Old talk
City Upon a Hill
John Winthrop
The secret network of whites and free blacks helped lead hundreds to freedom.
Underground Railroad
These acts were the laws put against Americans to restrict them to buy and sell only to European countries.
Navigation Acts
The Boston Tea Party, American independence from British rule.
American Revolution
A telegram made by Arthur Zimmerman asking Mexico to join the Powers. Promising that the Powers would help get Mexico back Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Zimmerman Telegram
"The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible."
Slave preacher who led a bloody revolt in Southampton, Virginia in 1831
Nat Turner Rebellion
Five acts to force Massachusetts to pay for tea and to submit to imperial authority. Quartering Act, Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, and the Quebec Act.
A disputed boundary between the United States and Texas, extended the United States to the Pacific Ocean
Mexican-American War
This was a declaration of the people allowing the government to rule over them under the condition that they protect their natural rights. Failure to do so allowed the people to rebel and overthrow the government.
Social Contract
"We the people, in order to form a more perfect union, 221 years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and with these simple words launched America’s improbable experiment in democracy."
Barak Obama
The agreement in which one contested state was admitted as a slave-holding state, the other as a free state, and slavery was prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36°30’ .
Missouri Compromise
This allowed for a form of income for people of old age (pensions), unemployment compensation, and aid to families with dependent children & disabled (welfare)
Social Security Act
Impressment of American sailors by the British Navy, increased patriotism in the United States.
War of 1812
Established the precedent of judicial review and power of the courts, with this court case.
Madbury v. Madison
"We shall fight on the beaches."
Winston Churchhill
The failure of the Turner revolt led to the passage of stricter these by many slave state legislatures
Slave codes
Law to prevent disloyalty, freedom to criticize the government was reduced. Also hard to become a citizen in America.
Alien and Sedition Act
The spread of communism during the Cold War, severely damaged the U.S. economy
Vietnam War
October 29, 1929 – Stock Market Crash.
Black Tuesday
“Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The forced migration of thousands of Native Americans from their lands to Oklahoma and other western territories in the early 1830s.
Trail of Tears
This reformed the federal government's civil service system away from the patronage system. It selected government employees by exams and protected the from being fired for political reasons.
Pendleton Act
The Election of 1860, slavery abolished
Civil War
Extreme patriotism, especially in the form of aggressive or warlike foreign policy. (looking for an -ism here)
Jingoism