Malcom X
Advocated countering white violence with black violence
Compromise of 1877
The contested election was decided by a Republican-leaning committee the obv chose the Republican candidate. Democrats threatened to filibuster
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.
Political machines
Corrupt political bosses and their followers
From 1820 to 1840 nearly 2 million immigrants (mainly from Germany and Ireland) showed up
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger
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
Madison declared war on great Britain
Madison declared war. "Would Americans remain independent or become colonists again?"
Pullman strike
After a railroad car manufacturer cut wages, and the union tried to negotiate, the company failed them all. The railroad union decided to not work on any trains with Pullman cars in them. The railroad owners tied the Pullman cars to mail trains in order to get the government to keep them moving, and the union members were jailed
Black codes
Restricted the civil rights of african americans in the south. Made it harder to vote, own property, even banned them from testifying against white people
Split from the rest of the baptist church because the northern baptists were abolitionists
Engel vs. Vitale
Chinese exclusion act
Nativists successfully pressured Congress to stop the flow of Chinese immigrants who were coming over during the gold rush.
Annapolis convention
sedition act
applied restrictions to immigration and speech in US made it a crime for americans to print, utter, or publish any false, scandalous, malicious writing about the government
Roanoke Colony
Britians first colony, established in outer banks, NC. When they came back, it was abandonded
Declaratory act
NAWSA
Worked to secure voting rights for women
White supremacy
John D. Rockefeller
Interstate commerce act
Required railroad rates to be reasonable and just, and established a federal commission to oversee the railroads
Cult of domesticity
Knights of labor
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
Panic of 1819
First major recession in the United States
Treaty of New Echota
1) Establish the U.S. credit worthiness 2) Unify the states' debt 3) Create a national bank 4) Whiskey tax to pay for the revolution 5) Establish tariffs to protect american businesses
Marshall plan
War hawkes
Younger Americans who had been born after the revolution, were ardent nationalists, and wanted war with Britain to invade Florida and Canada.
Age of passion
Politics was very negative with the rise of political parties, political violence, and deep political divisions
