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This first colony was established for money and was located in Jamestown. There was a period of time that was known as the starving time because people were dying of starvation, as well as disease. The Native Americans helped them out and taught them how to survive on their own. However, they threw them to the side when they discovered tobacco and it became the first cash crop. -
Slavery began in Jamestown and soon slaves replaced indentured servants. People in the South tended to own more slaves and lived separate to them. The way that they were treated in the North was better, but still not the best, and they were given less harsh treatment and greater freedom. -
The Great Awakening was a spiritual re-awakening that was led by Johnathan Edwards and George Whitefield. Edwards was involved with the thought that God was going to punish us all for our sins. Meanwhile, Whitefield believed that God loved us all and would forgive us no matter what. The Great Awakening revolved around our own individual relationship with God, and both of the preachers taught equality in the eyes of God. -
The puritans left England and traveled to New England to have more religious freedom. They landed in Boston, and then migrated to New England. John Winthrop was their leader, and he saw the opportunity to make the new world a “City on a Hill.” -
Benjamin Franklin made a political cartoon and named it ‘Join or Die’ during the 7 Years War. He made it after he noticed that the colonies weren’t united to show them that they could beat the French together. After he created it, it was put up for a vote and people voted against it. He still wanted to unite the colonies after it was rejected and kept trying. -
After the French and Indian War, the first thing that Parliament passed was the Sugar Act. This was because people were smuggling sugar because they couldn’t afford it. The British Prime Minister thought that people would stop smuggling if he was able to lower the tax that they were paying. However, this plan of his did not work because people kept smuggling anyway. They weren’t going to pay for the unfair way that they were being treated and taxed. -
The Quartering Act created a lot of tension between the British and the Colonists. This was because people were being forced into housing as well as feeding those who were serving. The colonists did not like this because their privacy and space were being invaded. -
The Stamp Act made revenue have a direct tax. It affected everyone in the colonies and it made everyone pay for the stamps that they needed for legal documents. They also taxed goods in the colonies. The colonists decided that they would have no taxation without representation. -
The new Townshend Acts taxed the goods that were being imported from Britain and paid for the government officials’ salaries. Due to these Acts being passed, the British soldiers were allowed to search anywhere and the colonists had even less rights than before. -
The colonists were upset because of benign neglect, and they didn’t like the new acts that were being forced onto them. The Boston Massacre was one of the few things that occurred while they were fighting back against the British. People were trying to provoke the British guards into using violence and then a fight broke out. Unfortunately, it got out of hand and there was a shot heard which led to a panic and the death of five civilians. -
Colonists were tired of the tax on tea and other products. This led them into throwing barrels of tea into the harbor. As they did this, they were dressed up as Indians, and a lot of them were drunk. The tea was gone by nine o’clock in the evening. -
Thomas Paine wrote a propaganda piece that spoke to the common people. It spoke about the independence that they all deserved, and inspired people to fight for it even harder than before. -
The Declaration of Independence was important for the colonies because it finally separated them from the British. They were happy to make their own country and be more independent. -
The settlers and the Indians had some tension between them because the grab for Native American land was denied. It was the first time that black and white indentured servants worked with the new slaves against the government. -
After being under British power for so long, the colonies didn’t want a king or a standing army because they were scared to go back to the way things were. They also didn’t want to deal with the Quartering Act again, and it was decided that the states would hold the power. There was tension between the North and the South because slavery was coming to an end. -
The Treaty of Paris was so that borders could be determined and so that the United States could be declared as independent. This treaty also issued peace with France, England, and Spain. -
The Revolutionary War caused many farmers to go into debt or even lose their farms. If they weren’t able to pay it back, they would be sent to debtors' prisons. The farmers got angry due to this and started to rebel and overthrow courthouses, but wealthy business owners managed to put together a private army to stop them. This rebellion showed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation. -
Slaves started to count toward the total population. This was because we needed more representatives. The only difference was that instead of counting as a whole person, they would could as only 3/5ths of one. -
George Washington was a great leader during the war and the people chose him to be their first president. This meant that he had to set a good example as well as precedents for the presidents after him. He was well respected and a strong leader. -
The idea of a national bank was first brought up by Alexander Hamilton. It was made as a repository for federal funds. -
