Charles Finney
New york preacher who spoke powerfully with images that common folks could understand.
Indentured Servants
Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
A woman's identity and sense of purpose revolved around child-bearing and making her home comfortable for her husband.
Dutch Wedge
New Netherlands separated England's northern and southern colonies, until they just took it with very little resistance
Reservation system
Indian nations were assigned land called reservations. However this land was much less than before, and many decided to just keep following buffalo
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
More American fishing rights, set the U.S. - Canada border at the 49th parallel, and called for the joint-occupation of Oregon
Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
virginia and kentucky resolutions
drafted by thomas jefferson and james madison, claimed that alien and sedition acts were unconstitutional and overstepped federal authority under the constitition, and could therefore be nullified by the states
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Prohibited racial discrimination in the voting booth
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
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.
Georgia government
Forced segregation and prevented african americans from exercising their civil liberties
Madison declared war on great Britain
Madison declared war. "Would Americans remain independent or become colonists again?"
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Colony founded by John Winthrop, part of the Great Puritan Migration, founded by puritans. Had a theocratic republic. "City upon a hill"
Baker vs. Carr
Mandated fair congressional districts
Knights of labor
National union open to ALL laborers. Wanted to end child labor and end trusts
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Established the southern border of the United States and granted a huge portion of land known as the Mexican cession which included California and new Mexico
Teddy Roosevelt progressivism
Believed the president should set the legislative agenda for Congress. He led congress to pass a series of laws on consumer protection and enviornmental conservation
Election of 1824
The 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.
Marshall plan
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)
Hoovervilles
White supremacy continued to dominate. Secret societies continued to terrorize African Americans (and Catholics, jews, and immigrants)
Harlem Renaissance
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Kansas-Nebraska act
divided Nebraska territory into 2 sections, Kansas and Nebraska. Put slavery to a vote in each new state. Effectively overturned the Missouri compromise!
There was an extreme lack of government regulation of the economy at the time
Ethan Allen and the Green mountain boys surround fort Ticonderoga, steal it's cannons, and bring them back to Boston
