An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
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Pullman strike
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Andrew Carnegie
Sedition act of 1918 Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
XYZ affair 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.
Economic and religious liberty
Election of 1800 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
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Noah Webster's dictionary standardized the spelling and pronunciation of American language
Compromise of 1820
Jacob Riis A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
Pequot war Pequot tribe vs connecticut settlers. Started witht eh murder of 2 english traders. It was part of a larger dispute over trade
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.
First major recession in the United States
Protected voting rights of former slaves (in theory)
Southern resistance to integration
Hola
Reservation system
Marshall plan The extensive economic aid plan to rebuild the European economy and encourage democracy
Philippines Teddy 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
Tariff of 1828
Charles Finney
Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
Teddy Roosevelt progressivism 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
Flappers Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Great depression The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Spain sells Florida
Political machines
Popham Colony Britian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left
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Jefferson policy on indigenous Americans He favored removing them to reservations beyond the Mississippi if they refused to "civilize" themselves. Some unified and began violently resisting with help from the British
Red Scare Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
Settlement houses Provided resources to the poor to enrich the neighborhood. Largely led by women
Rise 0f Chesapeake slavery
James Oglethorpe 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.
Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists
15th amendment Protected voting rights of former slaves (in theory)
Malcom X Advocated countering white violence with black violence
republican motherhood the idea that women needed to become educated so that they could educate the new generation
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.
Assimilationist movement Wanted to end indian culture by forcing them to assimilate to American values.
Tallmadge amendment Would prohibit slavery in Missouri if it was admitted into the union
NAWSA Worked to secure voting rights for women
Red scare House Unamerican activities community searched for communist influence in American society (Government, military, film industry, Boy Scouts)
Pullman strike After 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
Pendleton Act Political appointments were very corrupt after a guy shot the president because he didn't get a job, congress passed the Pendleton Act, which created an exam that was used for deciding who would get a job
Many northerners opposed the expansion of slavery, and abolitionists despised the law. There were often riots when Southerners would try to bring back a runaway slave.
Flappers
Gospel of wealth
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
The plan for representation favored by large states. It called for 2 houses with population based representation and a strong national government.
Baker vs. Carr Mandated fair congressional districts
Mexican-American war Disputes over the Texas border sparked the conflict. American troops made it all the way to Mexico city.
GI Bill Gave WW2 veterans the opportunity to go to college for free (paid by the Government)
Changes in farming
John D. Rockefeller Pioneered horizontal integration, where one company controls every seller in the market.
Common sense
American imperialism Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Engel vs. Vitale
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