The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney in 1791. It removed the seeds from the cotton fiber so that it would be easier and less harmful to pick. This made the cotton more profitable. -
Farmers from Pennsylvania didn’t want to pay any tax, so they refused until it was enforced by the army. This held the government’s power up higher. -
The Americans were allowed more access to the Mississippi River. Spain let them freely travel there as well as the port of New Orleans. -
The president was allowed to deport any immigrant that was considered dangerous under the Alien Act. The Sedition Act was where it was illegal to criticize and talk bad about the president and/or congress and publish it. This was made by President Adams so that he would win once again when he ran against Jefferson. -
After being shown a letter by Madison that was allowing John Marbury to have a federal job, Jefferson decided that it should not be delivered. John was not pleased with the letter not arriving, so he sued Madison so that he could get the position that he believed he deserved. The Supreme Court then sided with Madison and denied Marbury the job. Due to this case, the Supreme Court claimed the right to declare laws unconstitutional and strike them down, also known as ‘Judicial Review.’ -
When President Jefferson was elected, he had to face a very hard decision that went against what he stood for. He didn’t want to lose control of New Orleans and access to the Mississippi River, so he sent James Monroe to negotiate for the purchase of New Orleans for three million dollars. Napoleon however, wants fifteen million dollars. Jefferson was unsure of what to do because of his strict views, but he decided to make the purchase because that’s what he saw was best for the country. -
The Embargo Act of 1807 spurred domestic manufacturing, however, it hurt trade in the U.S. This was because the act stopped all foreign trade. The port cities that depended on trade for revenue were affected the most. -
The person who wrote the Star Spangled Banner was a prisoner that witnessed Fort McHenry being bombarded. When morning came, he noticed that the flag was still standing. He then wrote the poem that later turned into our national anthem. -
In August of 1814, the British military marched down to Washington D.C. There was a fight that broke out because of their invasion and people started to fight all over the city. Many of the government buildings were razed. They then set fire to the United States Capitol building. The first lady, Dolly Madison became a hero in people’s eyes because she saved a portrait of George Washington, as well as other important government treasures. -
The Election was between Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, and William H. Crawford. Since none of the candidates got the majority vote, the vote had to go to the House of Representatives. This caused Henry Clay to drop out of the election since he was the head of the House and he didn’t want the vote to be unfair. Adams met with Clay, and then Adams had the support of the House. This caused him to win the election, and he then appointed Clay as his secretary of state. -
The Monroe Doctrine stated that the United States would not get involved in any European affairs and that we wouldn’t interfere with any of their colonies in the Western Hemisphere. It was also said that no new colony would be able to form there. The United States would see it as hostility against the nation if a European nation tried to control or interfere with a nation in the Western Hemisphere. -
The Spoils System was created by President Jackson, but he called it ‘rotation and office.’ He fired over 200 employees, and instead of choosing qualified men for the job, he chose democrats and people that agreed with him. He would have rather rewarded his supporters than people that are actually fit for government jobs. -
The telegraph was created by Samuel Morse. It allowed people to communicate easily through a wire. This system was spread all throughout the country. You would use Morse code to put in each letter. It was time consuming, but it took less time than before. -
The Second Great Awakening was led by Charles Finney and Lyman Beecher. There was a bigger part of the movement for women and they helped out the most during this time. They used the church as the main location for social change. Just like the first one, it was emotionally driven and it was about their personal relationship with God and the members of the church. -
Andrew Jackson decided that he wanted the Indians removed from their land. He forced the Cherokee nation to migrate west and give up their land. Over 4,000 of the Cherokees died from hunger, disease, and exhaustion. They weren’t given any warning and they didn't have much time to pack their things up for the long walk that would be the Trail of Tears. -
The Southern States were threatening to nullify the law because they were angry about tariffs. John C. Calhoun believed that tariffs were in the North’s favor and that the state’s could declare the law null and void. Jackson lowered the tariff, but it still wasn’t good enough for the South. The South decided to announce that they would secede if they didn’t get rid of the tariff. Jackson didn’t get rid of it, but he did announce that secession would be considered treason. -
The Liberator was a newspaper that was created by William Lloyd Garrison. It was anti-slavery and it denounced everything that would prolong slavery. This was including the United States Constitution. -
