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Headright System
as a method for attracting immigrants, Virginia offered 50 acres of land to (1) each immigrant who paid for his own passage and (2) any plantation owner who paid for an immigrant's passage -
House of Burgasses
The first assembly of elected representatives of English colonists in North America. The House was est. by the Virginia Company, who created it to encourage English craftsmen to settle in North America. -
The Mayflower Compact
an agreement composed by a group of the new settlers arriving at New Plymouth; it set up a government from within themselves and was written by those to be governed -
Great Puritian Migration
About a thousand Puritans, led by John Winthrop, sailed for the Massachusetts shore and founded Boston and several other towns; a civil war in Eng in the 1630s drove settlers to the Massachusetts Bay colony -
New England Confederation
formed by four New England colonies in 1643 for assistance against native attacks. It had limited powers to act on boundary disputes, the return of runaway servants, and dealings with the Native Americans. it was important because it est. a precedent for colonies taking unified action toward a -
Navigation Act of 1651
Passed to make sure items were sent and purchased to and from England. All trade was to take place using Eng ships, that were manned by Englishcrews, and taxed by the English. -
Bacons Rebleion
In an uprising in the Virginia Colony in N.A. led by a planter Nathaniel Bacon, about a thousand Virginians rose b/c they resented Virginia Governor William Berkeley's friendly policies toward Native Americans. When Berkeley refused to retaliate for a series of Indian attacks on frontier settlements colonists attacked Indians and chased Berkeley from Jamestown, Virginia.Tt was the first rebellion in the American colonies in which colonists took part of. -
King Philips War
A chief of the Wampanoags named Metacom, or King Philip, united many tribes in southern New England against the English settlers, because they were constantly on the Native Americans' lands. Thousands on both sides were killed, and dozens of towns and villages were burned. The colonial forces won and killed King Philip, ending Native American resistance in New England -
Salem Witch Trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts that started in February 1692 and endend in May 1693. -
Iriqous Confederation
The five Iroquois nations, characterizing themselves as “the people of the longhouse,” were the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and later Tuscarora they had traditionally fought together to thwart colonial advancement. -
Peter Zinger Trial
John Peter Zenger, a New York editor and publisher, was brought to trial on a charge of criticizing New York's corupted royal governor; his lawyer said that his client had printed the truth; according to law, injuring a governor's reputation was considered a criminal act; however, the jury voted to acquit Zenger; while this did not guarantee complete freedom of the press, it encouraged newspapers to take greater risks in criticizing a colony's government. -
The Great Awakining
A movement characterized by expressions of religious feeling among masses of people. The movement was at its strongest during the 1730s and 1740s; had a profound effect on religious practice in the colonies. -
French and Indian war
The French and Indian War is the North American name of the worldwide Seven Years' War. The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, as well as Native American allies. -
Albany Plan
A plan developed by Benjamin Franklin that provided for an intercolonial government and a system for recruiting troops and collecting taxes from the various colonies for their common defense. The plan never took effect because each colony was too jealous of its own taxation powers. It is significant because it set the predecedent for later, more revolutionary congresses in the 1770s -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies. In the terms of the treaty, France gave up all its territories in mainland North America, effectively ending any foreign military threat to the British colonies there. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III after Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act, also known as the American Revenue Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the British Parliament in April, 1764. Taxes from the earlier Molasses Act of 1733 had never been effectively collected, largely due to colonial evasion as the molasses trade grew. -
Stamp Act
Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. It also required colonists to provide food for any British soldiers in the area. -
Quartering Acts
a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. -
Townshed acts
The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed — beginning in 1767 — by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America. The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program. Extention of the previous taxes and acts -
Non Importation Agreement
nonimportation agreements were a series of commercial restrictions adopted by American colonists to protest British revenue policies prior to the American Revolution. Britain's Stamp Act of 1765 triggered the first nonimportation agreements. -
Boston Massacare
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts. -
Gaspee Affair
The Gaspee Affair occurred on June 9, 1772. The HMS Gaspee, a British customs ship, ran aground in Rhode Island and a Sons of Liberty group attacked and set fire to the ship. -
Boston Tea Party
