Ida B. WellsEditor of a newspaper editorialized against lynching and jim crow. She fled north due to threats against her
From 1820 to 1840 nearly 2 million immigrants (mainly from Germany and Ireland) showed up
Direct election of senatorsGave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
Southern resistance to integration
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Bacons rebellionBritish 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.
Wilson created many wartime agencies to coordinate the war. They encouraged Americans to ration resources and food, took control of railroads, and revitalized industries, causing more urban migration.
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
Pequot warPequot tribe vs connecticut settlers. Started witht eh murder of 2 english traders. It was part of a larger dispute over trade
Pullman strike
The 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.
EPA
Railroads
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.
A staunch Calvinist who began preaching outdoors in England. He moved to the colonies in 1740. In 2 years he was able to speak to over a quarter of the American population
Made monopolizing an entire market illegal
The Virginia plan
Kansas-Nebraska actdivided Nebraska territory into 2 sections, Kansas and Nebraska. Put slavery to a vote in each new state. Effectively overturned the Missouri compromise!
Established the western hemisphere as a U.S.-dominated sphere of influence without European involvement.
Common senseAttacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.
Pendleton Act
Marshall planThe extensive economic aid plan to rebuild the European economy and encourage democracy
John D. RockefellerPioneered horizontal integration, where one company controls every seller in the market.
American protective associationHeavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists
Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilegeOn his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs
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.
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
Homestead actGave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years.
Virtual representationThe idea that each representative in parliament represented the empire as a whole, and therefore, the colonies were represented.
Rush-Bagot pactAgreement with Britain that removed military ships from the great lakes.
Boost!
Boost!
Unrestricted submarine warfareGermany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
N.O.W.
Compromise of 1850
Fur trade and other economic reasons
Frozen!
Frozen!
Direct election of senatorsGave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
EPACreated in response to growing backlash from environmental disasters. Sought to place limits on pollution in the air and water
Laws 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
1920's politicsA Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
Great depression
End of the federalists
International migration societyFacilitated the migration of black people to africa
Townshend Acts
Shay’s rebellionFarmers 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.
Confirmed 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.
French and british continued to kidnap american sailors, so Adams sent ministers to negotiate. When they arrived, 3 agents demanded a bribe just to speak to the foreign minister. John Adams almost declared war.
Indian Removal Act of 1830Removed native americans from their land and sent them to reservations west of the Mississippi river.
MuckrakersInvestigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
PhilippinesTeddy Roosevelt sent an American fleet to attack the Spanish colony. They staged a ground invasion in collaboration with Filipino nationalists and overthrew the Spanish, before buying it from them
Pure food and drug actEnsured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Puritan cultureFamily seen as foundation of social fabric
the idea that women needed to become educated so that they could educate the new generation
Boost!
Boost!
Pullman strikeAfter 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
drafted by thomas jefferson and james madison, claimed that alien and sedition acts were unconstitutional and overstepped federal authority under the constitition, and could therefore be nullified by the states
Cult of domesticityA woman's identity and sense of purpose revolved around child-bearing and making her home comfortable for her husband.
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
Laissez-faire economicsThere was an extreme lack of government regulation of the economy at the time
Johnathan EdwardsTheologian and philosopher who objected to predestination and helped cause the first great awakening by preaching to large crowds