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| The first American party. North |
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| A country that is both democratic and republic. South |
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| Washington's Farewell Address |
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| Avoid political parties. Stay neutral. |
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| President Washington lead soldiers to enforce our nation's law. |
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| Cause of the war of 1812 that involved British capturing our ships and sailors. |
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| Made cotton the cash crop of the south. Made the south want more slaves. |
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| Marbury v.Madison/Judicial Review |
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| Established the right of Judicial Review for Supreme Court |
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| Gold was found in California and everyone rushed there to make money. |
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| The first technology that allowed instant communication across great distance. |
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| Created the first American English dictionary. |
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| A movement to abolish slavery in America |
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| Forced the 5 civilized tribes of the Southeast to move West |
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| Dorothea Dix/Prison Reform |
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Discovered that mentally ill people were being tortured in U.S. Prisons
Wanted hospitals for mentally ill patients |
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| Moved West to Salt Lake City, Utah to escape judgement of their religion. |
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| Land we got from Mexico after the Mexican-American war (California, Nevada, Utah, part of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming) |
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| Opposed expansion of slavery. Radicals. Conservatives. Founded in the 1850s |
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| Dred Scott sued for his freedom because his owner had taken him to a free territory. Ruled slaves as property |
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| Bloodiest battle in the history of the US. The turning point in the war, the south started losing and the north started winning. |
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| Navy blockade, Mississippi river, Caprute Richmond |
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| Granted citizenship and "due process of law" to slaves |
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| Grave freed men the right to vote. |
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| White northerners who came South to get rich after the Civil War. |
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| was a career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War. |
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| 10% plan would grant easy retry to southern states. |
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| Transcontinental Railroad/Promontory Point |
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| Railroads that reach coast to coast. |
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| 160 acres of free land in the west if it could be made productive after 5 years |
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| Established A&M and A&T colleges |
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| Invented to fence off the plains, created controversy and range wars. |
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| Helen Hunt Jackson/A Century of Dishonor |
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| Which described the nation's abuse of the Indians |
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| A series of small wars between Indians and the government. The Indians were fighting for their culture. |
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| The time period where workers were being taken advantage of by their employers. Mark Twain gave this time period it's name. |
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| A company that controls an entire market. |
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| Light Bulb’s Impact on Industry |
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| Workers could work longer periods of time. |
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| political position of demanding a favored status for certain established inhabitants of a nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants |
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| Regulated laws in the work places |
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| Opened doors to European immigrants |
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| a powerful 19th century American businessman |
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| Machines used to vote for politics |
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| The Influence of Sea Power Upon History/Alfred T. Mahan |
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| is a history of naval warfare written in 1890 by Alfred Thayer Mahan. It details the role of sea power throughout history and discusses the various factors needed to support and achieve sea power, with emphasis on having the largest and most powerful fleet |
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| Sent to protect U.S. interests during the Cuban revolt against Spain, she exploded suddenly without warning and sank quickly, killing nearly three quarters of her crew. The cause and responsibility for her sinking remained unclear after a board of inquiry. |
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| Status of Cuba after the Spanish-American War |
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| Major General Brooke was appointed Governor-General of Cuba after the withdrawal of the Spanish army. |
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| He met with three annexationists from Hawaii: Lorrin Thurston, Francis March Hatch and William Ansel Kinney. After negotiations, in June 1897, Secretary of State John Sherman agreed to a treaty of annexation with these representatives of the Republic of Hawaii |
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| is a 48-mile (77.1 km) ship canal in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean (via the Caribbean Sea) to the Pacific Ocean. |
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| is a concept in foreign affairs, which usually refers to the policy in 1899 allowing multiple Imperial powers access to China, with none of them in control of that country |
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| Annexation of Alaska/Seward’s Folly |
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| Purchase was the acquisition of the Alaska territory by the United States from the Russian Empire in the year 1867 by a treaty ratified by the Senate. |
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| Social Darwinism/Scientific Racism |
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| the use of pseudoscientific techniques and hypotheses to sanction the belief in racism, racial inferiority, or racial superiority, or alternatively the claim of "classifying" individuals of different phenotypes into discrete races or ethnicity |
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| Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire |
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| was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York and resulted in the fourth highest loss of life from an industrial accident in U.S. history. |
