https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia en-us 2019-04-24 16:10:49 UTC 2026-01-26 21:09:52 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f3e1.png luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353805305 James Madison wrote the first drafts of the U.S. Constitution, co-wrote the Federalist Papers and sponsored the Bill of Rights. He established the Democrat-Republican Party with President Thomas Jefferson, and became president himself in 1808.]]> 2019-04-24 16:14:04 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353805305 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353805578  The immediate causes of the War of 1812 were a series of economic sanctions taken by the British and French against the US as part of the Napoleonic Wars and American outrage at the British practice of impressiveness, especially after the Chesapeake incident of 1807. ]]> 2019-04-24 16:14:36 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353805578 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353805839 King William's War was the North American theater of the Nine Years' War, also known as the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg.]]> 2019-04-24 16:15:07 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353805839 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353805853 James Monroe (1758 – 1831) was the fifth President of the United States who served for two terms from 1817 to 1825. His presidency is most known for achievements in foreign affairs including the Monroe Doctrine, which is considered a defining moment in U.S. foreign policy.]]> 2019-04-24 16:15:08 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353805853 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353806665 The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin, then a senior leader (age 48) and a delegate from Pennsylvania, at the Albany Congress on July 10, 1754 in Albany, New York.]]> 2019-04-24 16:17:05 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353806665 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353806903 Robert Fulton (1765–1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is widely known for developing a commercially successful steamboat called Clermont. In 1807, that steamboat took passengers from New York City to Albany and back again, a round trip of 300 miles, in 62 hours.]]> 2019-04-24 16:17:43 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353806903 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353807073 Britain made the Proclamation of 1763. It recognized the Indians’ right to the land. It did not allow colonists west of the Appalachian Mountains.]]> 2019-04-24 16:18:10 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353807073 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353807257  McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) is one of the first and most important Supreme Court cases on federal power. In this case, the Supreme Court held that Congress has implied powers derived from those listed in Article I, Section 8. The “Necessary and Proper” Clause gave Congress the power to establish a national bank.]]> 2019-04-24 16:18:33 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353807257 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353807812  tensions rose between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions within the U.S. Congress and across the country.To keep the peace, Congress orchestrate a two-part compromise, granting Missouri's request but also admitting Maine as a free state.]]> 2019-04-24 16:19:54 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353807812 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353808790 The cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, it did not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton. Cotton growing became so profitable for the planters that it increased their demand for both land and slave labor.]]> 2019-04-24 16:22:07 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353808790 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353808977 A writ of assistance is a written order issued by a court instructing a law enforcement official, such as a sheriff or a tax collector, to perform a certain task. Historically, several types of writs have been called "writs of assistance".]]> 2019-04-24 16:22:34 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353808977 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353809759 The Boston Massacre, known to the British as the Incident on King Street, was a confrontation on March 5, 1770 in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams.]]> 2019-04-24 16:24:18 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353809759 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353809896 The European powers, according to Monroe, were obligated to respect the Western Hemisphere as the United States' sphere of interest.

]]> 2019-04-24 16:24:37 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353809896 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353810293 The Intolerable Acts were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods.]]> 2019-04-24 16:25:25 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353810293 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353810379 He was a lawyer and a landowner, he became a national war hero after defeating the British in the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812. Jackson was elected the seventh president of the United States in 1828.]]> 2019-04-24 16:25:31 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353810379 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353811016 The decision was made, and on November 24, 1832, the South Carolina legislature passed the Ordinance of Nullification, which declared the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 unconstitutional, and thereby null and void. The Nullification Crisis began with this act.]]> 2019-04-24 16:26:50 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353811016 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353811148 The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of British tea into the harbor.]]> 2019-04-24 16:27:04 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353811148 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353811678  The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march. Over 4,000 out of 15,000 of the Cherokees died.]]