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Jamestown
were people settled from england to get away to start a new colony -
House of burgesses
-first legislative assembly
established by the Virginia Company -
Start of slavery
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Mayflower compact
-where they agreed to obey laws created for the general good.
-created a covenant community -
French and Indian war
-(1754-1763) England and American colonists fought between the French and Indians for land west of the Appalachian mountains and in Cananda. -
Treaty of Paris
England gained land west of the Apps. mountains from the french. -
Proclamation of 1763
England prohibited colonists from settling west of the App. mountains.
-Why?-it cost a lot to protect colonists from the indian attacks -
Stamp Act
-The stamp act put taxes on legal documents. -
Boston Massacare
-colonists and soldiers competed for jobs
-5 colonists got killed -
Boston Tea Party
-England put restrictions on tea and colonist got upset and trew all tea in the Boston Harbor -
1st continental congress
a convention of deligates from 12 states except georgia -
Lexington and Concord
first military engagements of the revolutionarey war -
2nd continental congress
The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 -
Declaration of Independence
when america got there independence from britain -
Articles of the confederation
was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution. -
Yorktown
The town is most famous as the site of the siege and subsequent surrender of General Cornwallis to General George Washington, and the French Fleet during the American Revolutionary War -
The treaty of Paris
ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America -
Critical Period
when the u.s. was under the Articles of the confederation. -
Land ordinance of 1785
raise money through the sale of land in the largely unmapped territory west of the original states acquired after the end of the Revolutionary War -
annapolis convention
called to settle diputes among the states
only 5 states show up -
shays Rebellion
debt ridden farmes rebelled againts higher taxes -
constitutional convention
to address problems in governing the United States of America -
the Great Compromise
created 2 houses- senate and the house of representatives -
land ordinance of 1787
provided the process for the creation and admission of new views -
Judiciary Act of 1787
set up the governments court system -
3/5s compromise
where slaves counted 3/5ths of a person when determining a states representation -
Washingtons Presidency
significant leadership role
An excellent delegator and judge of talent and character -
Bill of Rights signed
1st 10 amandments to the constitution.
delt with rights/liberties -
Cotton Gin
inventor-eli whitney
made cotton growing very profitable
increased slavery -
Adams Presidency
federalist
defeated Thomas Jefferson -
Gabe Prosser Revolt
Richmond,va -
Jeffersons Presidency
1st peacefull transfer from one political party to another -
Marbury & Madison
established judical review -
Louisiana Purchase
Jefferson bought the land from the french and then had lewis and clark explore it
It doubled the lnd of the US at that time. -
War of 1812
Causes- British interference with american ships -
Missouri Compromise
Divided LA purchase at 36,30'
Line of free and slave states
maine-free
missouri-slave -
McCulloch vs. Maryland
estblished the doctrine of implied powers
showe the court could meditate between state and federal government -
Gibbons vs. Ogden
confermed the federal governments power over commerce -
Monroe Doctrine
warned Europe agignst future colonization in the americas -
Jackson's Presidency
Brought the Spoils System about
Not very loved -
age of the common man
time when democracy in the US expanded and more people got involved in the electoral process -
Indian romoval act of 1830
forced all indians to move westward of the Mississippi river. -
Nat Turner revolt
Southampton, va
led band of 80 slaves against 4 plantations
was caught and hung -
Battle of the Alamo
Alamo- old mission house
Texans fortified themselves there -
Battle of San Jacinto
Texans won their independence
established rebuplic of texas -
US Annexes Texas
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Mexican War
Pres. James K Polk wanted the southwest
US defeated Mexico easily -
Dred Scot case
Dred Scot a slave sued for freedom after being taken into free territory by his owner -
Seneca Falls convention
early and influential women's rights convention -
CA gold rush
All told, the news of gold brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad
49ers -
Fugitive Slave law
was one of the most controversial acts of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a "slave power conspiracy". -
Compromise of 1850
defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories -
Uncle Toms Cabin
Written be Harriet Beecher Stowe
Portrayed the evils of slavery
supported north for aboliition -
Kansas-Nebraska act
opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery within each territory. -
Election of 1860
Main issue: slavery
Lincoln, A republican won -
Battle of Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter was in South Carolina but remained under union control
