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Puritens
Protestants who wished to "Purify" the Angelician Church of all Catholic rituals and traditions. -
Merchantilism
Held thata nation's power was a product of wealth and a nations wealth was measured by its stock of precious metals. -
JamesTown
The first permanent English settlers some 100 men recruited by the London Company reached virginia in the Spring of 1607. They chose a location near one of the rivers along Cheapeake Bay for the settlement, naming it Jamestown in the honor of their King. -
John Smith
An edventurous explorer, mapmaker, and a soldier as preident of the council of settlers in 1608. -
Indentured Servant
Bound for a period of years to the person who paid for his or her wa yto America. -
Pilgrims
Left England because of religious conflict -
Bacon's Rebellion
As life expectancy and immigration increased, Virginia became home to a growing a freed indentured servants. -
Glorious Revoulution
In 1688 the Protestant opposition staged a bloodless rebellion caled the Glorious Revoulution. -
Great Awakening
A serious of religious revivals. -
Enlightenment
A revolution in ideas. -
John Marshall & Judical Review
John Marshall-(September 24, 1755 – July 6, 1835) was an American jurist and statesman who shaped American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court a center of power.
Judicial Review-Judicial review is the doctrine under which legislative and executive actions are subject to review, and possible invalidation, by the judiciary. -
Sugar Act
Imposed a duty or import tax on foreign sugar such as, molasses,and several other items entering Great Britain. -
Stamp Act
Placed a tax on printed matter of all kinds such as, advertisments,diplomas,legal documents,newpapers,and playing cards. -
Quartering Act
New York's colonial assembly responded by refusing to provide money to quarter or house and supply these troops as the quarerting act. -
Townshed Act
Imported duties on such common items as tea,lead,glass,and dyes for paint. -
Boston Massacre
The boston people are run mad. Promptly denounced british aggression. -
Boston Tea Party
The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act, which had been passed by the British Parliament in 1773. Colonists objected to the Tea Act for a variety of reasons, especially because they believed that it violated their right to be taxed only by their own elected representatives. Protesters had successfully prevented the unloading of taxed tea in three other colonies, but in Boston, embattled Royal Governor Thomas Hutchinson refused to -
Articles Of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, customarily referred to as the Articles of Confederation, was the first constitution of the United States of America and specified how the national government was to operate. -
Shay's Rebellion
Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in central and western Massachusetts (mainly Springfield) from 1786 to 1787. -
Constitutional Convention
The United States Constitutional Convention[1] (also known as the Philadelphia Convention,[1] the Federal Convention,[1] or the Grand Convention at Philadelphia) took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain. -
Virigina Plan
The Virginia Plan (also known as the Randolph Plan, after its sponsor, or the Large-State Plan)[1] was a proposal by Virginia delegates, drafted by James Madison while he waited for a quorum to assemble at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. -
Great Compromise
Perhaps the greatest debate undertaken by the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 centered on how many representatives each state should have in the new government's lawmaking branch, the U.S. Congress. -
New Jersey Plan
The New Jersey Plan (also known as the Small State or Paterson Plan) was a proposal for the structure of the United States Government proposed by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention on June 15, 1787. -
Federalist/Anti Federalist
The Anti-Federalists did not want to ratify the Constitution. Basically, they argue that It gave too much power to the national government at the expense of the state governments.
The Federalist on the other hand, had answers to all of the Anti-Federalist complaints. The separation of powers into three independent branches protected the rights of the people. Each branch represents a different aspect of the people, and because all three branches are equal, no one group can assume control over an -
Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights is the name by which the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution are known -
Thomas Paine
His most influenctianl act -
John Locke
He made the natura; rightes -
Political Machines
Political parties that helped out immigrants, they were also members who who were elected o local political offices. -
Lewis and Clark
Went on an expedition to explore the new land purchsed by Thomas Jefferson known as the Louisiana Purchase. -
Thomas Jefferson,James Monroe,&Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson-Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826)[2] was the third President of the United States (1801–1809) and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) also he was the person behind the louisiana purchase.
James Monroe-Last founding father of the united states.