Texas started out as a state in Mexico. No one wanted to live in the area that the people from Texas wanted to move to, so they offered incentives to America. They said that if we moved, we would get free land, which means that we had more opportunity. However, they also required the Americans to become catholic, a Mexican citizen, and we had to be productive with the land. There were so many Americans that they had to close the border. America then claimed Texas and it claimed independence. -
This treaty was a negotiation between Americans and Mexicans. It was the end of the war between us and territories were split up. It was decided that we got Texas, New Mexico, California, Arizona, and Rio Grande. -
Henry Clay came up with a compromise for the North and the South to stop arguing over the new states. He decided that California would be joining the union as a free state and that the slave trade would be abolished in Washington D.C. He stated that popular sovereighty would decide if the new territories would be joining as a slave or free state. -
When Kansas finally reached the right population to become a slave, the North and the South wanted to make it their own (slave or free state). Both sides had the idea to start sending people to Kansas so that they could persuade them to side with them. Kansas started to lean more towards being a free state, and the South did not like that. A pro-slave posse went into Kansas and wrecked everything and stuffed the ballot box with pro-slavery votes. -
Two different railroad companies were hired to start building the new railroad. There was the Union Pacific railroad that used veterans from the Civil War, as well as Irish immigrants and they started in Omaha, NE. The Central Pacific railroad started in sacraments, CA and used Chinese immigrant labor. There were different amounts of money that they could earn depending on where they were placing the railroad. They met at Promontory Point, UT. -
Lincoln thought that he could unify the nation if no feelings of animosity were involved. He made the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction, which would pardon Confederate leaders if they swore an oath and agreed on emancipation. He also said that the states could return to the nation if 10% of them swore loyalty to the nation and new state constitutions were written to where it would outlaw slavery. -
President Lincoln was killed at the Petersen House while watching a play. John Wilkes Booth was upset about the 10% plan because he thought that Lincoln was letting the Confederate states off too easily from them seceding. He went up to where Lincoln was sitting with his wife and shot him in the back of the head. -
This is where the Civil War ends. Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union that was being led by Ulysses S. Grant. Grant was planning to capture the rest of the Confederate troops. -
The 14th Amendment made it to where all of the people that were born in the United States were immediately full citizens. People that have completed a citizenship process were also considered full citizens. Due to this Amendment, former leaders in the Confederacy were no longer able to hold state or federal offices. If a state denied people their voting rights, they would lose representation in Congress. -
The 15th Amendment gave African Americans the right to vote and prohibited any state from denying someone their right to vote. It didn’t matter who they were, they still required their rights. This was very unpopular in the North because they saw a difference between former slaves having freedom and them having rights. -
100% of the South voted for Samuel Tilden, which made the North question the votes. The North demanded a recount and one was started in Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana. Those 3 states went to Rutherford B. Hayes, which angered the South because this crisis was not accounted for in the Constitution. 5 people from each party and 5 Supreme Court Justices were put up to the final decision. Afterwards, Hayes was named president and military oversight of the South ended. -
There was a rally held in Chicago in order to be able to support shorter work days on May 4th in 1886. The police arrived to confront the crowd and it became violent. There was a bomb thrown and police started to fire. It now symbolizes worker’s rights and their struggles. -
Passed in 1887, the Dawes Act acted like the Native Americans’ Homestead Act. It offered 160 acres of land to each Native family. They took advantage of this opportunity because they needed to own their own land for their family instead of living on their former owners land. People saw it as a generous act from the government, but that is not the way that it was intended. They made the Dawes Act because they wanted to break their tribal ties and take their land from them. -
Booker T. Washington preached that African Americans should focus on racial solidarity and accommodation. He created the Atlanta Compromise to give up trying to become equal for some time. While they were waiting, they focused on improving the community and educating their children. -
Homer Plessy sued because he was told he couldn’t sit in the car that white people sat in. If a white person bought a better ticket, they would get a better bus, however, if a black person bought a better ticket, they would still have to sit in the same train. When he took it to court, he lost in a 7-1 decision and the segregation laws remained. In the eyes of the Supreme Court, former slaves could be “separate, but equal.” -
Written by Upton Sinclair, The Jungle was an attempt to support socialism in the nation. It ended up showing everyone how the meat-packing industry abused conditions. The industry was shown to be unsanitary and selling the meat anyways. -