Confederate fired on Union ships that were there to resupply Fort Sumter
1st battle of the civil war -
homestead Act
-law thet gave free public land in the west in 160 acre plots, only condition though settlers had to use it for atleas 5 years
-to encourage americans to settle west -
Battle of Antietam
Was also known as "Battle of Sharpsburg
was first major battle of the American Civil war on Union soil -
Emancipation Proclacmation
issued by President Lincoln
it proclamed freedom the the slaves in the states that had rebelled -
Battle of Vicksburg
was the final major military action of the Civil War -
Battle of Gettysburg
Confederate v. Union
was a Turning point
Stopped Lee's invasion of the north -
Knights of Labor
-founder-Uriah Stevens
-promoted the social and cultural uplift of the workingman -
Old immigrants
-Northern and western europe
-Germany, great britain, Ireland, Norway, and Sweden -
Haymarket Square
-K. of L. protest in chicago
- bomb went off near police and 8 strikers convicted -
New immigrants
-Southern and eastern europe
-Italy, Greece, Poland, Russia, Hungary, Yugoslavia -
Reservation System
-indians were forced off their lands onto smaller and smaller reservations -
Chinese Exclusion Act
- the us told the chinese no more immigrants
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Assimilation Policy
-plan under which indians would be forced to adopt american culture -
American Federation of Labor
-Founder- Samual Gompers
-craft unions- only skilled workers from multiple industries
-used collective bargining- unions and employers negotitable -
Dawes Act
-Americanize the indians -
Sherman Antitrust Act
-prevented and business structure that restrained trade
-outlaw trusts
-failed -
Homestead Strike
-at carnegie steel plant
-major gun battle
-plant manager Henery Frick called pinkerton Detective Agency -
American Railway Union
-founder-Eugene V. Debs
industrial union: skilled and unskilled workers -
Pullman Strike
-started nationwide RR boycott
-by Pullman railroad workers -
Treaty of Paris
-U.S. annexed Puerto Rico, Guam, Phillippines
-Cuba became free -
Spanish-American war
-Cuban rebelled against spanish rule -
Boxer Rebellion
-by chinese boxers
-to remove foreign influence
-it failed -
progressive movement
-used the government to institute reforms to fix problems caused by industrialization -
Muckraker
-writers that exposed problems and corruption -
Platt amendment
-U.S. asserted the right to intervene in Cuban affairs -
Square Deal
-Theodore Roosevelt's
-trust busting, workers rights, RR regulation, food and health -
Roosevelts corollary
-TR added to the Monroe Doctrine
-reminded europe not to interfere
-US would use force to protect its interests in latin america -
panama canal
-Teddy R encouraged panama to brek from columbia
-they secceded
panama gave US rights to to build a canal
-canal finished 1914
-connected atlantic and pacific -
Recall
-voters can remove officials -
initiative
- voters propose laws
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Referendum
-voters must approve bills of the state legislature -
17 amendment
-voter elect senators now (not state leg.) -
WW1
-also called great war
-was the fifth-deadliest conflict in world history
-many nations involved -
Clayton Antitrust Act
-expands shermans
-outlaw price fixing -
US enters WW1
-Zimmerman conflict
-Wilson opposed involvement but he had no choice since germanys submarine warfare against US -
14 points
-statement by Woodrow Wilson that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe -
18 amendment
-prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring the production, transport and sale of (though not the consumption or private possession of) alcohol illegal -
Treaty of Versailles
-one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I
-ended between germany and allied powers -
great migration
- movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that lasted up until the 1960s
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Open Door Policy
- By secretary of state John Hay
- gave all nations equal trading rihts in china -called for fair competition -ended US/ european competition -uraged foreigners to obey chinese laws
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19 amendment
-women gain right to vote -
Harlem renaissance
- cultural movement -New Negro Movement
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immigration restriction act
-united states federal law restrited immigrants to enter the u.s. -
Scopes Trial
-The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes
-referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial
-John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school -
Speculation
-practice of taking risky transactions -
buying the margin
-people who used borrowed money to buy stock, driving prices too high -
Great Depression
-time of servere economic hardship in the us from 1929-1941
-the stock market crash started the great depression -
Black Tuesday
-when the stock market crashed
-start of great depression -
Hawley-smoot Tariff act
-after WW1, the us kept out foreign products with high tariffs
-led to a strangling of world trade
