more negotiating power and fight for better pay and working conditions
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.
