Foreign Policy
A federal law excluding Chinese immigrates
Chinese exclusion act
A American political movement that was anti-catholicism and anti-immigration sentiments. Specifically Irish Catholics
No nothing party
a pivotal national alliance of craft unions dedicated to improving wages, hours, and working conditions for skilled laborers. Focusing on "bread and butter" unionism rather than radical political change
American Federation of labor
A battle with the Natives that ended with the Natives winning
Battle of little Bighorn
Stop monomies and split business into smaller powers
Sherman Antitrust Act 1890
prohibited US trade with any nation (agrarian society), led to depression in NE and increased Federalists in 1808 election.
embargo Act
Immigrants created close-knit communities to maintain cultural ties but were isolated from mainstream society.
Ethnic Ghettos
the largest and most influential American labor organization of the 19th century, founded in 1869, that united skilled and unskilled workers, including women and African Americans, under one
Knight of Labor
The assimilation for Native Americans
Dawes Act 1887
Journalists exposed corruption and social ills, such as Ida Tarbell/standard oil
Muckrakers
john quincy adams and henry clay, basically just ended the war, all land acquired during war returned to the natives.
Treaty of Ghent 1814
African Americans who migrated from the South to Kansas (and surrounding states) in the late 1870s to escape post-Reconstruction racial oppression, violence, and poverty
Exodusters
the first nationwide, multi-state labor strike in U.S. history, triggered by wage cuts amid a severe economic depression.
Great Railroad Strike of 1877
two significant 19th-century agreements between the U.S. government and Great Plains Native American tribes, primarily the Lakota Sioux, to manage land and conflict during westward expansion
Treaty of Fort Laramie
A group of women who advocated total abstinence from alcohol and who worked to get laws passed against alcohol.
Women's Christian Temperance Union, WCTU
US developed trade by selling supplies to these LA countries. Monroe doctrine stated: no future colonization in the Americas
Monroe Doctrine 1823
prejudice, hostility, or discrimination against people of Asian descent, manifesting as racist policies, mistreatment, and stereotyping
Anti-Asian Sentiment
a major American agrarian-populist movement formed in 1891–1892 to represent farmers and laborers against railroad monopolies, banks, and big business
Populist party
brutal attack on November 29, 1864, where U.S. volunteer soldiers under Colonel John Chivington slaughtered over 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho people
Sand Creek masscre
National organization set up in 1895 to work for prohibition. Later joined with the WCTU to publicize the effects of drinking.
Anti-Saloon League
border issues, polk ordered Zachary taylor to cross nueces river 1846, may 13, 1846 congress declared war
Mexican American war 1846-1848
exploited new immigrants by providing basic services (food, housing) in exchange for votes.
Political Machines
During the summer of 1894 members of the American Railway Union representing the strikers succeeded in paralyzing the American railroad network west of Chicago by refusing to handle the popular Pullman cars.
pullman strike of 1893
A religious movement hoping for the return of the buffalo and white removal, which led to the US Army killing 300 Sioux at Wounded Knee, effectively ending the Indian Wars.
Ghost Dance & Wounded Knee (1890)
First national forest conservation policy, authorized the president to set aside areas of land for national forests.
Forest Reserve Act-1891