An act of defiance toward the British government by American colonists; it took place in 1773, before the Revolutionary War. The government in London had given a British company the right to sell tea directly to the colonies, thereby undercutting American merchants. -
Intolerable acts
after the boston tea party the british goverment punished the colonists through a series of acts. The british called the the cohersive acts. -
First Continental Congress
All colonies but Georgia went to this Congress in Philadelphia in 1774 to determine how the colonies should react to what, from their viewpoint, seemed to pose an alarming threat to their rights and liberties; no talk of secession from England, just wanted to protest parliamentary acts and restore the relationship they had with Britain before the French and Indian War -
Olive Branch Petition
the colonies made a final offer of peace to Britain, agreeing to be loyal to the British government if it addressed their grievances (repealed the Coercive Acts, ended the taxation without representation policies). It was rejected by Parliament, which in December 1775 passed the American Prohibitory Act forbidding all further trade with the colonies. -
Second Continental Congress
intercolonial assembly that met in Philadelphia on May 10, 1775. All thirteen colonies were represented. They still wanted to just get British acts repealed and wrote new appeals to British people and king, but raised money to create an army and navy -
Declaration of Independance
The Declaration of Independence is defined as the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain. An example of the Declaration of Independence was the document adopted at the Second Continental Congress on July 4th, 1776. -
Battle of Saratoga
After Burgoyne had captured Fort Ticonderoga in July 1777 his troops ran into trouble and became exhausted, supplies ran short, etc. He then sent an expedition to Bennington to capture American supplies but a force of New England militia met them and defeated them. his men were surrounded near Saratoga by the Continental Army, he surrendered. This battle was the turning point of the war and convinced France to aid the American cause. -
Articles of the Confederation
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After considerable debate and alteration, the Articles of Confederation were adopted by the Continental Congress on November 15, 1777. This document served as the United States' first constitution, and was in force from March 1, 1781, until 1789 when the present day Constitution went into effect. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War. -
Western Land Ordinance
The Land Ordinance of 1785 was adopted by the United States Congress of the Confederation on May 20, 1785. It set up a standardized system whereby settlers could purchase title to farmland in the undeveloped west. -
Shay's Rebelion
Shays' Rebellion is the name given to a series of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt. -
Constitutional Convention
n response to the Annapolis Convention's suggestion, Congress called for the states to send delegates to Philadelphia to amend the Articles of Confederation. Delegates came to the convention in May 1787, and drafted an entirely new framework that would give greater powers to the central government. This document became the Constitution. -
Virginia Plan
The Virginia Plan (also known as the Randolph Plan, after its sponsor, or the Large-State Plan) was a proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch. The plan was drafted by James Madison while he waited for a quorum to assemble at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. -
New jersey Plan
The New Jersey Plan (also widely known as the Small State Plan or the Paterson Plan) was a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention on May 22, 1787. -
Northwest ordinance
The 1787 Northwest Ordinance defined the process by which new states could be admitted into the Union from the Northwest Territory. He ordinance forbade slavery in the territory but allowed citizens to vote on the legality of slavery once statehood had been established. The Northwest Ordinance was the most lasting measure of the national government under the Articles of Confederation -
Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion, also known as the Whiskey Insurrection, was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington. The so-called "whiskey tax" was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government. -
bill of Rights
The first ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution, containing a list of individual rights and liberties, such as freedom of speech, religion, and the press. -
Cotton Gin
a machine invented by Eli Whitney that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers. It increased thr development of the south and expanded slavery because there was more time for cotton to be planted. -
Jays Treaty
Jay's Treaty, officially titled “Treaty of Amity Commerce and Navigation, between His Britannic Majesty; and The United States of America,” was negotiated by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Jay and signed between the United States and Great Britain -
XYZ affair
The XYZ Affair was a political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798, early in the administration of John Adams, involving a confrontation between the United States and Republican France that led to an undeclared war called the Quasi-War. -
Kentucky and Virgina Resolutions
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (or Resolves) were political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799, in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. -
Alien and sedation Acts
