Reconstruction acts
Divided the south into 5 zones under military occupation. Increased requirements for rejoining (also ratify 14th amendment and have universal suffrage)
British impressment
The British continued to kidnap american sailors. Washington sent John Jay to london to negotiate
A dispute over a French fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
Secret ballot
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
Feared that factory owners would use immigrants to keep wages low and to replace striking workers
Engel vs. Vitale
Pendleton Act
Political appointments were very corrupt after a guy shot the president because he didn't get a job, congress passed the Pendleton Act, which created an exam that was used for deciding who would get a job
Market revolution
The linking of northern industries with western and southern farms which was created by advances in agriculture, industry, communication, and transportation
Counter culture
Would prohibit slavery in Missouri if it was admitted into the union
Split from the rest of the baptist church because the northern baptists were abolitionists
Spanish colonization
Colonized to extract wealth through mining and cash crops
Gospel of wealth
Andrew Carnegie argued that those with wealth should invest it into society
Wilson created many wartime agencies to coordinate the war. They encouraged Americans to ration resources and food, took control of railroads, and revitalized industries, causing more urban migration.
John Brown
Napoleon needed money to quell the Haitian revolution, so he sold the Louisiana territory, and Jefferson bought. This was controversial because the constitution didn't specify how to add territory to the union.
Zimmermann telegram
Germany solicited Mexico to become an ally of theirs, and in return they would help Mexico regain the land that they had lost in the Mexican-American war.
By 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau declared that the frontier was officially settled
Hola
Hello
Election of 1828
Chinese exclusion act
Cult of domesticity
A woman's identity and sense of purpose revolved around child-bearing and making her home comfortable for her husband.
Forced segregation and prevented african americans from exercising their civil liberties
Great railroad strike
Railroad companies cut salaries due to a recession. Railroad workers went on strike in 11 states. When the strike got violent, 11 people were killed before President Hayes sent in federal troops
Pushed hard for civil rights, wanted to punish the south. Shifted the process of reconstruction from president to congress
Wanted to keep Germany weak so they wouldn't pose a threat.
Wanted to extract reparations for all the damage Germany had caused
The great migration
Over 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination
Cold war
A conflict between two belligerents where neither engages in conflict with the other
Monroe doctrine
Republican party formed
A coalition of free soilers and whigs and northern democrats who's goal was to stop the spread of slavery.
