Colonization (period 2)
This colonial region was characterized by long life expectancy, a diversified economy, stable families, and a strong religious influence.
New England
Jackson came to embody this major change in voting, which took place in the 1810s and 1820s.
All White men could vote
He came to symbolize the Horatio Alger myth of the Gilded Age-- the man who rose from poverty to riches.
Andrew Carnegie
The misunderstandings and failures of this World War II peace conferences laid the foundation for the cold war.
Yalta/Potsdam
This colony wide event of the 1730s and 40s reduced division between Protestant groups and challenged traditional ideas about religious authority.
Great Awakening
This was the most important reform movement of the antebellum age. Some of its leading figures were Frederick Douglass, Sarah and Angelina Grimke, and William Lloyd Garrison.
Abolition
This transportation innovation did the most to bring white settlement to the West and destroy the Native American way of life.
Railroadz
George Kennan laid the foundation for this long-term policy for the US during the Cold War.
Containment
Colonies of the Chesapeake were characterized by an economy based on forced labor around this crop.
Tobacco
Beginning in the 1790s, the tobacco economy in the upper South began to collapse, and slavery came to be associated with this more valuable crop of the lower South.
Cotton
This issue of the populist party proved to be a compelling answer to the problem of economic depression in the 1890s, even though it was rejected by the voters.
This movement of population from cities of the Northeast and Midwest to here had profound social, cultural, economic, and political effects.
Suburbs/Sunbelt
This collection of laws was an attempt by Parliament to regulate colonial trade for British benefit, the laws were not well enforced.
Navigation Acts
This was a key political issue for Jackson’s supporters; they believed it would open up greater opportunities for “ordinary Americans”.
Bank War/Indian Removal
This world-wide economic reality made farming difficult for Americans in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s.
Falling prices for agricultural goods
As this version of the Civil Rights movement came to dominate in the late 1960s, white support evaporated, and many whites shifted toward the conservative movement.
Black Power
This colonial uprising was shaped by back-country hostility to both Native Americans and coastal elites in 17th century Virginia.
Bacon's Rebellion
This artistic movement, which emerged out of transcendentalism, celebrated the beauty of nature.
Hudson River School
At the start of the Age in 1870, most immigrants came from Northwestern Europe. By 1900, this is how patterns had changed.
Southern and Eastern Europe, Poland, Italy, Russia
This“new Left” group began in 1962, leading protests against the war in Vietnam and angering conservatives everywhere.
Students for a Democratic Society