President Theodore Roosevelt read The Jungle and he noticed that something had to be done to fix the abuses and conditions of certain industries. He created the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act to make sure that misbranded or contaminated food or drugs weren’t sold to the public for health reasons. The Elkins and Hepburn Act prohibited companies from charging higher rates for shipping. -
Henry Ford created the Model T automobile in 1908. He made a moving assembly line to be able to produce cars more efficiently and was able to reduce the time necessary to make each one. The production time went from 12 hours to 90 minutes and $840 to $280. Due to the new production line, employees got better wages and shorter hours and they got a better schedule. This made him have better employees. The car industry expanded other companies such as steel, oil, glass, and more. -
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded by W.E.B. DuBois because he wanted to fight for equality. This group wanted to eliminate race prejudice and equality for all minority groups. -
Germans started to sink ships without warning and 128 Americans were killed when a U-boat sank. Four other ships were then attacked and the U.S. was angered. There was then the Zimmerman Telegram which leaked information about a secret alliance between Germany and Mexico which was viewed as an act of war. This caused the United States to join the war two months later. -
Patriotism was spreading around the nation due to the war. Everyone started to fear the spread of communism and people that were seen as unpatriotic or that stood against it were ostracized. Knowledge of the Russian Revolution caused a panic and it became known as the Red Scare. -
The war caused black Americans from the South to move North due to the Jim Crow Segregation Laws. This era caused more artistic expression to be created in the black community. There were new journalists, poets, musicians, and artists that showed their pride in being black. The Harlem Renaissance also began the Jazz Age and it became so popular that the whites also began to listen to it. -
Marcus Garvey wanted all African Americans to be proud of where they came from and their identity. He created the ‘Back to Africa’ movement for all of the black community to be sent to Africa and show that. He was tired of always being left on the sidelines and he was labeled a radical agitator. Later in life, he was convicted for tax evasion and he was then deported to Jamaica. -
The 18th Amendment was passed and it was known as the Volstead Act. This outlawed the manufacturing, sale, distribution, and transportation of any alcoholic beverage nationwide. However, instead of decreasing the amount of alcohol, it made it even worse. The organized crime increased and bootleggers were created. Bootleggers started to do all of the things prohibited and people began to have illegal speakeasies. -
In 1920, there was a court case that involved two acknowledged anarchists. They were accused of murdering a shopkeeper, execution style. Someone needed to pay for the consequences of the crime. They were found guilty and were sentenced to death. This caused protests and debates to begin over civil rights. -
There was a new Act that caused the amount of immigrants entering the U.S. to decrease drastically. It limited the number to only two percent of the population from that country to be able to enter. However, the number of the population used was from the year 1890. This made it even lower than it already would be because the population that year was smaller. -
The teachings of evolution were banned in a town in Tennessee. A certain science teacher in the area taught it even though it was forbidden. His name was John Scopes and he was charged and brought to trial because he taught his students the science of evolution. This caused a debate to be started up and there was a lot of tension between people because of the science. He was then found guilty. -
The Klu Klux Klan reached five million members after they weren’t seen since the 1880’s. They were against African Americans, Jews, immigrants, and Catholics. They used violence and were a threat to people of color and different religions or countries. They used political means as well and they decided to march in 1926 in Washington. -
There was an economic and environmental disaster across a few states called the Dust Bowl. The grasses were plowed up in order to meet the needs of the blooming wheat market. There was then soil exhaustion and erosion, drought, and strong winds. The crops then turned to dust and people were left without food. The winds blew all of the dust away and buried people’s homes and blew fields away. Families were forced to move to California because the food became scarce and it was hard to even breath. -
The veterans from the great war were promised a bonus for fighting but they weren’t going to be given that bonus until 1945. However, because of the depression, they all needed them as soon as they could get it. They agreed to march in Washington to get what they earned. They were sent home, but some stayed regardless to keep protesting. President Hoover ended up bringing in the army to evict them. However, the camp set by the veterans was burned and a lot of them ended up injured. -
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was made to check all banks in order to see if they were being run properly. There was a national bank holiday so that the banks could be inspected. The banks that passed could reopen and keep running business as usual. If the banks failed, they had to keep working on learning to run things smoothly until they were able to reopen. -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president and made the New Deal. He wanted to create programs to help with the depression caused by the war. The New Deal created new agencies and programs to protect them from more disasters occurring to the economy. He raised government spending and people liked his ideas because they were helping them to get out of the depression. -