Citizenship extended from 5 to 14 years. Laws passed by congress in 1798 that enabled the government to imprison or deport aliens and to prosecute critics of the government -
Virgina Kentucky Resolution
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions were political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799. The Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. -
Marbury vs Madison
1803: establishes judicial review as a check on legislative power. Marshall: If the constitution is the supreme law of the land, something must ensure laws are in accordance with it. Judgement against commission. -
The louisiana purchase
The Louisiana Purchase (1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. -
Embargo act
The Embargo Act of 1807 imposed a general embargo that made any and all exports from the United States illegal. It was sponsored by President Thomas Jefferson and enacted by Congress. The goal was to force Britain and France to respect American rights during the Napoleonic Wars. -
The Era of good feelings
The "Era of Good Feeling", a phrase first used in the Boston Columbian Centinel newspaper on July 12, 1817 following the good-will visit to Boston of the new President James Monroe, is generally applied to describe the national mood of the United States from about 1815 to 1825. -
monroe docterine
The Monroe Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy regarding domination of the Americas in 1823. It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention. -
Second great Awakining
The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States. The movement began around 1760, gained momentum by 1800 and, after 1820, membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations whose preachers led the movement. -
Tarrif of abominations
AKA Tariff of 1828; raised the tariff on imported manufactured goods. The tariff protected the North but harmed the South. The South claimed that it was discriminatory and unconstitutional. -
Worcester v. Georgia I
n 1832, when the court invalidated a Georgia law that attempted to regulate access by U.S. citizens to Cherokee counrty. Marshall claimed only the federal govt. could do that. He explained that the tribes were sovereign entities in much the same way Georgia was a sovereign entity. In defending the power of the federal government, he was also affirming and explaining the rights of the tribes to remain free from the authority of state governments. -
Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis in 1832–33, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson,, the Crisis involved a confrontation between South Carolina and the federal government. -
Trail of Tears
I 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. -
Commonwealth vs Hunt
a landmark ruling of the MA supreme court establishing the legality of labor unions and the legality of union workers striking if an employer hired non-union workers. The case was the first judgement in the u.s. that recognized that the conspiracy law is inapplicable to unions and that strikes for a closed shop are legal. -
Prigg vs Pennslyvania
Prigg v. Pennsylvania, 41 U.S. 539 (1842), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that the Federal Fugitive Slave Act precluded a Pennsylvania state law that prohibited blacks from being taken out of Pennsylvania into slavery, and overturned the conviction of Edward Prigg as a result. -
Mexican American War
A war fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848. The United States won the war, encouraged by the feelings of many Americans that the country was accomplishing its manifest destiny of expansion. -
Wilmont Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War . Soon after the war began, President James K. Polk sought the appropriation of $2 million as part of a bill to negotiate the terms of a treaty. -
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is officially entitled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic, It is the peace treaty that ended the mexican american war -
Seneca Falls convention
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War -
Nashville Convention
Meeting of representatives of nine southern states in the summer of 1850 to monitor the negotiations over the Compromise of 1850. It called for extension of the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific Ocean and a stronger Fugitive Slave Law. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
Uncle toms cabin is A novel, first published serially, by Harriet Beecher Stowe; it paints a grim picture of life under slavery. The title character is a pious, passive slave, who is eventually beaten to death by the overseer Simon Legree. -
Gadsednen Purchase
The Gadsden Purchase, or Treaty, was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico. -
Bleeding Kansas
A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in KansasTerritory where new proslavery and antislavery constitutions competed.The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent. 1854- 1861 -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. -
Sumner Brooks affair
Charles Sumner gave a two day speech on the Senate floor. He denounced the South for crimes against Kansas and singled out Senator Andrew Brooks of South Carolina for extra abuse. Brooks beat Sumner over the head with his cane, severely crippling him. -
Dred Scott Case
What decision involved a Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri Compromise had made him a free man. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen. -
Dred Scott vs Sandford
In Dred Scott v. Sandford,the Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court. The Court also ruled that Congress lacked power to ban slavery in the U.S. territories. -
