Argued that slavery was a constitutional right, wanted line established in the Missouri Compromise to extend all the way westward to the Pacific.
Booker T. WashingtonHe argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
7 years warA dispute over a French fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
Ghost dance movementnationwide 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.
First political partiesDivisions over neutrality in the French revolution, the Jay treaty, the financial plan, and existing sectionalism created the first political parties.
Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege
Hartford ConventionFederalists met in opposition to the war of 1812, and even argued that new england should suceed.
Henry Clay's American system
French colonizationExpanding the fur trade, later plantations in Louisiana
Immigration QuotasLimited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
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.
Red scareHouse Unamerican activities community searched for communist influence in American society (Government, military, film industry, Boy Scouts)
Declaratory actParliament repealed the stamp act, but enacted the declaratory act, saying they could pass any law they wanted.
Attitudes towards Germany
Philadelphia convention
Thomas GageThe new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws
Great railroad strikeRailroad companies cut salaries due to a recession. Railroad workers went on strike in 11 states. When the strike got violent, 11 people were killed before President Hayes sent in federal troops
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White supremacy
Praying townsTowns in new england where native Americans were forced to live. They we're supposed to be for their protection, but really, it was to steal their land and convert them to christianity
Republican party formedA coalition of free soilers and whigs and northern democrats who's goal was to stop the spread of slavery.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Tallmadge amendment
Hamilton's financial plan
First contested election in American history, won by John Adams (Washington's vice president)
British colonizationEconomic and religious liberty
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GI BillGave WW2 veterans the opportunity to go to college for free (paid by the Government)
republican motherhood
Jim Crow laws
W.E.B. DuboisArgued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
Pequot war
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Charles FinneyNew york preacher who spoke powerfully with images that common folks could understand.
Declaration of IndependenceWritten by Thomas Jefferson. Declared the colonies an independent country from Britain. Included a statement of intent, list of grievances, and a conclusion that dissolved ties with Britain
Market revolutionThe linking of northern industries with western and southern farms which was created by advances in agriculture, industry, communication, and transportation
Crisis in American valuesEmbraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
fourteen pointsWilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Andrew CarnegiePioneered vertical integration, where one company controls every stage of the manufacturing process
joint-stock companyA business, often backed by a government charter, that sold shares to individuals to raise money for its trading enterprises and to spread the risks (and profits) among many investors.
Hartford Convention
President Jefferson established an embargo on foreign trade in retaliation for Britain and France attacks on American ships.
Anaconda planPlan to completely cut off the south by blockading southern ports and eventually the Mississippi river
Increased nativism
Election of 1860Lincoln campaigned on halting the expansion of slavery. He won without a single Southern electoral vote, prompting the south to realize they no longer any voice in the future of slavery in america
Tallmadge amendmentWould prohibit slavery in Missouri if it was admitted into the union
The Virginia planThe plan for representation favored by large states. It called for 2 houses with population based representation and a strong national government.
Declaratory actParliament repealed the stamp act, but enacted the declaratory act, saying they could pass any law they wanted.
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Argued that the Supreme Court had engaged in a gross abuse of power
Camp meetings with huge sermons, christian revival. In contrast to first great awakening, which focused on personal moral reformation, second one emphasized moral reformation of society
Boston massacre
Cold warA conflict between two belligerents where neither engages in conflict with the other
First political partiesDivisions over neutrality in the French revolution, the Jay treaty, the financial plan, and existing sectionalism created the first political parties.
Compromise of 1820
Espionage Act of 1917
James OglethorpeGot 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.
Britain agreed to abandon outposts on the western frontier. In return the U.S. would favor trade with Britian. However, the treaty failed to address the british kidnapping, and American hatred of Britian caused riots.
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George Washington's Presidency
Pendleton ActPolitical 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