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Religious revival through the 1730s and 1940s sparked by Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield
What is the Great Awakening?
The transformative shift towards machine use and factory production, which came with the creation of the modern factory system
What is the Industrial Revolution?
7 joint discussions between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas during the US Senate race in Illinois. They discussed the outcome of slavery and its spread in the US.
What is the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
British passanger liner that sank after it was targeted by Germany. Killed 1198 people, including 128 Americans, which pushed the US closer to joining the Great War
What is Lusitania?
Government-led initiative to reduce illegal drug trade and abuse, mostly through law enforcement. Reagan greatly expanded its reach with his "Just Say No"
What is the War on Drugs?
What is the Boston Massacre?
Armed revolt of Massachusetts farmers/veterans who were in large debt to demand lighter taxes and to stop property takeovers. This scared governments that their government would become/was becoming "mob-filled".
What is Shay's Rebellion?
One of 2 remaining Union forts left in the South (South Carolina specifically) after the Confederacy seceded, and was where Confederate army fired the first shots of the Civil War against Union troops coming to aid trapped troops in the fort
What is Fort Sumter?
Legal case in which a teacher was being charged for unlawfully teaching human evolution in any state-funded school. Stoked national debate about evolution
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
Significant American victory that reinforced the colonial cause and gained French attention for an alliance in the American Revolution
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Slave rebellion in the colonies caused by the Spanish promise of their freedom in Florida; led to slave codes, forced illiteracy, manipulation of slave church teachings, and cutting import of slaves by 90% to balance the slave to colonist proportion
What is the Stono Rebellion?
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
A federal arsenal that was raided by John Brown and his abolitionist group in 1859. The raid showed Southerners that Northerners would go to extreme measures for abolition
What is Harper's Ferry?
Secret leasing of federal oil reserves by Pres. Harding's secretary after being bribed
What is the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Major scandal of Reagan's second term where his administration sold "arms for hostages" with Iran, greatly damaging Reagan's credibility
What is the Iran-Contra Affair?
War between the French and British over territory in the new world; led to significant British salutary neglect
What is the 7 Years War/French and Indian War?
Conflict between the South Carolina government and President Andrew Jackson occurred when the state government tried to declare the 1832 tariff void in SC and threatened to secede from the Union if this claim was ignored. Resolved by Henry Clay's support in the Tariff of 1833, which compromised the previous tariff
What is the Nullification Crisis?
May 4, 1886; A protest against police violence in which a bomb was thrown into the middle of the meeting of a peaceful rally for 8-hour work days. 8 anarchists were arrested with little evidence, 4 were executed, 1 killed themself, and 4 were pardoned.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
Meeting between President Truman, Churchill, and Stalin in 1945 to tell Japan to either surrender or be destroyed
What is the Potsdam Conference?
War fought between Britain and US because of trade and British impressment. No one really won, but Native Americans lost land and people and Britain agreed to never invade the US again
What is the War of 1812?
Indian uprising against the Spanish Christians in 1680. They killed many Spaniards, burned churches, and tried to remove Christianity.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
A deal supposedly made between Quincy Adams and Henry Clay to throw the election in favor of Adams instead of Jackson, all against the popular vote, which made Jacksonian supporters mad
What is the Corrupt Bargain?
The deadliest battle in American history that ended in a draw but was considered by the Union to be a victory which warranted the Emancipation Proclamation
What is the Battle of Antietam?
The overthrow of the socialist Chilean president, Salvador Allende. US covertly supported
What is the Allende Coup?
Meeting of Franklin Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin in Feb. 1945 where postwar foundations were set (power divisions)
What is the Yalta Conference?