Government support for railroads
Railroads supported by the government through money and land grants
Ghost dance movement
nationwide movement of resistance. They began to believe that if they took up the ritualistic ghost dance, that their ancestors would return and drive the Americans out.
Wilmot Proviso
Gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years.
American imperialism
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Established the southern border of the United States and granted a huge portion of land known as the Mexican cession which included California and new Mexico
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Removed native americans from their land and sent them to reservations west of the Mississippi river.
Interstate commerce act
Required railroad rates to be reasonable and just, and established a federal commission to oversee the railroads
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
Puritan culture
Mexican-American war
Disputes over the Texas border sparked the conflict. American troops made it all the way to Mexico city.
1920's economic boom
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
Germany solicited Mexico to become an ally of theirs, and in return they would help Mexico regain the land that they had lost in the Mexican-American war.
Sugar act
Phyllis Schlafly
Organized the conservative opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment
Expansion of democracy
Voting rights were expanded to all white males
British impressment
Big stick diplomacy
All paper products sold in the colonies had to be stamped and pay a small tax. It spurred on revolutionary ideals.
The contested election was decided by a Republican-leaning committee the obv chose the Republican candidate. Democrats threatened to filibuster
Split within the Democratic-Republican party
Expansive view of federal power & loose constructionists
Monroe doctrine
Established the western hemisphere as a U.S.-dominated sphere of influence without European involvement.
Virtual representation
Spanish colonization
Colonized to extract wealth through mining and cash crops
In opposing the stamp act, the colonists said trade should be regulated instead. Parliament passed the townshend acts and began taxing imports and exports.
applied 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
Lend-Lease Act
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
End of the federalists
The war had revived the struggling party thanks to the anti-war movement. Now that the war was over, federalist support collapsed for good.
Assimilationist movement