> 2019-04-24 16:28:14 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353811678 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353811803  On December 1, 1774, the Continental Association was created to boycott all contact with British goods. By reversing the economic sanctions placed on the colonists, the delegates hoped Britain would repeal its Intolerable Acts. ]]> 2019-04-24 16:28:30 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353811803 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353812174 Nat Turner and his supporters began a revolt against white slave owners with the killing of his owners, the Travis family.Turner believed in signs and heard divine voices, and he had a vision in 1825 of a bloody conflict between black and white spirits.]]> 2019-04-24 16:29:18 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353812174 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353812547 Major accomplishments of the Second Continental Congress: On June 14, 1775 they established the Continental Army. They made George Washington General of the Army. On July 8, 1775 they tried again for peace by sending the Olive Branch Petition to the King of Britain.]]> 2019-04-24 16:30:12 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353812547 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353812650 Farm girls and young women who came to work at the textile factory were housed in supervised dormitories or boardinghouses and were provided with educational and cultural opportunities.]]> 2019-04-24 16:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353812650 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353813762   Dorothea Dix was a famous nurse who fought for the rights of individuals with mental illnesses. She is perhaps best known, however, as the superintendent of nurses for the Union Army in the Civil War. Dorothea Dix was born on April 4, 1802, in Hamden, Maine. ]]> 2019-04-24 16:32:51 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353813762 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353813928 Common Sense was an instant best-seller. Published in January 1776 in Philadelphia, nearly 120,000 copies were in circulation by April. Paine's brilliant arguments were straightforward. He argued for two main points: (1) independence from England and (2) the creation of a democratic republic.]]> 2019-04-24 16:33:12 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353813928 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353814218 Cyrus West Field and the Atlantic Telegraph Company were behind the construction of the first transatlantic telegraph cable. The project began in 1854 and was completed in 1858.]]> 2019-04-24 16:33:42 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353814218 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353814590 The woman's rights convention–the first ever held in the United States–convenes with almost 200 women in attendance. ]]> 2019-04-24 16:34:29 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353814590 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353815060 Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American Transcendentalist poet, philosopher and essayist during the 19th century. One of his best-known essays is "Self-Reliance.”]]> 2019-04-24 16:35:29 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353815060 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353886888 The Wilmot Proviso was a proposal to prohibit slavery in the territory acquired by the United States at the conclusion of the Mexican War. ]]> 2019-04-24 19:05:50 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353886888 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353887496 Polk's request to declare war on Mexico in a dispute over Texas. Under the threat of war, the United States had refrained from annexing Texas after the latter won independence from Mexico in 1836.]]> 2019-04-24 19:07:38 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353887496 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353887958 The name "49ers" comes from the prospectors who arrived in Northern California in the 1849 Gold Rush. The team is legally and corporately registered as the San Francisco Forty Niners.]]> 2019-04-24 19:08:56 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353887958 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353888795 The Compromise of 1850 consists of five laws passed in September of 1850 that dealt with the issue of slavery and territorial expansion.]]> 2019-04-24 19:11:11 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/353888795 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/354351977 For this act statutes passed by Congress in 1793 and 1850 (and repealed in 1864) that provided for the seizure and return of runaway slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a federal territory.]]> 2019-04-26 05:36:07 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/354351977 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/354352450 This is important because it allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.]]> 2019-04-26 05:39:12 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/354352450 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/354352639 The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP, Grand Old Party, is one of the two major political parties in the United States; the other is its historic rival, the Democratic Party. The GOP was founded in 1854 by opponents of the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which had expanded slavery into U.S. territories.]]> 2019-04-26 05:41:50 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/354352639 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/354352886 He was an American abolitionist who believed in and advocated armed insurrection as the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States. ]]> 2019-04-26 05:44:26 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/354352886 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/354353047 Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that the U.S. Constitution was not meant to include American citizenship for black people]]> 2019-04-26 05:46:15 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/354353047 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/354585383 Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, is published. While living in Cincinnati, Stowe encountered fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad. Later, she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin in reaction to recently tightened fugitive slave laws.]]> 2019-04-26 19:26:34 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/354585383 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/355846128 The Declaration of Independence is one of the most important documents in the history of the United States. It was an official act taken by all 13 American colonies in declaring independence from British rule.

