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- drew a line of demarcation to divide the world between Spain and Portugal
- Treaty of Tordesillas
- end of French expansion in North America
- Treaty of Utrecht
- uprising occuring in 1676 that burnt down Jamestown, against Native Americans
- Bacon's Rebellion
- colonizer of Massachusetts Bay
- John Winthrop
- meeting encouraged by Britain during French and Indian War to keep Iroquois friendly
- Albany Congress
- British decree prohibiting settlement past the appalachians
- Proclamation of 1763
- items made in Britain to be taxed
- Townshend Acts
- acts to punish Boston for the tea party
- Intolerable Acts (Quebec Act, Boston Port Bill, etc)
- Patrick Henry, Sam and John Adams
- Radicals
- Locke and Rousseau
- philosophers..ideas put into Dec of Ind
- Howe, Burgoyne, St. Leger, Cornwallis
- british commanders in Rev War
- townships six miles square would be surveyed
- Land Ordinance of 1785
- farmers rebellion 1786 against foreclosure of farms
- Shay's Rebellion
- divided the Northwest territory and provided steps for territories to become states
- Northwest Ordinance 1787
- attempts to revise AOC
- Alexandria and Annapolis Conferences
- large state plan for a bicamerical leg. based on population
- Virginia Plan
- small state plan for unicameral leg and equal rep.
- New Jersey Plan
- compromise dealing with state rep. in congress
- Great (CT) Compromise
- compromise for countin slaves for rep. in congress
- 3/5 compromise
- Washington, Hamilton, Madison and Franklin were this political party
- Federalists (Federalist No. 10)
- Henry, Hancock and Mason were this party
- Antifederalists
- political system were power is divided between the central govt and states
- Federalism
- amendment giving citizesns protection of rights not mentioned
- 9th amend
- amendment reserving to the states and people rights not delegated by const
- 10th amend
- major features of Hamilton's..discouraged international competition, pay off debts,develop manufacturing, national bank
- Tariff of 1789, Report on Public Credit, Report on Manufactures, BUS
- southerners agree to support Hamilton if capitol is moved to South
- Assumption Bill
- defenders of the bank cite this interpretation of the consitution
- loose interpration
- washingtons warning not to enter with european powers during the French Rev
- Neutrality Proclamation
- British agree to remove forts in American W.
- Jay Treaty 1794
- treaty opoens up lower Mississippi from Spain
- Pinckney Treaty
- farmers refuse to pay excise tax under washington
- Whiskey Rebellion
- 3 US commissioners try to negotiate with france with shady dealings
- XYZ affair (Adams)
- series of acts passed under Adams to silence dem-rep opposition
- Alien and Sedition Acts
- theory of government supporting states rights
- compact theory
- movement favoring strict interp, agrarian society, french support,under who? party?
- Dem Reps, Jeff
- loose interp, capitalists, industry, britain under who? party?
- Feds, Hamilton
- Jefferson's purchase of LA and land west of Mississippi
- LA purchase 1803
- Essex decision, Leopard-Chesapeake Incident, Berlin Decree
- 1800's..war of 1812?
- Embargo Act, Nonintercourse Act, Macons Bill
- Jeff sought to punish Brtish and French
- court case: judicial review
- Marbury vs. Madison
- court cases: federal over states rights
- Fletcher vs. Peck, Martin v. Hunter's Lessee, Darmouth vs. Woodward, Cohens vs. VA
- court case: national bank
- McCulloch vs. MD
- court case: interstate trade
- Gibbons vs. Ogden
- US buys florida (treaty)
- Adams-Onis Treaty
- Mexico loses northern territory (treaty)
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- US buys strip from Mexico for RR
- Gadsden Purchase
- guys who wanted the War of 1812
- war hawks (Calhoun and Clay)
- treaty ending war of 1812
- Treaty of Ghent
- demilitarize great lakes after war of 1812 (treaty)
- Rush-Bagot Treaty
- court case: marshall courts indian rulings against and for indians
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Cherokee Nation vs. Ga
