The Virginia planThe plan for representation favored by large states. It called for 2 houses with population based representation and a strong national government.
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Women's Christian Temperance UnionWorked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
American protective association
Colonial attitude towards independence
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Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
First great awakeningA revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s.
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Charles Finney
Phyllis SchlaflyOrganized the conservative opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment
Philadelphia convention12/13 states met to amend the articles of confederation. They eventually decided to draft a new constitution
PhilippinesTeddy 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
Ida B. Wells
Nixon's appointments (who he'd assumed who be conservative) ruled in favor of abortion rights
Jacob RiisA photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
Stamp act congressDelegates met in New York to send the "declaration of rights & grievances" to the king. They also organized a boycott of British goods.
Manifest destinyAmericans believed they had a God-given right to have a nation from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
British impressment
WhigsNew party led by Henry Clay. Main difference was disagreement over federal power
Reconstruction acts
John Brown
Thomas GageThe new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws
Railroads supported by the government through money and land grants
Spanish colonization
Congress wanted king George to intervene on their behalf and end the violence. He didn’t read it.
Anti-Saloon leagueWorked to close down saloons
Southern baptistsSplit from the rest of the baptist church because the northern baptists were abolitionists
Madison re-imposed the embargo on Britain because they continued to attack American ships
JamestownThe first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia by a joint stock company
7 years war
Direct election of senatorsGave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
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Led the protests for fair labor for agricultural workers
Great societyAn extension of the New Deal: War on Poverty
Office of Economic Opportunity, Medicare, Medicaid, immigration act
fourteen pointsWilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
Meat inspection actSet standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
British impressmentThe British continued to kidnap american sailors. Washington sent John Jay to london to negotiate
Spanish-American War
Panic of 1819First major recession in the United States
Interstate commerce act
Family seen as foundation of social fabric
Articles of confederationLooked to balance national coordination and states rights to prevent tyranny. It featured a unicameral legislature, but the federal government had no money and no military
Market revolutionThe linking of northern industries with western and southern farms which was created by advances in agriculture, industry, communication, and transportation
Bacons rebellionBritish settlers wanted more land for growing tobacco and they stole it from the natives. The natives retaliated, which infuriated the colonists. When Governor William Berkeley refused to send troops, Nathanial Bacon led angry poor farmers on an attack against the natives, and then on farms owned by Governor Berkeley.
Election of 1844
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
2nd Continental CongressHow would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army
How would they pay for it? New currency
sedition act
the Compromise of 1790Jefferson and Hamilton agreed to pass Hamilton's financial plan in exchange for making Washington D.C. the Capital of the country
Harlem RenaissanceBlack artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
American federation of laborGrew to over a million members by 1901 and had some modest successes
Roger WilliamsA 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
Henry Clay's American systemFederally funded internal improvements, protective tariffs, and the re-establishment of the bank of the united states.
American imperialismIdeas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Olive branch petition
Popham Colony
Political machines
Counter cultureA movement, mostly among young people who cast off societal restraint with rebellious clothing and experimental drug use
Changes in farming
Positions on expansion of slaveryArgued that slavery was a constitutional right, wanted line established in the Missouri Compromise to extend all the way westward to the Pacific.
Common senseAttacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.