]]> 2019-05-01 15:46:01 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/355846128 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/355854862 The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution. It was approved, after much debate, by the Second Continental Congress on November 15, 1777, and sent to the states for ratification.]]> 2019-05-01 16:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/355854862 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/355857200 The Northwest Ordinance, adopted July 13,1787, by the Confederation Congress, chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory.]]> 2019-05-01 16:08:31 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/355857200 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/355859521 Federalist No. 25 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the twenty-fifth of The Federalist Papers. It was published on December 21, 1787 under the pseudonym Publish, the name under which all The Federalist papers were published.]]> 2019-05-01 16:13:06 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/355859521 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/355860369 The Whiskey Rebellion afforded the new U.S. government its first opportunity to establish federal authority by military means within state boundaries, as officials moved into western Pennsylvania to quell an uprising of settlers rebelling against the liquor tax.]]> 2019-05-01 16:14:56 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/355860369 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/355865399 Adams was well known for his extreme political independence, brilliant mind and passionate patriotism. He was a leader in the Continental Congress and an important diplomatic figure, before becoming America's first vice president. ]]> 2019-05-01 16:24:36 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/355865399 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/355866464 The XYZ Affair was a diplomatic incident that occurred between the United States and France in 1797. In an attempt to avert war with Great Britain, the U.S. signed the Jay Treaty in 1795. One of the provisions of the treaty limited the ability of nations that were hostile to Great Britain to trade in U.S. ports.  ]]> 2019-05-01 16:26:47 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/355866464 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/355867399 A series of laws known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by the Federalist Congress in 1798 and signed into law by President Adams. These laws included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote. ]]> 2019-05-01 16:28:49 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/355867399 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/355868395 Marbury v. Madison, legal case in which, on February 24, 1803, the U.S. Supreme Court first declared an act of Congress unconstitutional, thus establishing the doctrine of judicial review. The court's opinion, written by Chief Justice John Marshall, is considered one of the foundations of U.S. constitutional law.]]> 2019-05-01 16:31:04 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/355868395 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/355868869 The Lewis and Clark Expedition from May 1804 to September 1806, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross the western portion of the United States.]]> 2019-05-01 16:32:08 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/355868869 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/355869228 Thomas Jefferson called his election "the Revolution of 1800" because it marked the first time that power in America passed from one party to another. He promised to govern as he felt the Founders intended, based on decentralized government and trust in the people to make the right decisions for themselves.]]> 2019-05-01 16:32:54 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/355869228 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/355869891 The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition of the Louisiana territory of New France by the United States from France in 1803. The U.S. paid fifty million francs and a cancellation of debts worth eighteen million francs for a total of sixty-eight million francs.]]> 2019-05-01 16:34:17 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/355869891 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356060515 Samuel Gompers was an English-born American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor, and served as the organization's president from 1886 to 1894, and from 1895 until his death in 1924. ]]> 2019-05-02 04:14:04 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356060515 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356060668 On May 4, 1886, a labor protest rally near Chicago's Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day. Despite a lack of evidence against them, eight radical labor activists were convicted in connection with the bombing.]]> 2019-05-02 04:15:03 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356060668 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356060809 Hull House, founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and others, was one of the first settlement houses in the United States. Its initial programs included providing recreational facilities for slum children, fighting for child labor laws, and helping immigrants become U.S. citizens.]]> 2019-05-02 04:15:52 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356060809 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356061388 Eugene Victor Debs was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. On June 16, 1918 Debs made an anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio, protesting US involvement in World War I. He was arrested under the Espionage Act of 1917 and convicted, sentenced to serve ten years in prison and to be disenfranchised for life.]]> 2019-05-02 04:19:30 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356061388 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356061827 Horatio Alger Jr. was an American writer of young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. ]]> 2019-05-02 04:22:11 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356061827 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356061997 The Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States that lasted from May 11 to July 20, 1894, and a turning point for US labor law.By the end of strike 34 people had been killed. Violence was never sanctioned by the ARU or Eugene Debs. ... During March and April of 1894 a majority of Pullman workers joined the American Railway Union (ARU), which was growing due to a recent successful strike against the Great Northern Railroad.]]> 2019-05-02 04:23:24 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356061997 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356062266 The Grange. The first successful national farming organization was the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry, better known as the Grange, founded in 1867. Oliver Kelley was an active leader in local agricultural circles who was dedicated to the idea that the area's farmers benefited from each others' experiences.]]> 2019-05-02 04:25:33 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356062266 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356062411 The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act is a United States federal law enacted in 1883 that mandated that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation. The Pendleton Act is important because it stopped the appointment of people to governmental offices merely because of their political affiliation or their connection to the president. The Pendleton Act required qualified people to be elected to governmental offices based on the individual's merit.]]