Worcester vs. Ga - treaty w/ britain about boundary of maine and canada, surpress slaves
- Webster-Ashburton Treaty
- clay's plan to protect industry, facilitiate credit and currency
- American System
- decade of Dem Rep rule after war of 1812
- era of good feelings
- adams becomes president with clay as sec of state
- corrupt bargain
- jackson and van burens years in office
- Age of Reform
- jackson's informal advisors
- kitchen cabinet
- jackson vetoed this contruction plan
- Maysville road
- 2nd great awakening guy
- Finney
- amendment: universal male suffrage
- 14th
- abolitionist who wrote the Liberator
- william l. garrison
- Shakers, Oneida community, haromists, amana colony, brook farm
- utopian societies
- calhoun's nullification paper
- SC exposition
- VA, KY resolutions, Hartford Conv, SC Expos, null
- compact theory
- Texas vs. White, Marshall Ct, Locke
- Contract theory
- debate over nullification in the senate
- webster-hayne debate
- california free state, fugitive slave law, UT, NM, no slaves in DC
- Compromise of 1850
- douglas's plan that slavery would be settled thru pop sov
- KS NE act
- proslavery leg. accepted by Buchanan..KS would enter slave state
- Lecompton Const
- john browns crazy slave thing
- Harper's Ferry
- ky senators last attempt to compromise back to the miss. comp before civil war breaks out
- Crittenden Comp
- Union warship seized british ship with confed diplomats on it
- trent affair
- civil war battle=emanc proc
- Antietam
- border states during war that had slaves but didnt secede
- md, mo, ky, de
- union turning point in civil war
- Gettysburg
- site of treaty ending civil war
- appomattox ct house
- high protective tariff after war & high education
- Morill Tariff and Land Grant Act
- development of west after Civ
- Homestead Act
- estab after civ war to help blacks and poor whites get food and med care, farmland
- Freedmen's bureau
- radical republican(sumner) supported punitive reconstruction bill
- Wade-Davis bill
- nations first black congressman
- Hiram Revels
- congress passed after civil war, illegal to use force to disenfranchising citizens
- Force Act
- Credit Mobilier and Whiskey Ring, Tweed Ring, Gould and Fisk
- Grant admint corruption 1868-ish
- rr leg. in 1860s
- pacific rr act
- guy for vert int
- Carnegie
- hor and vert int, holding co
- Rocky
- creates US Steel
- JP Morgan
- clause that suppresses labor unions
- 'due process'
- spencer and sumner
- social darwinism
- author 'it is your duty to get rich acres of diamonds'
- russell conwell
- Bellamy, George, Lloyd
- journalists
- IWW under...
- big bill haywood
- B & O strike, Hayes calls in army
- RR strike 1877
- carnegie steel strike
- Homestead Strike (1890s
- american railway strike under socialist debs, cleveland sends in troops
- Pullman Strike 1890s
- act cited in supressing unions
- Sherman antitrust
- this shop gives workers a choice to join union
- open shop
- no choice but to join union
- closed shop
- president 1868-1876
- Grant
- president 1912
- Wilson
- "do little" gov't presidents between 1868-1912
- Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Harrison
- president who came in after lots of corruption..tried honesty, limited chinese immigration
- Hayes
- election reflected division between stalwarts and halfbreeds
- Garfield
- president who said he was a stalwart but changed his mind and supported the Pendleton Civil Service Act
- Arthur
- president w/ the billion dollar congress
- Harrison
- legislation under billion dollar congress
- McKinley Tariff, Sherman Silver Purchase Act, Sherman Anti-trust, Wilson-Gormon (inc. tariff)
- financial panic that led to the silver issue
- Panic of 1873
- 1892 Greenback/Populist candidate
- James Weaver
- congress stopped coinage of silver
- Crime of '73
- compromise allowing the limited coinin of silver at a ratio
- Bland-Allison Act
- Farmer's Alliance girl 'raise less corn and more hell'
- Mary Elizabeth Lease
- court case: states could regulate RRs
- Munn vs. Illinois
- cc: states can establish interstate regulations
- Peik v. Chicago & NW RR
