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First permanent settlement in North America
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First elected assembly in the New World
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England acknowledged American Independence
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It was invented by Eli Whitley. It made cotton-growing very profitable.
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It was a meeting of reprensentation from all 13 colonies except Georgia. It was the first time almost all 13 colonies acted together.
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The British troops attacked a colonial weapons stockpile. It was the first skirmish of the war.
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It created the cositutional army. It ssued the "Olive Branch Petition"
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Marshall declared a law uncostitutional. The case established the power of judicial review.
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Thomas Jefferson brought this land from France. It doubled the size of the US.
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Northern and Eastern Europe. The old immigrants consisted of people from Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, and Sweden.
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Marshall upheld the federal government's right to establish a bank. The case said a state couldn't tax the bank due to supremacy. It establish the doctrine of implied powers.
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It divided the LA Purchase at 36,30. It maintained the balance of slave and free states.
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The Court overturned a steamboat monopoly. The case confirmed the federal government's power over commerce.
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forced all Indians east of the Mississipi River to move to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma)
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He led a band of 80 slaves against four plantations.
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The texans won independence. It established the Republic of Texas.
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First women's right convention and issued the Seneca Falls Declaration
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The Indians were firced off their lands onto smaller and smaller reservations.
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made it easier to catch runaway slaves
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This book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It portrayed the evils of slavery. It also increased support in the North for abolition.
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Repealed the Missouri Compromise by giving KN and NB popular sovereignty
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A slave named Dred Scot sued for freedom after being taken into free territory by his owner.
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The main issue of the election was slavery. Abraham Lincoln won.
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This was the first battle of the Civil War.
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Lee went North and lost. The effect of this war was Abraham Lincol issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
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The definition of the act is a law that gave free public land in the West in 160 acre plots. The only condition would be they would have to live on the plot for 5 years.
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The proclamation freed all slaves in the "rebelling" states.
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This battle cut the confederacy in half.
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This was was considered the turning point of the war. Lee pushed North into Pennsylvania and had to retreat in result.
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A short speech by Abraham Lincoln dedicating the cemetery. The U.S. was one nation, not separate states.
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This admendment abolished slavery.
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Lee surrendered. He then urgered Southerners to accept surrender and unite as Americans.
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Abraham Lincoln was assassinated shortly after the war by John Wilkes Booth.
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The South was put under military occupation.
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This amendment gave voting rights to African Americans.
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A union group founded by Uriah Stevens.
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These laws established separate facilitles for blacks and whites.
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Southern and Eastern Europe. The immigrants included people from Italy, Greece, Poland, Russia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, China, and Japan.
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The definition of this policy is a plan under which Indians would be forced to adopt the American culture
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This banned the entry of almost all asians.
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It was founded by Samuel Gompers. It consisted of The Craft Union. The Craft union was made up of skilled workers from many industries. They used collective bargaining.
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This was a union action. The Knights of Labor protested in Chicago. A bomb went off near the police. Eight strikers were convicted.
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The goal of this act was to americanize Indians. It broke up reservations and divided them into individual plots. It also legally abolished tribes.
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It was an early 20th century reform movement. it used the goverment to institute reforms to fix problems caused by industrialization.
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It was held at the Carnegie Steel Plant. The plant manager Henry Frick called the Pinkerton Detective Agency. It was a major gun battle.
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Eugene V. Debs was the founder. It was made up of railroad workers. It was form of union called Industrial Union which is made up of skilled and unskilled workers.
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This was a strike by the Pullman railroad workers. It started a nationwide railroad boycott. The federal government ended it.
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S.C said "separate but equal" did not violate the 14 amendment. The case upheld Jim Crow laws of segregation.
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The Cubans rebelled against the Spanish rule. The US went to war with Spain because the US had business interest in Cuba, yellow journalists, the de Lome Letter, and the American ship USS Maine exploded outside of Cuba.
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US annexed Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Phillipines. Cuba became free.
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It was created by the Chinese "Boxers". The goal was ro remove foreign influence. However, it failed.
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The US asserted the right to intervene in Cuban Affairs.
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Theodore Roosevelt added this to the Monroe Doctrine. It reminded Europe not to interfere and said the US would use force to protect its interst in Latin America.
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This allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States Census
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Voters elect Senators now, not state legislatures.
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Theodore Roosevelt encouraged Panama to break from Colombia. Panama suceeded and gave the US rights to build a canal.
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It creates FTC and investigates business practices.
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This expands the Sherman Antitrust Act. It outlaws price-fixing. Also, it exempts unions from the Sherman Act.
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The US enters the war for three reasons. The three reasons were German submarine warfare, the Zimmerman Telegram, and the US had close ties to Great Britain.
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Woodrow Wilson created this peace plan with a goal of ending the causes of war.
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The treaty consists of the punishment of Germany, Mandates, national boundaries being redrawn, and League of Nations.
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This amendment abolishes the use of alcohol.
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She was a strong leader in the Women's Suffrage Movement.
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It put a quota on how many immigrants could come from each country. It allowed more from "old immigrants" and less of the "new immigrants". The effect of this act was it basically ended immigration for several decades.
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A teacher was being tried for teaching evoluntion. The trial sparked a nationall debate over evolution.
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This amendment prohibited states from denying equal rights to any American. It gave citizenship to blacks.
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This election was between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden. Hayes was a republican and Tilden was a democratic.
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This act prevented "any business structure that restrained trade. The goal was to outlaw trusts or monopolies.
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This prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. Women gain the right to vote.
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It was created by the Seceretary of State John Hay. It gave all nations equal trading rights in China. The goal was to end the US/European competition
