The growing popularity of technologies like movies and the radio meant that everyone was listening to the same things, which helped create a more unified culture and distinct identity
Andrew Carnegie
Pioneered vertical integration, where one company controls every stage of the manufacturing process
Hartford Convention
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Congress wanted king George to intervene on their behalf and end the violence. He didn’t read it.
Palmer raids
Texan independence
Asiento System
System that took slaves to the New World to work for the Spanish. Required that a tax be paid to the Spanish ruler for each slave brought over.
A dispute over a French fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
Anarchists set off a bomb during a Knights of labor protest in Chicago for an 8-hour workweek. Many people began to see the labor movement as violent and radical
Thomas Gage
The new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws
NAWSA
Pequot war
Pequot tribe vs connecticut settlers. Started witht eh murder of 2 english traders. It was part of a larger dispute over trade
Big stick diplomacy
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Laws helped codify racial differneces. They wanted to prevent the growth of the free black population by banning interracial marriage. Also slavery was becoming cheaper than indentured servitude
Civil Rights Act of 1964
George Whitefield
A staunch Calvinist who began preaching outdoors in England. He moved to the colonies in 1740. In 2 years he was able to speak to over a quarter of the American population
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
Hoovervilles
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
By 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau declared that the frontier was officially settled
The British continued to kidnap american sailors. Washington sent John Jay to london to negotiate
In opposing the stamp act, the colonists said trade should be regulated instead. Parliament passed the townshend acts and began taxing imports and exports.
The division of powers between different levels of government.
Dutch Wedge
New Netherlands separated England's northern and southern colonies, until they just took it with very little resistance
They didn’t want it. Initially the revolution was a petition to get the same rights as other British citizens
A dispute over a french fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
Dred Scott case
15th amendment
Americans believed they had a God-given right to have a nation from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
First political parties
