Period 4a
Missouri would be admitted as a slave state; Maine would be admitted as a free state; All new states north of the 36°30' line would be free, new states southward would allow slavery
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Took over and led the Mormons along the "Mormon Trail" to Utah after Joseph Smith was killed
Who is Brigham Young?
Declared all slaves in rebelling states to be free but did not affect slavery in non-rebelling Border States.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
Passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, it set high penalties for anyone who aided escaped slaves and compelled all law enforcement officers to participate in retrieving runaways.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law/Act?
Time period looked good on the outside, despite the corrupt politics & growing gap between the rich & poor
What is the Gilded Age?
A Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist. By 1901, his company dominated the American steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Movement to ban alcohol, inspired by religious morality and reaction to immigrant cities
What is Temperance?
Machine-made components of anything could simply be swapped out if one broke
What is an "interchangeable part"?
A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
The fear in the United States that immigrants would take jobs and impose their Roman Catholic beliefs on society
What is Nativism?
This was a book written by Carnegie that described the responsibility of the rich to be philanthropists. This softened the harshness of Social Darwinism as well as promoted the idea of philanthropy.
What is Gospel of Wealth?
A party organization that recruits voter loyalty with tangible incentives and is characterized by a high degree of control over member activity
What is a political machine?
Event, created "Declaration of Sentiments" arguing that "all men and women were created equal"; It demanded female suffrage
What is Seneca Falls?
War between the United States and England which was trying to interfere with American trade with France, was continuing practice of impressment, and was supporting Native American resistance to American settlement in the west
What is the War of 1812?
Most liberal part of the Republican Party. Desired political, economic, and social equality for African Americans. Wanted harsh punishment for the South after the Civil War.
What are Radical Republicans?
The notion that the people of a given territory should decide whether to allow slavery.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Denied any additional Chinese laborers to enter the country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
1896 court case that validated the South's segregationist social order, ruling "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional under the "equal protection" clause of the 14th Amendment
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
53 Africans were kidnapped from West Africa and sold into the transatlantic slave trade; they were then purchased illegally by Spanish planters Jose Ruiz and Pedro Montez
What is the Amistad "incident"?
Starting in the early 19th century, produced vast economic growth, mass produced goods.
What is the Market Revolution?
A federal law that gave settlers 160 acres of land for about $30 if they lived on it for five years and improved it by, for instance, building a house on it.
What is The Homestead Act?
Uprisings during the Civil War, mostly of working-class Irish-Americans, in protest of the draft. Rioters were particularly incensed by the ability of the rich to hire substitutes or purchase exemptions.
What are the New York Draft Riots?
African American journalist. Published statistics about lynching, urged African Americans to protest by refusing to ride streetcars or shop in white owned stores
Who is Ida B. Wells?
First federal action against monopolies, it was signed into law by Harrison and was extensively used by Theodore Roosevelt for trust-busting.
They questioned the doctrines of established churches and business practices of the merchant class. Mystical and intuitive way of thinking to discover inner self and look for essence of God in nature.
What is Transcendentalism?
Established the Supreme Court's policy of judicial review
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Civil War battle in which the North succeeded in halting Lee's Confederate forces in Maryland. Was the bloodiest battle of the war resulting in 25,000 casualties
What is the Battle of Antietam?
The Mexican government gave up the area of Texas and offered to sell the provinces of California and New Mexico as a result of its defeat in the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Law which gave all Native American males 160 acres to farm and also set up schools to "Americanize" Native American children
What is the Dawes Act?
The first major company to create a "mail order catalog", changing the way stores would sell goods.
What is Sears?