Wanted to end indian culture by forcing them to assimilate to American values.
Advocated violence when necessary in defense of black rights
Federalists
Decolonization
After WWII there was a massive movement of decolonization throughout the world. Many of these new nations were unstable and needed aid, creating perfect conditions for proxy wars
Red scare
House Unamerican activities community searched for communist influence in American society (Government, military, film industry, Boy Scouts)
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
By 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau declared that the frontier was officially settled
American protective association
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Expansion of democracy
Voting rights were expanded to all white males
George Whitefield
A staunch Calvinist who began preaching outdoors in England. He moved to the colonies in 1740. In 2 years he was able to speak to over a quarter of the American population
Madison declared war on great Britain
N.A.A.C.P
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Spain sells Florida
U.S. wanted Florida for nationalist reasons and because slaves and outlaws kept hiding out there. After retaliating for a raid, Spain gives up and sells Florida for $5 million
Broke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves
Mexican-American war
White collar workers
All the industrialization created a new type of work for managers and administrators who ran the factories instead of working in them
Proclamation of 1763
Roe v. Wade
Southern baptists
Split from the rest of the baptist church because the northern baptists were abolitionists
Panic of 1893
Roosevelt persuaded Congress to pass a looser version of the neutrality act that allowed anyone to purchase arms from the U.S. as long as they paid in cash and used their own ships to transport it
Attitudes towards Germany
Asiento System
System that took slaves to the New World to work for the Spanish. Required that a tax be paid to the Spanish ruler for each slave brought over.
Anaconda plan
Plan to completely cut off the south by blockading southern ports and eventually the Mississippi river
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
N.O.W.
Ida B. Wells
the Compromise of 1790
Madison re-imposed the embargo on Britain because they continued to attack American ships