The Social Security Act made Americans start leaning towards retirement because of the safety net that was created for them. It was based on a shorter lifespan and it was intended to supplement their income. It was made to raise revenue and because they wanted a social security board. -
The Works Progress Administration was considered the biggest agency that was created. Eight million people were employed and it had a two million dollar funding which helped with bridges, reservoirs, irrigation, sewage, schools, and more. This helped the unemployment rate to decrease and people could start working again and earning minimum wage. -
The House of Unamerican Activities Committee looked out for any possible communists. They wanted to see who was loyal and who wasn’t loyal to the U.S. This was created in order to keep government secrets in and so that Russian spies wouldn’t get information that could possibly harm the country. They then got the Hollywood 10 arrested for not denying communist beliefs because they believed in their right to remain silent. -
The United States wanted Japan to leave China and Indochina alone and Japan thought that attacking the U.S. would give them a new territory with new land and resources. Because of this, Japan began to search for a pacific genre. This caused the U.S. to join the second world war and joined forces with Great Britain to fight against Japan. Germany and Italy then declared war on the United States. -
Congress of Racial Equality focused on peaceful racial equality. They improved race relations and end discriminatory policies by creating marches, protests, court cases, and more. Their goal was to shine a light on inequality. -
There was a rumor that was going around the black community that a mob of white people threw a black woman and her baby over the Belle Isle Bridge. This caused blacks to loot and destroy the white’s property as revenge. -
The largest seaborne invasion in history occurred. Allies spent 18 months planning and training for this attack that became the turning point of the war. Their ships and troops crossed the English channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy. They had planes that included bombers, fighters, and troop planes. Troops arrived the night prior in order to secure bridges and roads before the attack. Paris was then liberated and the Germans left France, which ended the Battle of Normandy . -
The G.I. Bill of Rights was created to thank the soldiers from fighting in the war. This paid for their education and gave low interest home loans as well as business loans. This was useful for when the baby boom started because they would be able to have more stable jobs to support their families -
The United Nations met for the first time for the Potsdam Conference. They discussed what would happen with Germany and Japan after WWII. They wanted to keep peaceful and friendly relations with other nations and talked more about human rights. FDR ended up dying and President Truman took his place. -
President Truman wanted to help Greece and Turkey fight against any communist threats. In order to do this, he asked congress for 400 million dollars in aid and U.S. troops and advisors. The Truman Doctrine states that the United States should support any country or person to protect them from Soviet forces. It helped prevent the spread of communism after the second world war because we supported possible targets. -
Because Stalin wanted to take control over the entire city of Berlin, the USSR created a blockade on railway, road, and canal traffic. The blockade led to West Berlin from the allied German zone. This made it impossible for everyone inside to get any supplies, which was Stalin’s plan in order to starve them into submission. President Truman found a way to get food to the people by flying over Berlin with an airlift. -
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is put together and it consists of ten European countries, the United States, and Canada. The reason it was created was because they all came together to sign the Washington Treaty. NATO is an alliance which brings free and sovereign countries together so they can have a proper security system that works for all. -
Julius and Ethel were Russian spies that were convicted of conspiring against the U.S. They gave the Soviet Union information that sped up their process of creating the atomic bomb. They were sentenced to death under the Espionage Act because they leaked secrets involving national defense. -
Plessy v. Ferguson came to the conclusion of separate but equal, but it was never equal. The black schools had a lower level of books and materials and everything was out of date. They didn’t have as many services and their teachers were underqualified. Then there was a little girl, Linda Brown, that had to walk two white public schools before she could arrive to hers. It was taken to court and Thurgood Marshall represented her and they overturned Plessy and won. -
While visiting family in Mississippi, little Emmitt Till was kidnapped. He was fourteen when he died. He was beaten and shot in the head because he whistled at a white woman while he was out. The men didn’t stop until he was dead and the two men were arrested. Unfortunately, they were then acquitted by an all white jury. They bragged about what they did to the kid and it was published in an article. -
Rosa Parks was chosen to go test the Jim Crow laws on a bus in 1955. She refused to give up her seat on the bus in Montgomery Alabama. When she was arrested for taking that challenge, black leaders began to boycott and it lasted 382 days. When this happens, the bus companies started to join in to support their black customers because they make up 75 percent of their customers. -