- cc: reversal of Peik case, commerce under authority of federal govt
- Illinois vs. Wabash
- act that required reasonable shipping rates and elimation of rr abuses
- Inerstate Commerce Act (1886)
- populist platform name
- Omaha Platform
- organized march of the unemployed to DC
- Jacob Coxey
- running vp under Bryan (populist)
- Tom Watson
- helped run McKinley's gold campaign
- Mark Hanna
- supporters of clevelands pro-gold campaign
- gold bugs
- Sioux wipe out Custer in 1876
- Battle of Little Big Horn
- us wipe out the sioux
- Battle of Wounded Knee
- term for making native americans like christian americans
- assimilation
- indian plan- give them plots of land and citizenship and try to be civilized
- Dawes-Severalty act
- theorists about american imperalism
- Hobson, Lenin, Luxemburg, Schumpeter
- Mckinley's sec of state for chinese open door
- John Hay
- year the frontier was closed
- 1890
- navy guy who wanted acquisition of colonies, top navy, imperialism
- Alfred Mahan (Influence of sea power upon history)
- reverend who called for civilizing lesser cultures
- Josiah Strong
- the politics of reality
- realpolitik
- bryan twain and carnegie formed this against expnasionism
- anti-imperialist league
- treaty ending the russo-japanese war
- Treaty of Portsmouth
- agreement where us got phillipines and japan got korea
- Taft-Katsura Agreement
- agreement to preserve chinese independce, support open door, and for US and japanese to get along
- Root-Takahira Agreement
- chinese group that tried to drive out foreigners in 1900
- boxers
- us will take cuba by force if spain doesnt agree, under Pierce
- Ostend Manifesto
- journalism during span-am war
- Yellow Press (Hearst and Pulitzer)
- 2 things that spurred span am war
- delome letter, sinking of the maine
- amendment saying cubans would be granted autonomy once spain is defeated
- Teller
- american commander in spanam war
- George Dewey
- amendment saying us will intervene in cuban affairs
- Platt
- act providing puerto ricco with political autonomy, to an extent
- Foraker Act
- rights privilieges given to US not apply to overseas territories
- Insular cases
- spanam war helped him be reelected
- McKinley
- dollar diplomacy pres
- Taft
- am occupies these southern countries
- cuba, dr, haiti, nicaragua, mexico, colombia
- these acts same name, gave rights to filipinos and puerto ricans in 1916-7
- jones act
- presidents under progressive era
- TR, Taft, Wilson
- Fair deal
- Truman
- New Frontier
- JFK
- middle class reformers during early 1900s
- progressives
- leader of progressive movement, relgion and socialism
- Rauschenbusch
- photographer muckraker
- Jacob Riis
- oil muckraker
- Ida Tarbell
- author exposing corrupt californians
- Norris, The Octopus
- muckraker, municipal corruption
- Lincoln Steffens
- ran courrpt dem. party machine in KS City
- Pendergast
- corruption reform: league to help city govtsq
- National Municipal League
- progressive WI senator
- La Follette
- group and man that went on strike in 1902, fdr threatens army but negotiates instead
- United Mine Workers, Mitchell
- act strengthening interstate commerce act, RR stuff
- Elkins Act, Hepburn Act, Mann-elkins act
- corrupt rr monopoly dissolved under TR
- Northern Sec. Co
- dept. of agr. under tr
- Pinchot
- corps dissolved by Taft
- Tobacco, Standard Oil
- high tariff under conservative taft
- Payne-Aldrich
- agr. controversy under taft
- ballinger-pinchot (also speaker of the house, antitrust us steel)
- 1912 candidates
- tr (bullmoose) taft (rep) wilson (dem) debs (socialist)
- 1913 tariff- first reduction in 50 years
- Underwood Tariff (Wilson)
- 1914 act to brekak up monopolies
- Clayton Anti-trust (Duplex v. Deering)
- 1914 created to control trusts and monopolies
- FTC
- 1913 - national bank leg
- Fed Reserve Act
- maximum hour leg under wilson
- Adamson 8 Hour Act
- child lab act ruled unconst by (Hammer v. Dagenhart)
- Keating-Owen
- cc: invalidates limited night work hours
- Lochner vs. NY
- cc: upholds law limited work hours for women workers
- Muller vs. OR
- cc: maximum 10 hour workday for women unconstitutional!
