King Philip's war
King Metacomet (King Philip), forges a massive military alliance with other native tribes and attacked Massachusetts in retaliation for the praying towns
Big stick diplomacy
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Charles Finney
New york preacher who spoke powerfully with images that common folks could understand.
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Massive extension of the railroad system created a truly national market for goods
Secret ballot
Niagra movement
Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
Treaty of New Echota
Sneaky deal that exchanged Cherokee land in Georgia for a reservation territory west of the Mississippi River.
They viewed the colonies as subordinates. They had spent billions on defending them, and thought they'd want to help pay the debt.
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
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
Bessemer process
Enabled manufacturers to produce huge quantities of steel
Connecticut compromise
Congress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation.
Madison declared war. "Would Americans remain independent or become colonists again?"
Election of 1844
James k. Polk was a big believer in manifest destiny. He got the Oregon territory and started the Mexican-American River.
Sit-in movement
Thousands of black folks sat a segregated food counters and refused to move until they were taken out by force and jailed
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.
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
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.
Andrew Carnegie
Pioneered vertical integration, where one company controls every stage of the manufacturing process
McCulloch vs Maryland
Ruled that federal law trumps state law
American imperialism
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Upton Sinclair
Convention of 1818
Effects of the War of 1812
Confirmed ability of a Republican Government to defend itself. Americans completed conquest of everything east of the Mississippi. War broke remaining indigenous power, and white settlers poured in to former native lands.
Ida B. Wells
Editor of a newspaper editorialized against lynching and jim crow. She fled north due to threats against her
pinckney's treaty
between US and spain, defined border US and spanish florida, guranteed US navigation rights in mississippi river
Articles of confederation
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
Immigration Quotas
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
alien laws
authorized the president to deport "aliens" and permitted their arrest imprisonment and deportation during war time
