Asiento System
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Enabled manufacturers to produce huge quantities of steel
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Expanding the fur trade, later plantations in Louisiana
Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
King Metacomet (King Philip), forges a massive military alliance with other native tribes and attacked Massachusetts in retaliation for the praying towns
White supremacy continued to dominate. Secret societies continued to terrorize African Americans (and Catholics, jews, and immigrants)
Election of 1828
Red scare House Unamerican activities community searched for communist influence in American society (Government, military, film industry, Boy Scouts)
the idea that women needed to become educated so that they could educate the new generation
Civil rights act of 1866
Madison declared war on great Britain Madison declared war. "Would Americans remain independent or become colonists again?"
Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists
Jefferson policy on indigenous Americans
Massachusetts Bay Colony
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.
Spain sells Florida U.S. wanted Florida for nationalist reasons and because slaves and outlaws kept hiding out there. After retaliating for a raid, Spain gives up and sells Florida for $5 million
Great depression The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
British won, but had many casualties. They eventually abandoned Boston
Increased nativism Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Ida B. Wells
George Whitefield 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
Effects of the War of 1812
Voting Rights Act of 1965 Prohibited racial discrimination in the voting booth
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
Whiskey rebellion violent 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
Tenure of Office Act
W.E.B. Dubois
Boston massacre Parliament sent 1,000 troops to boston to enforce the townshend acts. Protesters began throwing snowballs, and eventually rocks at a group of soldiers. Someone fired a shot, and the soldiers killed 5 protesters
The idea that each representative in parliament represented the empire as a whole, and therefore, the colonies were represented.
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Manifest destiny Americans believed they had a God-given right to have a nation from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
Family seen as foundation of social fabric
Voting Rights Act of 1965 Prohibited racial discrimination in the voting booth
Supported by Henry Clay and created under the American system
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
civic virtue the character of a good participant in a system of gov
Rematch 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
White collar workers All the industrialization created a new type of work for managers and administrators who ran the factories instead of working in them
Massachusetts Bay Colony Colony founded by John Winthrop, part of the Great Puritan Migration, founded by puritans. Had a theocratic republic. "City upon a hill"
Hoovervilles People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Spanish colonization Colo
Starting in 1865 many Americans started pushing westward again after the interruption of the civil war
Counter culture
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Big stick diplomacy An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
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.
fourteen points Wilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
Decolonization After WWII there was a massive movement of decolonization throughout the world. Many of these new nations were unstable and needed aid, creating perfect conditions for proxy wars
Dred Scott case A slave in Missouri was taken to live in free Wisconsin, for two years, and he sued for his freedom. The Supreme Court ruled that slaves aren't citizens, and they are property so nobody can be deprived of their property without due process.
Spanish-American War
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
Wanted to end indian culture by forcing them to assimilate to American values.
Reconstruction acts Divided the south into 5 zones under military occupation. Increased requirements for rejoining (also ratify 14th amendment and have universal suffrage)
Boston massacre Parliament sent 1,000 troops to boston to enforce the townshend acts. Protesters began throwing snowballs, and eventually rocks at a group of soldiers. Someone fired a shot, and the soldiers killed 5 protesters
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Panic of 1819 First major recession in the United States
Increased nativism Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
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.
2nd Continental Congress How would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army How would they pay for it? New currency
Tammany Hall
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