7 years war
A dispute over a French fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
Great society
Election of 1844
Anti-Saloon league
Worked to close down saloons
Reconstruction acts
Divided the south into 5 zones under military occupation. Increased requirements for rejoining (also ratify 14th amendment and have universal suffrage)
Sneaky deal that exchanged Cherokee land in Georgia for a reservation territory west of the Mississippi River.
1920's politics
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
Rise 0f Chesapeake slavery
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
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
Wilmot Proviso
An amendment to a law in congress that stipulated that any land gained in the Mexican-American war wouldn't be ineligible for the spread of slavery. Symbolized the growing tension over westward expansion and slavery.
Indian appropriation act
Theologian and philosopher who objected to predestination and helped cause the first great awakening by preaching to large crowds
Sherman antitrust act
Made monopolizing an entire market illegal
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Removed native americans from their land and sent them to reservations west of the Mississippi river.
California and New Mexico wanted to enter the union as free states.
Henry Clay created compromise: New Mexico and Utah would vote on slavery, California would be admitted as a free state, Slavery would be banned in Washington D.C., and there would be a new fugitive slave act
Made discrimination on the basis of race, religion, or sex illegal
Ida Tarbell
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Election of 1797
First contested election in American history, won by John Adams (Washington's vice president)
Praying towns
Towns in new england where native Americans were forced to live. They we're supposed to be for their protection, but really, it was to steal their land and convert them to christianity
Attitudes towards Germany
Wanted to keep Germany weak so they wouldn't pose a threat.
Wanted to extract reparations for all the damage Germany had caused
Split from the rest of the baptist church because the northern baptists were abolitionists
Louisiana purchase
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Starting in 1865 many Americans started pushing westward again after the interruption of the civil war
Pioneered horizontal integration, where one company controls every seller in the market.
Whigs
New party led by Henry Clay. Main difference was disagreement over federal power
Mexican-American war
Disputes over the Texas border sparked the conflict. American troops made it all the way to Mexico city.
Jackson Vetos Second Bank of the U.S.
Supported by Henry Clay and created under the American system
Jay treaty
Britain agreed to abandon outposts on the western frontier. In return the U.S. would favor trade with Britian. However, the treaty failed to address the british kidnapping, and American hatred of Britian caused riots.
15th amendment
Protected voting rights of former slaves (in theory)
