Anne Hutchinson
A 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.
All the industrialization created a new type of work for managers and administrators who ran the factories instead of working in them
Secret ballot
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
Whigs
New party led by Henry Clay. Main difference was disagreement over federal power
Immigration Quotas
Tenure of Office Act
The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia by a joint stock company
International migration society
Second great awakening
Booker T. Washington
former slave who trained other black men to become economically self-sufficient, and argued this was a better way to gain power than to campaign for better voting rights
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.
Editor of a newspaper editorialized against lynching and jim crow. She fled north due to threats against her
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.
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.
Populist party
Wanted to correct the concentration of power held by banks and trusts. Proposed the Omaha platform: Direct election of senators, more referendums, graduated income tax, and an 8-hour workday
Democratic Republicans
Weak national government
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
Monroe doctrine
EPA
Created in response to growing backlash from environmental disasters. Sought to place limits on pollution in the air and water
Positions on expansion of slavery
Argued that slavery was a constitutional right, wanted line established in the Missouri Compromise to extend all the way westward to the Pacific.
Settlement houses
Provided resources to the poor to enrich the neighborhood. Largely led by women
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
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
Ethan Allen and the Green mountain boys surround fort Ticonderoga, steal it's cannons, and bring them back to Boston
Argued that the Supreme Court had engaged in a gross abuse of power
Charles Finney
New york preacher who spoke powerfully with images that common folks could understand.
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
Spanish-American War
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