Trent Affair
Charles Wilkes, a U.S. Navy Officer, captured two Confederate envoys aboard the British mail ship, the Trent. Great Britain accused the United States of violating British neutrality, and the incident created a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Great Britain during the Civil War. -
Homestead Act
The Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam was one of the most important events of the American Civil War. Fought on September 17, 1862, Antietam was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history with over 23,000 casualties (men listed as killed, wounded, or captured or missing) in roughly 12 hours. -
Emacipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln. It changed the legal status of more than 3 million enslaved persons in the designated areas of the South from "slave" to "free". -
Morril land grant act
Land-Grant College Act , or Morrill Act, provided grants of land to states to finance the establishment of colleges specializing in “agriculture and the mechanic arts. This act gave colledges free land from the goverment to improve education. -
National Banking Act
The National Bank Act of 1863 was designed to create a national banking system, float federal war loans, and establish a national currency. Congress passed the act to help resolve the financial crisis that emerged during the early days of the American Civil War . -
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, known collectively as the Civil War Amendments, were designed to ensure equality for recently emancipated slaves. The 13th Amendment banned slavery and all involuntary servitude, except in the case of punishment for a crime. The 14th Amendment granted citizenship to all races. The Fifteenth Amendment prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote -
Freedmens Bureau
The U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, popularly known as the Freedmen's Bureau, was established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War .The Freedmen's Bureau was an important agency of early Reconstruction, assisting freedmen in the South. -
Black Codes
In the United States, the Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866, after the Civil War. These laws had the intent and the effect of restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt. -
Civil RIghts Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 granted citizenship and the same rights enjoyed by white citizens to all male persons in the United States "without distinction of race or color, or previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude." -
Tenure of Office Act
he Tenure of Office Act was a United States federal law that was intended to restrict the power of the President of the United States to remove certain office-holders without the approval of the Senate. The law was enacted over the veto of President Andrew Johnson. -
Sewards folly
The Treaty with Russia was negotiated and signed by Secretary of State William Seward and Russian Minister to the United States Edouard de Stoeckl. Critics of the deal to purchase Alaska called it "Seward's Folly” or “Seward's Icebox." -
Crime of '73
The Fourth Coinage Act was enacted by the United States Congress in 1873 and embraced the gold standard and de-monetized silver. U.S. set the specie standard in gold and not silver, upsetting miners who referred to it as a crime. -
Sioux wars
The Great Sioux War of 1876, also known as the Black Hills War, was a series of battles and negotiations which occurred between 1876 and 1877. The wars involved the Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne rebelling against the United States. -
Battle of the little bighorn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to Lakota as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota and the Sioux. -
The compromise of 1877
The Compromise of 1877 was a purported informal, unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. The compromise also pulled federal troops out of state politics in the South and ended the Reconstruction Era. -
Munn v.illinois
Munn v. Illinois, 94 U.S. 113, was a United States Supreme Court case in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the power of government to regulate private industries. -
Bland-Allison Act
The Bland–Allison Act, also referred to as the Grand Bland Plan of 1878, was an act of United States Congress requiring the U.S. Treasury to buy a certain amount of silver and put it into circulation as silver dollars. -
Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow laws, in U.S. history, statutes enacted by Southern states and municipalities, beginning in the 1880s, that legalized segregation between blacks and whites. The name is believed to be derived from a character in a popular minstrel song. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882. It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
Pendleton Act
The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act is a United States federal law, enacted in 1883, which established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation. -
The American Federation of Labor
The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was a national federation of labor unions in the United States. It was founded in Columbus, Ohio, in May 1886 by an alliance of craft unions disaffected from the Knights of Labor, a national labor association. -
Dawes Act
The Dawes Act of was adopted by Congress in 1887. It authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. -
Sherman Anti Trust Act
