Heimler's History APUSH Review duel

Popham Colony Britian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left

Bleeding Kansas

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.

Election of 1860

How would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army How would they pay for it? New currency

The division of powers between different levels of government.

Meeting between leaders of 7 colonies to create a plan for joint defense and administration of the colonies. "Join or die"

Bessemer process Enabled manufacturers to produce huge quantities of steel

Jamestown The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia by a joint stock company

The new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws

Tammany Hall

Jim Crow laws

Manifest destiny Americans believed they had a God-given right to have a nation from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

Laissez-faire economics There was an extreme lack of government regulation of the economy at the time

Radical Republicans

Hartford Convention

alien laws authorized the president to deport "aliens" and permitted their arrest imprisonment and deportation during war time

Battle of Vicksburg

Civil rights act of 1866 All African Americans were citizens of the United States

violent tax protest from 1791-1794. the whiskey was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by president Washington to pay for the war. It unfairly burdened poor farmers west of the Appalachian mountains because they couldn't do business anymore

Southern baptists Split from the rest of the baptist church because the northern baptists were abolitionists

Big stick diplomacy

Compromise of 1850 California and New Mexico wanted to enter the union as free states. Henry Clay created compromise: New Mexico and Utah would vote on slavery, California would be admitted as a free state, Slavery would be banned in Washington D.C., and there would be a new fugitive slave act

Anti-Saloon league Worked to close down saloons

Gospel of wealth Andrew Carnegie argued that those with wealth should invest it into society

Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them

Asiento System

Pure food and drug act Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food

French colonization Expanding the fur trade, later plantations in Louisiana

Espionage Act of 1917 Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison

Colonized to extract wealth through mining and cash crops

Marshall plan The extensive economic aid plan to rebuild the European economy and encourage democracy

Tammany Hall The most famous political machine organized and met the needs of immigrants and the poor in exchange for votes

joint-stock company A 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.

A revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s.

Sinking of the Lusitania

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

Tenure of Office Act Stopped the president from removing a member of their cabinet without congressional approval (Johnson had tried to remove his secretary of war, who was a radical Republican)

In opposing the stamp act, the colonists said trade should be regulated instead. Parliament passed the townshend acts and began taxing imports and exports.

Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia

N.O.W. Advocated for women's rights using many of the same tactics as the civil rights movement

From 1820 to 1840 nearly 2 million immigrants (mainly from Germany and Ireland) showed up

Parliament repealed the stamp act, but enacted the declaratory act, saying they could pass any law they wanted.

Attacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.

Thomas Gage The new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws

Debates over money Farmers wanted to print more money so they could more easily pay back their debts, but the bankers and the wealthy wanted to keep the U.S. Dollar on the gold standard

Panic of 1819 First major recession in the United States

Britain didn't want to spend more money defending the colonies from the natives, so they banned settling beyond the Appalachian mountains

They viewed the colonies as subordinates. They had spent billions on defending them, and thought they'd want to help pay the debt.

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

Removed native americans from their land and sent them to reservations west of the Mississippi river.

Stamp act congress Delegates met in New York to send the "declaration of rights & grievances" to the king. They also organized a boycott of British goods.

Booker T. Washington He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors

Charles Finney New york preacher who spoke powerfully with images that common folks could understand.

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Hartford Convention Federalists met in opposition to the war of 1812, and even argued that new england should suceed.

Treaty of New Echota Sneaky deal that exchanged Cherokee land in Georgia for a reservation territory west of the Mississippi River.

Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair

Economic and religious liberty

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