Louisiana Purchase- The louisiana purchase was the acquisition by the United States of America of 828,800 square miles (2,147,000 km2) of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana in 1803. -
Graft--->Kickbacks
Graft--> The aquisition of money or political power through illegal of dishonest methods. Kickbacks--> Payments of part of the earnings from a job or contact. -
HomeSteadAct/ P.R.Acts
Homestead Act--is one of two United States federal laws that gave an applicant freehold title to up to 160 acres (65 hectares or one-fourth section) of undeveloped federal land outside the original Thirteen Colonies.
P.R.Acts-- -
Political Party
A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to attain and maintain political power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions. -
Gilded Age/ social Gospel Movement
Gilded Age-- refers to the era of rapid economic and population growth in the United States during the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction eras of the late 19th century (1869-1896).
Gospel Movement--is a Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The movement applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially social justice, inequality, liquor, crime, racial tensions, slums, bad hygiene, child labor, weak labor unio -
Muckrakers
is, primarily, a reporter or writer who investigates and publishes truthful reports involving a host of social issues, broadly including crime and corruption and often involving elected officials, political leaders and influential members of business and industry. -
muckrakers
is, primarily, a reporter or writer who investigates and publishes truthful reports involving a host of social issues, broadly including crime and corruption and often involving elected officials, political leaders and influential members of business and industry. -
Andrew Carnegie/Rockefeller
Andrew--a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, entrepreneur and a major philanthropist
Rockeller--an American oil magnate. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy. In 1870, he founded the Standard Oil Company and aggressively ran it until he officially retired in 1897 -
Meat Inspection Act
substantially amended by the 1967 Wholesome Meat Act (P.L. 90-201), requires the United States Department of Agriculture to inspect all cattle, sheep, goats, and horses when slaughtered and processed into products for human consumption (21 U.S.C. 601 et seq.). Or, in short, this act made sure that meat was thoroughly inspected before reaching its consumers. The primary goals of the law are to prevent adulterated or misbranded livestock and products from being sold as food, and to ensure that mea -
Pure food & Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act of June 30, 1906 is a United States federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines.[1] The Act arose due to public education and exposés from Muckrakers such as Upton Sinclair and Samuel Hopkins Adams, social activist Florence Kelley, researcher Harvey W. Wiley, and President Theodore Roosevelt. -
Upton Sinclair "The Jungle
he Jungle is a 1906 novel written by author and journalist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to highlight the plight of the working class and to show the corruption of the American meatpacking industry during the early-20th century. The novel depicts in harsh tones poverty, absence of social programs, unpleasant living and working conditions, and hopelessness prevalent among the working class, which is contrasted with the deeply-rooted corruption on the part of those in power. -
Americanization
is the influence of the United States on the popular culture, technology, business practices, political techniques or language, of other countries. The term has been used since 1907.[1] Inside the U.S. the term most often refers to the process of acculturation by immigrants to American customs.
Critics sometimes give "Americanization" a negative connotation because they perceive as negative the far-reaching American influence in many countries, and may fear the loss of local customs and traditio -
Triangle Shintwaist Factory Fire
in New York City, New York, United States on March 25, 1911, was one of the largest industrial disasters in the history of the city of New York, causing the death of 146 garment workers, most of them women, who either died from the fire or jumped from the fatal height. -
18th Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment (Amendment XVIII) of the United States Constitution, along with the Volstead Act, which defined "intoxicating liquors" excluding those used for religious purposes and sales throughout the U.S., established Prohibition in the United States. Its ratification was certified on January 16, 1919. It was repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933, the only instance of an amendment's repeal. The Eighteenth Amendment was also unique in setting a time delay before it would tak -
Prohibition
Prohibition of alcohol, often referred to simply as prohibition, is the practice of prohibiting the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcohol and alcoholic beverages. -
Florence Kelly
was a social and political reformer from Philadelphia. Her work against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight-hour workdays[1], and children's rights[2] is widely regarded today. -
Gold Standard
is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of gold. There are distinct kinds of gold standard. First, the gold specie standard is a system in which the monetary unit is associated with circulating gold coins, or with the unit of value defined in terms of one particular circulating gold coin in conjunction with subsidiary coinage made from a lesser valuable metal. -
Progressivism
a political attitude favoring or advocating changes or reform through governmental action. Progressivism is often viewed in opposition to conservative or reactionary ideologies.