The Act was the largest public works project that was created. This made it possible for the roadways in America to be updated and be made more modern. The Cold War created fears as to which this system made it easier to escape. Evacuation was faster and it required less thought and there were emergency runways created. -
The space age begins when Russia launches the first artificial satellite named Sputnik. This shocked the U.S. because the USSR beat them to space. It took a year for the United States to get something into space. The space race then began. No one knows who truly won. -
The new law was that blacks could go to white public schools, but black people were scared of the way they would be treated and didn’t go. This was until the Little Rock 9, which consisted of 9 black kids that enrolled into the high school, but the governor denied their entrance. He even sent the Arkansas National Guard to not let them through. Then President Eisenhower ordered troops to make sure the nine kids were able to make it in. -
Nixon and Kennedy had the first presidential debate that was televised. Nixon had a proven track record and was a qualified presidential candidate. Kennedy however did not have much experience in politics or business. Kennedy was able to look more professional on camera because he put on makeup to look less pale on it and he had a better posture. Nixon was sweating and looked sickly because he denied help from the camera crew, which made him seem unprofessional. -
An American spy plane was shot down while in the Soviet Union. The pilot of the plane was Gary Powers and he didn’t follow the procedure. He was supposed to drink a chemical that killed him so he wouldn’t leak any of the U.S. information. Instead, he was captured and put on trial. He was tortured and gave out information. -
Ruby Bridges was the first black student to attend an all white elementary school in the south. Due to the unfair treatment all around the country against black people. She had to be escorted to and from school by federal marshals due to people insulting her and throwing things. This helped advance the civil rights movement. -
Four college students in Greensboro North Carolina went to a segregated area to eat and attempted to order. The workers refused to serve them and the students decided to stay until they were served or got arrested. They inspired others to do the same and they were finally served 6 months later. -
C.O.R.E. and SNCC organized groups of students, both black and white, to take rides through the south to test the new laws against segregation. A lot of the groups were attacked and busses were even bombed by racist white mobs. The commissioner of public safety was aware of the mobs and attacks that were happening on the freedom rides, but he purposely got to the scene fifteen minutes late so that the mobs would still be able to make enough damage. -
JFK began to publicly support the civil rights and new civil rights legislation because of a walk- out that happened in downtown Birmingham. Hundreds of kids participated and marched and many were arrested, but they were set free the next day. Bull Connor however stopped the march by spraying the people with fire hoses and releasing dogs on the crowd. -
The 16th Street Baptist Church was a known meeting spot for civil rights meetings. This church was bombed because certain people were supportive of segregation and racist. Four young black girls were killed in the bombing because there was a last minute choir rehearsal at the church. The event started riots and resulted in the death of two more young girls. -
Martin Luther King Jr. had a speech to shine a light on the issues of segregation and racism. He spoke about the violence that was used and the unfair treatment that people had to face. It pushed the civil rights movement even farther because he educated others about the problems. This was just another thing that MLK came up with to help because he was also helping with organizations created. There were also other preachers there to back him up and help educate others. -
Medgar Evers was a very well known, high level representative of the NAACP from Mississippi. He was part of the crusade to help black voters have the freedom to vote without having to worry about being attacked. He was murdered outside his home by a gunshot and the black community was afraid and in shock. They didn’t know if they were safe or not anymore, even in their own homes. -
Marches were organized to protest the lack of voting rights with 600 marchers being involved. The marches were attacked on their way to Montgomery and it became known as ‘Bloody Sunday’. The second attempt of the marches had 2,500 people and police made them turn around and go back. The third attempt had 25,000 protesters and they successfully made it to their destination because they were being protected by troops until they got there. -
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law in 1965. It banned discrimination in local, state, and national elections and polling places. This made it possible for the black community to be able to start voting because they also banned any type of literacy test and didn’t allow physical violence or threats. -
While Nixon was running for president for his second term, five men broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate hotel and stole many documents and made a mess of the office. When Nixon found out about this incident, he tried to cover it up. When people started to find out, they started working backwards and began to link him with the crime. This made him drop out of the election because he knew that covering it up had messed up his chances of being elected.