War hawkes
Younger Americans who had been born after the revolution, were ardent nationalists, and wanted war with Britain to invade Florida and Canada.
Workers formed labor unions to have more negotiating power and fight for better pay and working conditions
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Removed native americans from their land and sent them to reservations west of the Mississippi river.
Self-determination Act of 1975
Gave Native Americans much greater control over their lands, education, and law enforcement
Compromise of 1820
Bring in Missouri and Maine at the same time to keep the balance of power. Also limited slavery above a certain latitude.
The middle ground
The areas where both colonists and native people would trade and coexist
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.
King Philip's war
King Metacomet (King Philip), forges a massive military alliance with other native tribes and attacked Massachusetts in retaliation for the praying towns
The Albany conference
Meeting between leaders of 7 colonies to create a plan for joint defense and administration of the colonies. "Join or die"
Nixon's appointments (who he'd assumed who be conservative) ruled in favor of abortion rights
Rise 0f Chesapeake slavery
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
Virtual representation
The idea that each representative in parliament represented the empire as a whole, and therefore, the colonies were represented.
Established the western hemisphere as a U.S.-dominated sphere of influence without European involvement.
Convention of 1818
More American fishing rights, set the U.S. - Canada border at the 49th parallel, and called for the joint-occupation of Oregon
Different branches of government could check each other to prevent abuse of power.
American temperance society
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Truman took measures to contain the spread of communism. The U.S. would provide economic and military support to any country fighting communism
Jay treaty
Britain agreed to abandon outposts on the western frontier. In return the U.S. would favor trade with Britian. However, the treaty failed to address the british kidnapping, and American hatred of Britian caused riots.
Election of 1824
The divisions within the Democratic-Republican party led them to choose 4 candidates, while Jackson's populist campaign won the popular vote, no candidate won enough electoral votes. Adams and Clay made a deal and the house voted for Adams.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Made discrimination on the basis of race, religion, or sex illegal
Pushed hard for civil rights, wanted to punish the south. Shifted the process of reconstruction from president to congress
Whiskey rebellion
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.
British colonization
Economic and religious liberty
Her refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger, and subsequent arrest sparked a massive bus boycott
Andrew Carnegie
Sinking of the Lusitania
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
Philippines
Teddy 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
