The American Experiment
Meeting held in New York City, in October 1765.
Nine colonies sent delegates, who included Benjamin Franklin, John Dickinson, Thomas Hutchinson, Philip Livingston, and James Otis.
The delegates issued a “Declaration of Rights and Grievances,” which declared allegiance to the king and “all due subordination” to Parliament but also reasserted the idea that colonists were entitled to the same rights as Britons. Those rights included trial by jury and the right to be taxed only by their own elected representatives.
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War.
First reaching national prominence in the 1850s for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, he was captured, tried, and executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for a raid and incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859.
Who was John Brown?
Series of domestic programs enacted by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the United States between 1964 and 1968, aimed at eliminating poverty, reducing racial injustice, and expanding social welfare in the country.
What is the Great Society?
Series of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison between October 1787 and May 1788. The essays were published anonymously, under the pen name "Publius," in various New York state newspapers of the time.
What are the Federalist Essays?
Event that effectively ended Reconstruction.
Democrats conceded the presidency to Rutherford B. Hayes on the condition that all remaining troops would be removed from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
A violent confrontation between police and labour protesters in Chicago on May 4, 1886, that became a symbol of the international struggle for workers’ rights.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
The nation's first frame of government during the American Revolution.
It was debated by the Second Continental Congress at Independence Hall in Philadelphia between July 1776 and November 1777, was finalized by the Congress on November 15, 1777, and came into force on March 1, 1781, after being ratified by all 13 colonial states.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Five bills enacted in September of 1850.
They called for the admission of California as a "free state," provided for a territorial government for Utah and New Mexico, established a boundary between Texas and the United States, called for the abolition of slave trade in Washington, DC, and amended the Fugitive Slave Act.
Also known as the National Labor Relations Act of 1935.
Foundational statute of United States labor law that guarantees the right of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining, and take collective action such as strikes.
What is the Wagner Act?
Armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes on both individuals and their trades
What is Shay's Rebellion?
Plan for Reconstruction "pocket vetoed" by Abraham Lincoln.
Required that 50 percent of a state's White males take a loyalty oath to the United States (and swear they had never assisted the Confederacy) to be readmitted to the Union. Only after taking this "Ironclad Oath" would they be able to participate in conventions to write new state constitutions.
What was the Wade-Davis Bill?
1958 book by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith.
The book sought to clearly outline the manner in which the post–World War II United States was becoming wealthy in the private sector but remained poor in the public sector, lacking social and physical infrastructure, and perpetuating income disparities.
What is The Affluent Society?
Drafted by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison respectively in response to the federal Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. They argued that the national government’s authority was limited to the powers expressly granted by the U.S. Constitution, and asserted that the states could declare federal laws unconstitutional.
What are the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions?
Unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States Congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican–American War.
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
National student activist organization in the United States during the 1960s known for its activism against the Vietnam War.
Issued the "Port Huron" statement in 1962.
What is Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)?