- Adkins vs. Kids Hospital
- black created tuskegee institute
- Booker T
- Niagara Movement
- Du Bois
- black- Universal Negro Improvement Assoc, Africa
- Garvey
- Triple Alliance/central powers
- Germany, Austria, Ottomoan
- triple entente/allies
- britain, france, russia, us, jap, it
- lusitania and sussex
- pre WWI boats
- german wont sink passenger boats
- sussex pledge
- initial us response to german sinkings
- armed neutrality
- german deal w/ mex that pisses off us before wwI
- zimmerman note
- 2 major causes of us involvement in ww1
- zimmerman note & russian rev
- wwI act that fined people who helped the enemy
- espionage act
- cc: consitutionality of espionage act, ww I (dissuading draftees)
- schenck vs. US
- act criminal to discourage war bon sales
- sedition act
- led by baruch, wwI thing
- War Industries Board
- hoover, to mobilize agr in wwI
- Lever Act
- wwI board to prevent labor problems
- War Labor Board
- Big Four
- clemenceau, orlando, george, wilson
- wilsons shit
- league of nations, 14 pts
- irreconcilable Rep after WWI
- Henry Cabot Lodge
- plan to reduce germanays reparations after wwI
- dawes plan, young plan
- 1920 act selling ships to private people
- Jones Merchant Marine
- act- control of rr returned to private companies 1920
- Esch-Cummins act
- plan where govt would purchase the rrs
- Plumb Plan
- tax plan to reduce govt spenidng and protect industry in 1920s
- mellon tax plan
- 1920s tariff- high tariffs on imports
- fordney mccumber tariff
- hardings corruption scandal, us oil reserves
- Teapot Dome
- bill that would let govt purchase crops to maintain prices (coolidge)
- McNary-Haugen bill
- act enforcing prohibition
- Volstead Act
- attys against each other in scopes
- bryan and darrow
- johnson, toomer, cullen, hughes
- harlem ren
- raids of atty generals house yr)
- palmer raids 1919
- trial over italian anarchists
- sacco vanzetti
- group trying to limit foreing inflence
- 100%ers
- nativist acts
- literacy test, emergency quota (s & e imm, 1920s) immigartion, chinese exclusion
- conservative presidents 1920s and 30s
- harding, coolidge, hoover
- highest protective tariff in nationals history
- Hawley-Smoot tariff
- hoovers attempt to solve depression
- reconstruction finance corp, fed home loan act
- during depression, demand war money
- bonus army
- smart people in FDRS cabinet
- brain trust
- FDR- act forbids banks from speculation, FDIC
- glass-steagall act
- called for old age pension plan during New Deal
- Townsend
- cc: court invalidates NIRA
- schechter poultry corp vs. us
- cc: court invalidates AAA
- butler vs. us
- first woman with cabinet- sec of labor under FDR
- frances perkins
- area bad boy hitler occupied prior to ww11
- rhine valley
- conference where hitler gets czece (rhineland)
- munich conference
- german invasion of this country lead france and britan to declar ww II
- poland
- italy had invaded this country before wwII
- ethiopia
- this 2 crazy ass countries actually signed a nonagression pact in 1939
- soviet union and germany
- authoritarin, antidemocratic ec and polit system- italy and germany were examples
- fascism
- system requiring obedience to the leader, germany and soviet union were examples
- totalitarianism
- polit system where citizens have basic rights (great britan, US)
- democratic-republicanism
- social, political, ec system with private ownership controlled by state, soviet union
- communism
- American brigade supporting spanish republican government in spanish civil war
- abraham lincoln brigade
- side that hitler and mussolini supported in spanish civil war
- fascist general Francisco Franco
- FDR's stance during spanish civil war
- supports loyalists, but cant sent anything cuz of neutrality act of 1937
- japans pre wwII dream to have its own asian empire
- co-prosperity sphere
- japans puppet government in manchuria 1931
- manchukuo
- wwII doctrone that US would not recognize japan's manchukuo in china, will adhere to 9 power treaty
- Stimson Doctrine
- US gunboat sunk by japanese planes
- Panay
- Axis Powers
- Japan, Germany, Italy
- FDRS policies before entering WWII
- cash and carry, lend lease, destroyers for bases, draft
- FDRS 4 freedoms
- freedom from want and fear, freedom of speech and religion
- churchill and fdr secret meeting declaring 2 nations similar goals that contradicted with axis powers
- Atlantic Charter
- FDR plan to ensure black fair treatment in economy
- Fair Employment Practices Committee
- this president desegregated the military finally
- Truman
- court cases that charged german concentration camp people with crimes against humanity
- Nuremberg war crimes trial
- post wwII conferences..ummm...
- casablanca, teheran, yalta, potsdam
- president that took over when FDR died in 1945
- Truman
- big legislature for highway development under eisenhower
- Interstate Highway Act 1956
- Servicemen's Readjustment Act that help with loans and schools nickname
- GI Bill
- this program during and after wwII kept inflation levels down
- Office of Price Admin
- name for states like florida texas and california settled in the '50s
- sunbelt
- development contractor in the '50s who massproduced lowpriced family homes (Long Island)
- William Levitt, Levittown
- act that passed over trumans veto that was very anti-labor unions
- Taft-Hartley Act