Market revolutionThe linking of northern industries with western and southern farms which was created by advances in agriculture, industry, communication, and transportation
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Black PanthersAdvocated violence when necessary in defense of black rights
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
Wanted to end indian culture by forcing them to assimilate to American values.
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
NAWSAWorked to secure voting rights for women
British beliefs after 7 years warThey viewed the colonies as subordinates. They had spent billions on defending them, and thought they'd want to help pay the debt.
ProgressivismThe idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
A dispute over a french fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
Virtual representationThe idea that each representative in parliament represented the empire as a whole, and therefore, the colonies were represented.
Election of 1797First contested election in American history, won by John Adams (Washington's vice president)
Bleeding KansasFighting broke out between the pro and anti-slavery factions
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
Free Soil PartyFormed by abolitionists who wanted to ban slavery everywhere
Direct election of senatorsGave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
15th amendmentProtected voting rights of former slaves (in theory)
Palmer raidsThe AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Election of 1824The divisions within the Democratic-Republican party led them to choose 4 candidates, while Jackson's populist campaign won the popular vote, no candidate won enough electoral votes. Adams and Clay made a deal and the house voted for Adams.
French revolutionAmbassador from France came to America to encourage Americans to side with the French. Washington declared neutrality, but the ambassador remained in America to not get beheaded back home.
Common senseAttacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.
Big stick diplomacyAn aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
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
White collar workersAll the industrialization created a new type of work for managers and administrators who ran the factories instead of working in them
Pullman strikeAfter a railroad car manufacturer cut wages, and the union tried to negotiate, the company failed them all. The railroad union decided to not work on any trains with Pullman cars in them. The railroad owners tied the Pullman cars to mail trains in order to get the government to keep them moving, and the union members were jailed
Niagra movement
Tenure of Office Act
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passengerHer refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger, and subsequent arrest sparked a massive bus boycott
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Positions on expansion of slaveryArgued that slavery was a constitutional right, wanted line established in the Missouri Compromise to extend all the way westward to the Pacific.
A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
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.
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Settlement housesProvided resources to the poor to enrich the neighborhood. Largely led by women
Boston massacreParliament 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
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
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Big stick diplomacyAn aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Lend-Lease Act
They didn’t want it. Initially the revolution was a petition to get the same rights as other British citizens
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Cesar Chavez
Sedition act of 1918Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Sioux warsSioux initally won a deceive victory against the U.S. army.
Tariff of 1828
Made monopolizing an entire market illegal
A movement, mostly among young people who cast off societal restraint with rebellious clothing and experimental drug use
The new southIdea that the future of the south would be based on economic diversity and industrial growth. Massive growth of population, industry, and railroads. Only in limited industrial centers though.
Market revolutionThe linking of northern industries with western and southern farms which was created by advances in agriculture, industry, communication, and transportation
Booker T. WashingtonHe argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Changes in farmingA new focus on cash-crops in the north and west, and a shift to more expensive mechanized farming methods put smaller farms out of business. Big trusts that farmers relied on (like railroads) also raised prices, making it even harder for farmers to make a living
Engel vs. Vitale
JamestownThe first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia by a joint stock company
Battle of Bunker hill
Whiskey rebellionviolent 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
Age of passion
Andrew Carnegie
Argued that the Supreme Court had engaged in a gross abuse of power
Lexington and Concorde
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Black PanthersAdvocated violence when necessary in defense of black rights
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Declaratory actParliament repealed the stamp act, but enacted the declaratory act, saying they could pass any law they wanted.
Congress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation.