Ethan Allen and the Green mountain boys surround fort Ticonderoga, steal it's cannons, and bring them back to Boston
Tallmadge amendment
Would prohibit slavery in Missouri if it was admitted into the union
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"
alien laws
authorized the president to deport "aliens" and permitted their arrest imprisonment and deportation during war time
Effects of the War of 1812
Fries rebellion
Farmers in southeast Pennsylvania stopped paying taxes for the larger military. John Fries led a peaceful protest, but John Adams ordered federal troops to stop the protest, and they made mass arrests, assaulted newspaper editors, and almost executed John Fries.
Attacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.
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
White supremacy
White supremacy continued to dominate. Secret societies continued to terrorize African Americans (and Catholics, jews, and immigrants)
Ida B. Wells
Editor of a newspaper editorialized against lynching and jim crow. She fled north due to threats against her
Knights of labor
National union open to ALL laborers. Wanted to end child labor and end trusts
The growing popularity of technologies like movies and the radio meant that everyone was listening to the same things, which helped create a more unified culture and distinct identity
How would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army
How would they pay for it? New currency
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
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
The linking of northern industries with western and southern farms which was created by advances in agriculture, industry, communication, and transportation
New American identity
Noah Webster's dictionary standardized the spelling and pronunciation of American language
Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege
Starting in 1865 many Americans started pushing westward again after the interruption of the civil war
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Made discrimination on the basis of race, religion, or sex illegal
Second great awakening
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Labor unions
Workers formed labor unions to have more negotiating power and fight for better pay and working conditions
Stopped the president from removing a member of their cabinet without congressional approval (Johnson had tried to remove his secretary of war, who was a radical Republican)
American imperialism
Wilmot Proviso
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.
James Oglethorpe
Got the royal charter for Georgia because he wanted to establish a colony for the "worthy poor" (the people in debtors prisions). England also wanted protection from Spanish Florida.
A revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s.
Cold war
A conflict between two belligerents where neither engages in conflict with the other
Treaty of New Echota
