Andrew Carnegie
Pioneered vertical integration, where one company controls every stage of the manufacturing process
Engel vs. Vitale
Prohibited prayers in school
Texan independence
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.
GI Bill
Political machines
The embargo
President Jefferson established an embargo on foreign trade in retaliation for Britain and France attacks on American ships.
Cash and Carry
Great society
An extension of the New Deal: War on Poverty
Office of Economic Opportunity, Medicare, Medicaid, immigration act
Raised import duties up to 50%. Supported by industrial northerners and hated by southerners who relied on imports
Interstate commerce act
Required railroad rates to be reasonable and just, and established a federal commission to oversee the railroads
pinckney's treaty
between US and spain, defined border US and spanish florida, guranteed US navigation rights in mississippi river
Thousands of black folks sat a segregated food counters and refused to move until they were taken out by force and jailed
Homestead act
Gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years.
France and others wanted their debt paid back, yet the national government didn’t have money. States had individual economies that didn’t collaborate.
Ida Tarbell
Progressivism
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Containment
Truman took measures to contain the spread of communism. The U.S. would provide economic and military support to any country fighting communism
Britain agreed to abandon outposts on the western frontier. In return the U.S. would favor trade with Britian. However, the treaty failed to address the british kidnapping, and American hatred of Britian caused riots.
Government support for railroads
Railroads supported by the government through money and land grants
Jamestown
Cult of domesticity
French colonization
Expanding the fur trade, later plantations in Louisiana
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
sedition act
applied restrictions to immigration and speech in US made it a crime for americans to print, utter, or publish any false, scandalous, malicious writing about the government
Reduced the tax on molasses, but strengthened the court system to end smuggling, making many wealthy smugglers angry.
All African Americans were citizens of the United States
Farmers had to take debt because they weren’t getting paid. Their land was being repossessed so they rebelled and closed the courts. They used Republican ideals to justify it.
An amendment to a law in congress that stipulated that any land gained in the Mexican-American war wouldn't be ineligible for the spread of slavery. Symbolized the growing tension over westward expansion and slavery.
Hoovervilles
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
divided Nebraska territory into 2 sections, Kansas and Nebraska. Put slavery to a vote in each new state. Effectively overturned the Missouri compromise!
