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Edict of Nantes

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1598- Granted Calvinist Protestants rights in England

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Beard Thesis (of the Constitution)

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Charles Beard= American author Argues that founding fathers drafted the constitution with their personal finances in mind.

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Jingoism

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Agressive foreign policy

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Lowell System

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Labor & production model Used in Am. textile industry in the early 19th century.

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Bland-Allison Act

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1878- Act of Congress requiring the U.S. Treasury to buy a certain amount of silver and put it into circulation as silver dollars.

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Addams-Onis Treaty

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1819- Treaty that gave the U.S. Florida and settled a border between them and New Spain (now Mexico)

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Rough Riders

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Name bestowed on the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of three such regiments raised in 1898 for the Spanish-American War and the only one of the three to see action.

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Terrence Powderly

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He was a highly visible national spokesman for the working man as head of the Knights of Labor from 1879 until 1893

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Robert Fulton

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An American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat.

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Franklin Pierce

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14th President of the United States (1853-1857)

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Coxey's Army

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Was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by Ohio businessman Jacob Coxey.

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Border Ruffians

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Pro-slavery activists from the slave state of Missouri, who in 1854 to 1860 crossed the state border into Kansas Territory, to force the acceptance of slavery there.

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Tripoli War

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The 2007 Lebanon conflict began when fighting broke out between Fatah al-Islam, an Islamist militant organization, and the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) on May 20, 2007 in Nahr al-Bared, an UNRWA Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli.

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Sherman's March Through Georgia

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Savannah Campaign conducted around Georgia from November 15, 1864 to December 21, 1864 by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army in the American Civil War.

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Maysville Road Veto

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Vetoed by Jackson Part of the Cumberland Road System; would connect Lexington and Ohio River and run through most of Kentucky

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"Cross of Gold" Speech

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Speech delivered by William Jennings Bryan, a former congressman from Nebraska, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on July 9, 1896. Advocating free silver.

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Credit Mobilier Scandal

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The distribution of Crédit Mobilier shares of stock by Congressman Oakes Ames along with cash bribes to congressmen took place during the Andrew Johnson presidency in 1868

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Boxer Rebellion

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Also known as Boxer Uprising or Yihetuan Movement, was a proto-nationalist movement by the "Righteous Harmony Society" in China between 1898 and 1901, opposing foreign imperialism and Christianity.

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Freeport Doctrine

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Articulated by Stephen A. Douglas at the second of the Lincoln-Douglas debates on August 27, 1858, in Freeport, Illinois.

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Turner Thesis

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The argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that the origin of the distinctive egalitarian, democratic, aggressive, and innovative features of the American character has been the American frontier experience

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Wade-Davis Bill

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1864 was a program proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans, Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Representative Henry Winter Davis of Maryland. Lincoln vetoed it.

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Trent Affair

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international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War

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Iran-Contra Affair

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A political scandal in the United States that came to light in November 1986. During the Reagan administration, senior Reagan administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo.

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Pentagon Papers

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United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.

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Russo-Japonese War

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(8 February 1904 - 5 September 1905) was "the first great war of the 20th century." It grew out of rival imperial ambitions of the Russian Empire and Japanese Empire over Manchuria and Korea.

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Saturday Night Massacre

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was the term given by political commentators to U.S. President Richard Nixon's executive dismissal of independent special prosecutor Archibald Cox, and the resignations of Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus on October 20, 1973 during the Watergate scandal.

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Watts Riots

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Was a civil disturbance in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California from August 11 to August 15, 1965. The five-day riot resulted in 34 deaths, 1,032 injuries, 3,438 arrests, and over $40 million in property damage

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Alger Hiss

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an American lawyer, government official, author, and lecturer. He was involved in the establishment of the United Nations both as a U.S. State Department and U.N. official. Hiss was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950. (HUAC was involved)

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Ashcan School

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A realist artistic movement that came into prominence in the United States during the early twentieth century, best known for works portraying scenes of daily life in New York's poorer neighborhoods

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Betty Friedan

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Wrote the feminine mystique

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Henry Kissinger

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German-born American academic, political scientist, diplomat, and businessman. A recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, he served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. After his term, his opinion was still sought by many subsequent presidents and many world leaders

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Hideki Tojo

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General of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from 17 October 1941 to 22 July 1944

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James Meredith

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1962- First African American to go to the University of Mississippi

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Joseph McCarthy

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U.S. Sen from Wisconsin during the Cold War who thought there were many communist and Soviet spies in the U.S.

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Sinclair Lewis

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American novelist and playwright. First American to receive a Nobel prize for Literature.

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Slobadan Milosevic

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Serbian socialist politician in Yugoslavia and Serbia. who was recently charged with war crimes.

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Warren Burger

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was the 15th Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986. Although Burger had conservative leanings[1] and was considered a strict constructionist, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a variety of transformative decisions on abortion, capital punishment, religious establishment, and school desegregation during his tenure.

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William Rehnquist

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American lawyer, jurist, and political figure who served as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States and later as the 16th Chief Justice of the United States. Considered a conservative, Rehnquist favored a conception of federalism that emphasized the Tenth Amendment's reservation of powers to the states

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Baghdad Pact

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Formed in 1955 by Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. It was dissolved in 1979.Considered one of the most unsuccessful Cold War alliances.

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Eisenhower Doctrine

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Said a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state

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Emergency Quota Act

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Restricted immigration to the U.S. from Europe and established a quota that could not be surpassed.

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Espionage Act

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1919- Originally prohibited any attempt to interfere with military operations, to support U.S. enemies during wartime, to promote insubordination in the military, or to interfere with military recruitment. Has been amended since then so it does not interfere with free speech rights.

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Fordney McCumber Act

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1920- Tariff that was made to help protect American farms and factories.

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Glass-Steagall Banking Act

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Established the FDIC , Created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which insures the accounts of depositors of its member banks. It outlawed banks investing in the stock market.

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Helsinki Accord

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Thirty-five states, including the USA, Canada, and all European states except Albania and Andorra, signed the declaration in an attempt to improve relations between the Communist bloc and the West. The Helsinki Accords, however, were not binding as they did not have treaty status.

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Platt Amendment

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This amendment to the new Cuban constitution authorized U.S. intervention in Cuba to protect its interests. Cuba pledged not to make treates with other countries that might compromise its independence, and it granted naval bases to the United States, most notable being Guantanamo Bay.

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Port Huron Statement

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1962; adopted by 60 students determined not to be a "silent generation," it was a broad critique of American society and called for more genuine human relationships; proclaimed a "new left" and formed the "Students for a Democratic Society" envisioning a nonviolent youth movement transforming the US into a "participatory democracy" as an end to materialism, militarism, and racism; demonstrated the feelings of a disillusioned generation (JFK's death, police brutality) that made them work for change in the second half of the 20th century

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Tripartite Pact

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Signed between the Axis powers in 1940 (Italy, Germany and Japan) where they pledged to help the others in the event of an attack by the US

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Volstead Act

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The Act specified that "no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, furnish or possess any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act." It did not specifically prohibit the purchase or use of intoxicating liquors

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