> 2019-05-02 04:26:53 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356062411 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356062622 William McKinley served in the U.S. Congress and as governor of Ohio before running for the presidency in 1896. ... In 1898, McKinley led the nation into war with Spain over the issue of Cuban independence; the brief and decisive conflict ended with the U.S. in possession of Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Guam.]]> 2019-05-02 04:28:26 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356062622 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356062827 William Jennings Bryan was an American orator and politician from Nebraska. Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, standing three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States.William Jennings Bryan, a prominent American politician in the 1890s, made a speech during his political career that warned against the harms and hubris of American imperialism. ... Bryan calls for a rejection of imperialism in American policy on the grounds that imperialism is directly opposed to basic American values.]]> 2019-05-02 04:30:01 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356062827 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356063074 Mahan served twice as president of the college, 1886 to 1889 and 1892 to 1893. The Influence of Sea Power upon History appeared in 1890 and The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire in 1892. ... Alfred Thayer Mahan also argued that modern navies needed repair and coaling stations.  Mahan's theories had an impact on both the United States and the world. In the late 1890s, the U.S. annexed Hawaii and made it an official U.S. territory. After the Spanish-American War, the U.S. also gained access to places like Puerto Rico and the Philippines, where it set up naval bases.]]> 2019-05-02 04:31:49 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356063074 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356064132 Queen Liliuokalani (1838-1917) was the last sovereign of the Kamehameha dynasty, which had ruled a unified Hawaiian kingdom since 1810. When Liliuokalani acted to restore these powers, a U.S. military-backed coup deposed her in 1893 and formed a provisional government; Hawaii was declared a republic in 1894.]]> 2019-05-02 04:34:43 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356064132 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356065537 The Spanish–American War was an armed conflict between Spain and the United States in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of USS Maine in Havana harbor in Cuba, leading to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.]]> 2019-05-02 04:45:45 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356065537 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356065702 The De Lôme letter, a note written by Señor Don Enrique Dupuy de Lôme, the Spanish Ambassador to the United States, to Don José Canalejas, the Foreign Minister of Spain, reveals de Lôme’s opinion about the Spanish involvement in Cuba and US President McKinley’s diplomacy.]]> 2019-05-02 04:47:01 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356065702 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356065855 USS Maine was a United States Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor in 1898, contributing to the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in 1898. American newspapers, engaging in yellow journalism to boost circulation, claimed that the Spanish were responsible for the ship's destruction. The USS Maine explodes in Cuba's Havana Harbor. ... In 1976, a team of American naval investigators concluded that the Maine explosion was likely caused by a fire that ignited its ammunition stocks, not by a Spanish mine or act of sabotage.]]> 2019-05-02 04:48:27 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356065855 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356066032 Newspaper owners William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, journalism of the 1890s used melodrama, romance, and hyperbole to sell millions of newspapers--a style that became known as yellow journalism. Yellow Journalism is journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration.]]> 2019-05-02 04:50:15 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356066032 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356066311 Yellow journalism, the use of lurid features and sensationalized news in newspaper publishing to attract readers and increase circulation. The phrase was coined in the 1890s to describe the tactics employed in furious competition between two New York City newspapers, the World and the Journal.]]> 2019-05-02 04:52:35 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356066311 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356066552 The Open Door Policy is a term in foreign affairs initially used to refer to the United States policy established in the late 19th century and the early 20th century that would allow for a system of trade in China open to all countries equally.]]> 2019-05-02 04:54:18 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356066552 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356067948 The direct consequence of the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 was that the ruling Chinese Qing dynasty became even weaker and foreign influence in China continued. The Boxer Rebellion was a rebellion staged by an anti-foreigner Chinese society known for their "boxing" skills in physical exercise and defense.]]> 2019-05-02 05:04:29 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356067948 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356068057 Five (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands) are permanently-inhabited, unincorporated territories; the other nine are small islands, atolls and reefs with no native (or permanent) population. Of the eleven, only one is classified as an incorporated territory.]]> 2019-05-02 05:05:29 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356068057 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356068563 On March 2, 1901, the Platt Amendment was passed as part of the 1901 Army Appropriations Bill. It stipulated seven conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops remaining in Cuba at the end of the Spanish–American War, and an eighth condition that Cuba sign a treaty accepting these seven conditions.]]> 2019-05-02 05:09:48 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356068563 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356069512 The National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association, both founded in 1869, were the main suffrage organizations in the U.S. during the 19th century. They pursued the right to vote in different ways, but by 1890 it became necessary to combine efforts to keep the cause alive.]]> 2019-05-02 05:16:15 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356069512 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356069668 Susan B. Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.]]> 2019-05-02 05:17:25 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356069668 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356090943 He came to the belief that the slaves should be free over time. At first, he believed that the expansion of slavery should be halted, but he came to believe that slavery had no place in American democracy.]]> 2019-05-02 07:30:00 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356090943 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356090992 The Confederate States of America, commonly referred to as the Confederacy, was an unrecognized country in North America that existed from 1861 to 1865.]]