This act banned any formations that would restrict trade, not distinguishing between bad and good trusts. The act was a hamper on worker unions, but it showed that the government was slowly moving away from laissez faire ideals. -
Social Darwinism
The theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. Now largely discredited, social Darwinism was advocated by Herbert Spencer and others in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform. -
Sherman Silver Purchase Acts
Sherman Silver Purchase Act, 1890, passed by the U.S. Congress to supplant the Bland-Allison Act of 1878. It not only required the U.S. government to purchase nearly twice as much silver as before, but also added substantially to the amount of money already in circulation. -
Pullman Strike
The Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike that pitted the American Railway Union. The strike against the Pullman Company, the main railroads, and the federal government of the United States under President Grover Cleveland. -
Atlanta Compromise
The Atlanta compromise was an agreement struck in 1895 between Booker T. Washington, president of the Tuskegee Institute, and other African-American leaders, and Southern white leaders. It was first supported, and later opposed by W. E. B. Du Bois and other African-American leaders -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal". -
Spanish American War
The Spanish–American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. -
Boxer Rebelion
In 1900, in what became known as the Boxer Rebellion (or the Boxer Uprising), a Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there. -
Open Door Policy
The Open Door Policy is a term in foreign affairs initially used to refer to the United States policy established in the late 19th century and the early 20th century, as enunciated in Secretary of State John Hay's Open Door Note, dated September 6, 1899 and dispatched to the major European powers. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt 26th president, known for: conservationism, trust-busting, Hepburn Act, safe food regulations, "Square Deal," Panama Canal, Great White Fleet, Nobel Peace Prize for negotiation of peace in Russo-Japanese War -
Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty
The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty was a treaty signed on November 18, 1903, by the United States and Panama, which established the Panama Canal Zone and the subsequent construction of the Panama Canal. -
Russo-Japanse war
Russia and Japan were fighting over Korea, Manchuria, etc. Began in 1904, but neither side could gain a clear advantage and win. Both sent reps to Portsmouth, NH where T.Roosevelt mediated Treaty of New Hampshire in 1905. TR won the nobel peace prize for his efforts, the 1st pres. to do so. -
Panema Canal
Panama Canal definition. Waterway across the Isthmus of Panama. The canal connects the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. The United States built it from 1904 to 1914 on territory leased from Panama. -
Roosevelt corrolary
The Roosevelt Corollary was an addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union address in 1904 after the Venezuela Crisis of 1902–03. It threatened action on any country that got involved in western problems. -
Lochner v new york
Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case that held that the "liberty of contract" was implicit in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. -
National Association for the Advancment of Colored People
Naacp. The NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is a civil rights organization founded in 1909 to fight prejudice, lynching, and Jim Crow segregation, and to work for the betterment of "people of color." -
The jungle
The Jungle is a novel written by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair . Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. -
Pure food and drug act
prevented the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
Great White Fleet
The Great White Fleet was the the United States Navy battle fleet that completed a circumnavigation of the globe from December 16, 1907, to February 22, 1909, by order of United States President Theodore Roosevelt. -
Muller v. Oregon
Muller v. Oregon, 208 U.S. 412, was a landmark decision in United States Supreme Court history, as it justifies both sex discrimination and usage of labor laws during the time period. -
Jacob Riis
Jacob August Riis was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer. He publish "How the Other Half Lives" -
Pinchot-Ballinger Affair
The Pinchot–Ballinger affair was a dispute between U.S. Forest Service Chief Gifford Pinchot and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Achilles Ballinger. It contributed to the split of the Republican Party before the 1912 presidential election and helped to define the U.S. -
16th and 17th amendement
The 16th amendment introducing a personal graduated income tax took over three years to be ratified, but the 17th amendment allowing Senators to be elected by popular vote took less than eleven months. -
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, serving two terms from 1913-1919. As president of Princeton University and later as governor of New Jersey, Wilson was a leading Progressive, arguing for a stronger central government and fighting for anti-trust legislation and labor rights. -
Federal reserve system
The Federal Reserve System (FRS) is the central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. -
Federal Trade Commission Act
The Federal Trade Commission Act is a federal law designed to protect consumers from unfair and deceptive practices in the marketplace, as well as to prevent businesses from engaging in monopolizing practices. -
