Heimler's History APUSH Review duel

The Virginia plan The plan for representation favored by large states. It called for 2 houses with population based representation and a strong national government.

Women's Christian Temperance Union Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members

American protective association

Colonial attitude towards independence

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Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison

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

Assembly line

Charles Finney

Phyllis Schlafly Organized the conservative opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment

Philadelphia convention 12/13 states met to amend the articles of confederation. They eventually decided to draft a new constitution

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

Ida B. Wells

Nixon's appointments (who he'd assumed who be conservative) ruled in favor of abortion rights

Jacob Riis A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements

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.

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

British impressment

Whigs New party led by Henry Clay. Main difference was disagreement over federal power

Reconstruction acts

John Brown

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

Railroads supported by the government through money and land grants

Spanish colonization

Congress wanted king George to intervene on their behalf and end the violence. He didn’t read it.

Anti-Saloon league Worked to close down saloons

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

Madison re-imposed the embargo on Britain because they continued to attack American ships

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

7 years war

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

Led the protests for fair labor for agricultural workers

Great society An extension of the New Deal: War on Poverty Office of Economic Opportunity, Medicare, Medicaid, immigration act

fourteen points Wilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)

Meat inspection act Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants

British impressment The British continued to kidnap american sailors. Washington sent John Jay to london to negotiate

Spanish-American War

Panic of 1819 First major recession in the United States

Interstate commerce act

Family seen as foundation of social fabric

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

Market revolution The linking of northern industries with western and southern farms which was created by advances in agriculture, industry, communication, and transportation

Bacons rebellion British settlers wanted more land for growing tobacco and they stole it from the natives. The natives retaliated, which infuriated the colonists. When Governor William Berkeley refused to send troops, Nathanial Bacon led angry poor farmers on an attack against the natives, and then on farms owned by Governor Berkeley.

Election of 1844

President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president

2nd Continental Congress How would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army How would they pay for it? New currency

sedition act

the Compromise of 1790 Jefferson and Hamilton agreed to pass Hamilton's financial plan in exchange for making Washington D.C. the Capital of the country

Harlem Renaissance Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience

American federation of labor Grew to over a million members by 1901 and had some modest successes

Roger Williams A dissenter who clashed with the Massachusetts Puritans over separation of church and state and was banished in 1636, after which he founded the colony of Rhode Island to the south

Henry Clay's American system Federally funded internal improvements, protective tariffs, and the re-establishment of the bank of the united states.

American imperialism Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.

Olive branch petition

Popham Colony

Political machines

Counter culture A movement, mostly among young people who cast off societal restraint with rebellious clothing and experimental drug use

Changes in farming

Positions on expansion of slavery Argued that slavery was a constitutional right, wanted line established in the Missouri Compromise to extend all the way westward to the Pacific.

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

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