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| reform-minded journalists who wrote largely for popular magazines, continued a tradition of investigative journalism reporting, and emerged in the United States after 1900 and continued to be influential until World War I, when through a combination of advertising boycotts, dirty tricks and patriotism |
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| state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states |
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| a manufacturing process (most of the time called a progressive assembly) in which parts (usually interchangeable parts) are added to a product in a sequential manner to create a finished product much faster than with handcrafting-type methods. |
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| The illegalization of any types of consumable alcohol |
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| upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal. |
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| an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 |
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| was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to Republican presidents. He was the dominant leader in the African-American community in the United States from 1890 to 1915 |
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| 4 Long-Term Causes of WWI |
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1. The alliances between the European countries, all the way from late 1800s to early 1900s
2. Militarism
3. Imperialism and Socialism Darwinism
4. Nationalism |
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| was a British ocean liner, holder of the Blue Riband and briefly the world's biggest ship. |
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| Russian and Bolshevik Revolutions |
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| the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Russian SFSR. |
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| Was the first woman in the United States Congress. Only person in congress to vote against WWI and WWII |
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| authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through conscription. |
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| the controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, or services. |
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| reflected a trend toward industrialism and the application of mass production methods to weapons and to the technology of warfare in general |
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| encompassed war aims as forwarded by Wilson, and a general guideline for a post-war order and frontiers. The address was intended to assure the country, and the world, that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe |
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| Causes of the Stock Market Crash of 1929 |
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| buying on the margin, buying and selling stock quickly |
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| Many dust storm in the midwest |
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| Black musicians played it. |
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| Shanty towns that popped up while Hoover was president |
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| Made private business deals not have taxes |
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| High school teacher was charged for teaching evolution in school |
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| Negative Impacts of Prohibition |
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| caused organized crime, bootlegging, and death |
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| Relief, Recover, and Reform Programs (New Deal |
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| Relief for the poor. Recovery of the economy. Reform of the |
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| FDR's way of communicating with the public in a calming fashion |
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| Political tensions. Germany attacking other nations |
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| Why did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor? |
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| Germany and the Soviets fought over Stalingrad. |
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| Us Navy beats the Japanese Navy when they attacked the Midway Atoll |
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| Invasion of Normandy (D-Day) |
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| When the US invaded the beaches of Normandy |
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| Supreme court case about Japanese Americans being put in internment camps during WWII |
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| Suburban towns made up of cookie cutter Levitt houses |
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| The Soviet's put missiles in Cuba facing the US |
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| What the government used to comfort kids in the event of a nuclear attack |
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| A mix of a city and the country side |
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| Wisconsin senator that accused people of being Communists |
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| Black, non-violent civil rights movement statue. |
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| Black, violent civil rights movement statue. |
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| Concert in NY. thousands of hippies anti-war |
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| Us policy of keeping communism in the east |
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| Anti-war protesting students are shot at and several are killed and hurt |
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| Nixon attempts to cover up the break in at the Watergate building |
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| 52 Americans were taken hostage when a group of Islamist students and militants take over the US embassy building |
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| Reaganomics/Trickle-Down Theory |
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| Theory that helping the rich out will eventually help out the poor |
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| Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe |
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| were the revolutions which overthrew the communist states in various Central and Eastern European countries.The events began in Poland in 1989 |
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| Cause of the Persian Gulf War |
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| was a war waged by a U.N.-authorized Coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. |
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| is an agreement signed by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. |
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| Widespread ethnic cleansing accompanied the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992–1995), Large numbers of Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) and Bosnian Croats were forced to flee their homes and were expelled by Bosnian Serbs;[1] and Bosnian Croats also carried out similar campaign against Bosnians and Serbs |
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| Somalia/Operation Restore Hope |
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| was an American-led, United Nations-sanctioned multinational force which operated in Somalia between 5 December 1992 – 4 May 1993. |
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| Reasons the US was targeted by Islamic extremists on 9-11 |
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| Our dealings in Mideastern problems |
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