Clayton Anti-trust act
The Clayton Antitrust Act is an amendment passed by the U.S. Congress in 1914 that provides further clarification and substance to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. Busted up monopolies -
Lucitania
a British luxury liner sunk by a German submarine in the North Atlantic. one of the events leading to U.S. entry into World War I. 2. an ancient region and Roman province in the Iberian Peninsula, corresponding generally to modern Portugal. Lusitanian, adjective, noun. -
Keating owen child labor laws
Ended child labor, and ended selling products made from child labor
It was signed by Woodrow Wilson. It also gave congress the responsibility of regulating interstate commerce. -
Zimmerman telegram
The Zimmermann Telegram,issued from the German Foreign Office in January, 1917, proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States' entering World War I against Germany. -
Fourteen Points
The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for world peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson. -
18 amendment
18th amendment-prohibits the manufacture, sale, transporation, importation, or exportation of alcohol. It started the era of prohibition. -
Article X
This part of the Versailles Treaty morally bound the U. S. to aid any member of the League of Nations that experienced any external aggression. -
Treaty of versallies 1919
The Treaty of Versailles (1919) was a document signed between Germany and the Allied Powers following World War I that officially ended that war. It blamed germany for the war. -
Lauge of Nations
International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join. It proved ineffectual in stopping aggression by Italy, Japan, and Germany in the 1930s. -
Schenk v United States
Schenck v. United States, case decided in 1919 by the U.S. Supreme Court. During World War I, Charles T. Schenck produced a pamphlet maintaining that the military draft was illegal, and was convicted under the Espionage Act of attempting to cause insubordination in the military and to obstruct recruiting. -
Warren G. Harding
29th President of the United States. A Republican from Ohio. He promised return to normality after WW1 used efforts of make no enemies during his presdiency. scandals affected his presidency such as the Ohio Gang that had to do with financial jobs that he offered his friends. Died into his presidency. -
Back to Africa Movement
The Back-to-Africa movement, also known as the Colonization movement or Black Zionism, originated in the United States in the 19th century. It encouraged those of African descent to return to the African homelands of their ancestors. -
19th and 20th amendment
The nineteenth amendment gave women the right to vote. The 20th amendment set the dates at which federal (United States) government elected offices end. In also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies. This amendment was ratified on January 23, 1933. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley -
National Industrt recovery Act
The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) was a law passed by the United States Congress in 1933 to authorize the President to regulate industry in an attempt to raise prices after severe deflation and stimulate economic recovery. -
21st amendment
The Twenty-first Amendment (Amendment XXI) to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920. -
Securities and Exchange Commision
The Securities and Exchange Commission is a government commission created by Congress to regulate the securities markets and protect investors. In addition to regulation and protection, it also monitors the corporate takeovers in the U.S. -
Indian reorganization act
The Indian Reorganization Act was U.S. federal legislation that dealt with the status of Native Americans (known in law as American Indians or Indians). It was the centerpiece of what has been often called the "Indian New Deal." -
National Labor Relations Act
Congress enacted the National Labor Relations Act ("NLRA") in 1935 to protect the rights of employees and employers, to encourage collective bargaining, and to curtail certain private sector labor and management practices, which can harm the general welfare of workers, businesses and the U.S. economy -
The works progress administration
The Works Progress Administration was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads -
Neutrality Acts
The Neutrality Acts were laws passed in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939 to limit U.S. involvement in future wars. They were based on the widespread disillusionment with World War I in the early 1930s and the belief that the United States had been drawn into the war through loans and trade with the Allies. -
Lend Lease Act
The matériel and services supplied by the U.S. to its allies during World War II under an act of Congress. The act was passed in 1941: such aid was to be repaid in kind after the war. 2. the two-way transfer of ideas, styles, etc. -
John F Kennedy
A Democratic party political leader of the twentieth century; he was president from 1961 to 1963. His election began a period of great optimism in the United States. He was assasinated 2 years after comming into office. -
Bay of Pigs
Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. government. On Apr. 17, 1961, an armed force of about 1,500 Cuban exiles landed in the Bahía de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs) on the south coast of Cuba. -
Peace Corps
The Peace Corps is a volunteer program run by the United States government. The stated mission of the Peace Corps includes providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States to understand American culture, and helping Americans to understand the cultures of other countries. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missiles deployment in Cuba -