> 2019-05-02 07:30:16 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356090992 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091032 On April 9, 1865, near the town of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to Union GeneralUlysses S. Grant.]]> 2019-05-02 07:30:28 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091032 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091063 During the Reconstruction period after the American Civil War, popular name for the U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, established by Congress to provide practical aid to 4,000,000 newly freed African Americans in their transition from slavery to freedom.]]> 2019-05-02 07:30:38 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091063 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091102  They were designed to ensure equality for recently emancipated slaves. The 15th Amendment prohibited governments from denying U.S. citizens the right to vote based on race, color, or past servitude.]]> 2019-05-02 07:30:49 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091102 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091150 recently brought back by tump...The Ku Klux Klan, commonly called the KKK or the Klan, is an American white supremacist hate group. The Klan has existed in three distinct eras at different points in time during the history of the United States.]]> 2019-05-02 07:31:00 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091150 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091182 With the Radical Republicans fully in control of Congress after the mid-term elections of 1866, they quickly passed the Military Reconstruction Acts of 1867. These acts divided the south into five military districts.]]> 2019-05-02 07:31:11 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091182 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091208 The House vote made President Johnson the first president to be impeached in U.S. history.]]> 2019-05-02 07:31:22 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091208 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091296 Carpetbaggers and scalawags were both epithets coined by southern Democrats who opposed the social change of Reconstruction. Scalawags, on the other hand, were Southerners who joined the Republican Party, or at least supported Reconstruction.]]> 2019-05-02 07:31:56 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091296 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091324 Tammany Hall was the name given to the Democratic political machine that dominated New York City politics from the mayoral victory of Fernando Wood in 1854 through the election of Fiorello LaGuardia in 1934.]]> 2019-05-02 07:32:06 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091324 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091347  The Credit Mobilier of America construction company in the building of the eastern portion of the First Transcontinental Railroad.]]> 2019-05-02 07:32:17 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091347 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091391 The Compromise of 1877 was an informal, unwritten deal, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era.]]> 2019-05-02 07:32:35 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091391 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091438 Educator Booker T. Washington was one of the foremost African-American leaders of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, founding the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, now known as Tuskegee University.]]> 2019-05-02 07:32:50 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091438 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091462 Plessy v. Ferguson ruled that separate-but-equal facilities were constitutional. The Plessy v. Ferguson decision upheld the principle of racial segregation over the next half-century.]]> 2019-05-02 07:33:00 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091462 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091494 Exodusters was a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century, as part of theExoduster Movement or Exodus of 1879.]]> 2019-05-02 07:33:10 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091494 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091537 The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace. ]]> 2019-05-02 07:33:27 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091537 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091560 When the first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid in 1858 by businessman Cyrus West Field, it operated for only three weeks; subsequent attempts in 1865 and 1866 were more successful.]]> 2019-05-02 07:33:39 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091560 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091611 Six years after work began, laborers of the Central Pacific Railroad from the west and the Union Pacific Railroad from the east met at Promontory Summit, Utah.]]> 2019-05-02 07:33:52 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091611 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091639 In 1870, the company was renamed Standard Oil Company, after which Rockefeller decided to buy up all the other competition and form them into one large company. The company faced legal issues in 1890 following passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act.]]> 2019-05-02 07:34:06 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091639 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091662 In his 84 years, Thomas Edison acquired a record number of 1,093 patents and was the driving force behind such innovations as the phonograph, the incandescent light bulb and one of the earliest motion picture cameras. He also created the world's first industrial research laboratory.]]> 2019-05-02 07:34:16 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091662 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091701  in U.S. history, a political-action movement that from 1866 to 1873 sought to improve working conditions through legislative reform rather than through collective bargaining.]]> 2019-05-02 07:34:27 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091701 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091735 The Knights pressed for the eight-hour work day for laborers, and embraced a vision of a society in which workers, not capitalists, would own the industries in which they labored. The Knights also sought to end child labor and convict labor.]]> 2019-05-02 07:34:40 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091735 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091758 The Chinese Exclusion Act had a ripple effect on the United States' legal history. It was followed by the Geary Act of 1892 which extended the provisions of theExclusion Act for another ten years. In 1902 the ban against the immigration ofChinese laborers was made permanent.

]]> 2019-05-02 07:34:52 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091758 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091799 Its president was Samuel Gompers, who served until 1925. The purpose of the AFL was to organize skilled workers into national unions consisting of others in the same trade.]]> 2019-05-02 07:35:03 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091799 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091830 most significant person in the history of the American labor movement, the effort of working people to improve their lives by forming organizations called unions. He founded and served as the first president of the American Federation of Labor.]]> 2019-05-02 07:35:13 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/msytaje962ia/wish/356091830