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
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
Assimilationist movement
Wanted to end indian culture by forcing them to assimilate to American values.
In opposing the stamp act, the colonists said trade should be regulated instead. Parliament passed the townshend acts and began taxing imports and exports.
Korematsu vs. U.S.
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Nativists successfully pressured Congress to stop the flow of Chinese immigrants who were coming over during the gold rush.
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
Argued that the Supreme Court had engaged in a gross abuse of power
Shay’s rebellion
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.
John Brown
Led a small raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. His goal was to arm the southern slave population and incite a slave rebellion
Britian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left
Scopes Monkey trial
In Tennessee it was illegal to teach Darwin's theory of evolution to children. A teacher was arrested for teaching it to his class. In the end, the conviction was thrown out on a technicality.
Annapolis convention
Meeting between leaders of 7 colonies to create a plan for joint defense and administration of the colonies. "Join or die"
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
Madison re-imposed the embargo on Britain because they continued to attack American ships
Growth of immigration
16 million immigrants (mostly from Europe) came looking for better economic opportunities
The British continued to kidnap american sailors. Washington sent John Jay to london to negotiate
Watts Riots of 1965
After the arrest of a black motorist by white officers, rioters killed over 30 people and destroyed hundreds of buildings in Los Angeles
Palmer raids
alien laws
authorized the president to deport "aliens" and permitted their arrest imprisonment and deportation during war time
Monroe doctrine
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Sedition act of 1918
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
All paper products sold in the colonies had to be stamped and pay a small tax. It spurred on revolutionary ideals.
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
Increased nativism
Pushed hard for civil rights, wanted to punish the south. Shifted the process of reconstruction from president to congress
March on Washington
Hundreds of thousands gathered for a peaceful protest in front of the lincoln memorial. MLK gave his 'I have a dream' speech