Gideon v. Wainright
In Gideon v. Wainwright , the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution requires the states to provide defense attorneys to criminal defendants charged with serious offenses who cannot afford lawyers themselves. The case began with the 1961 arrest of Clarence Earl Gideon, when he could not afford an attorney so he had to lead his own case and was found gulty when he was innocent. -
Warren Commision
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The Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known as the Warren Commission, was established by President Lyndon B. Johnson on November 29, 1963 to investigate the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy that had taken place on November 22, 1963. -
Lee-Harvey Oswald
Ex-Marine and communist and communist sympathizer who assassianted JFK in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. He was murdered two days later as he was being transferred from one jail to another -
Civil rights Act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It authorized federal action against segregation in public accommodations, public facilities, and employment. -
Economic oppertunity Act
United States Public Law 88-452, the Economic Opportunity Act , authorized the formation of local Community Action Agencies as part of the War on Poverty. These agencies are directly regulated by the federal government. the acts purpose is to "strengthen, supplement, and coordinate efforts in furtherance of that policy" -
Malcom X
Malcolm X was an African-American political leader of the twentieth century. As a prominent Black Muslim, Malcolm X explained the group's viewpoint in a book written by Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X. He was assassinated on febuary 21st, 1965. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The voting Rights Act stopped the use of Jim Crow laws. -
Ralph Nader
A leftist American politician who promotes the environment, fair consumerism, and social welfare programs. His book Unsafe at Any Speed brought attention to the lack of safety in American automobiles. -
Miranda v Arizona
the Supreme Court ruled that detained criminal suspects, prior to police questioning, must be informed of their constitutional right to an attorney and against self-incrimination. Established Miranda rights -
Martin Luther King Jr.
An African-American clergyman and political leader of the twentieth century; the most prominent member of the civil rights movement. He lead peaceful marches and protests and wrote the famous "I have a Dream" speach. -
Equal Rights Amendment
The Equal Rights Amendment (was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal rights for women. The ERA was originally written by Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman. In 1923, it was introduced in the Congress for the first time, but it was ratified in 1972. -
SALT I
The first agreements, known as SALT I was signed by the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1972, and intended to restrain the arms race in strategic (long-range or intercontinental) ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons. -
War powers Act
The War Powers Resolution, or war powers act, is a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. It requires the President to notify Congress within 48 hours of committing armed forces to military action and forbids armed forces from remaining for more than 60 days, with a further 30 day withdrawal period, without an authorization of the use of military force or a declaration of war. -
Roe Vs Wade
Roe vs Wade was the Supreme Court case that held that the Constitution protected a woman's right to an abortion prior to the viability of the fetus; thus, government regulation of abortions must meet strict scrutiny in judicial review. -
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician and author who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was known as "the good guy" -
Washington Outsider
Jimmy Carter was the Washington Outsider in the White House. Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, was elected president in a narrow victory over Gerald Ford in 1976. A former governor of Georgia, Carter presented himself as a political outsider, uncorrupted by Washington. -
Bakke v board of regents
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. It upheld affirmative action, allowing race to be one of several factors in college admission policy. -
Camp Davis Accords
The Camp David Accords were the peace accords signed by Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat to finally end the Israeli-Egyptian disputes. The achievement by Carter is considered his greatest achievement in office. -
Reaganomics
A popular term used to refer to the economic policies of Ronald Reagan.Reganomics called for widespread tax cuts, decreased social spending, increased military spending, and the deregulation of domestic markets. Regan used trickle down economics in order to grow the economy. -
Supply-side economics
An economic theory that holds that, by lowering taxes on corporations, government can stimulate investment in industry and thereby raise production, which will, in turn, bring down prices and control inflation. Regan used this theory in his economic plan. -
Stagflation
In economics, stagflation, a portmanteau of stagnation and inflation, is a situation in which the inflation rate is high, the economic growth rate slows, and unemployment remains steadily high. This happened suring regans presidential term.