Philadelphia convention
Colony settled by the Pilgrims. It eventually merged with Massachusetts Bay colony.
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
Government support for railroads
Attacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.
Whigs
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
Pequot tribe vs connecticut settlers. Started witht eh murder of 2 english traders. It was part of a larger dispute over trade
Knights of labor
Anti-Saloon league
Worked to close down saloons
Federalists
Strong national government
The Albany conference
Democratic Republicans
Weak national government
Ghost dance movement
The great migration
Jackson Vetos Second Bank of the U.S.
Supported by Henry Clay and created under the American system
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
Hoovervilles
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Americans had been settling in Texas since the 1820s. The southerners outnumbered actual Mexicans and had brought their slaves. The Mexican government outlawed slavery and mandated catholicism.
Phyllis Schlafly
Organized the conservative opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment
Thomas Gage
The new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Led a small raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. His goal was to arm the southern slave population and incite a slave rebellion
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
Led the protests for fair labor for agricultural workers
N.O.W.
Advocated for women's rights using many of the same tactics as the civil rights movement
Roosevelt persuaded Congress to pass a looser version of the neutrality act that allowed anyone to purchase arms from the U.S. as long as they paid in cash and used their own ships to transport it
Zimmermann telegram
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.
Looked to balance national coordination and states rights to prevent tyranny. It featured a unicameral legislature, but the federal government had no money and no military
Direct election of senators
Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
