Social Movements
four main movements of this period was abolition, suffrage, education, and temperance.
Second Great Awakening
The American South has traditionally been aligned with what political party, going all the way back to the time of Jefferson?
Democratic Party
What invention, intended to end the need of slavery, actually propelled it to dominate the South's economy?
The cotton gin
The idea of fearing and hatred of immigrants, especially those from southeastern Europe.
nativism
Isolationists
the following amendments fall in this period:
16, 17, 18, 19
Progressive Era
The "Corrupt Bargain" occurred in the 1824 election when who was elected?
John Quincy Adams
This changed the way people learned about political platforms, and was the greatest tool/resource for the Civil Rights movement.
television
Give the collective name for race-based laws that segregated many parts of society after Reconstruction ended in 1877.
Jim Crow laws
What treaty was signed by the US at the end of the Revolutionary War, which largely ignored French allies and involvement?
Treaty of Paris 1783
Named for its location, this 1848 assembly where women gathered and compared the lack of rights of women to the Declaration of Independence.
Seneca Falls Convention
What political party was created as a coalition backing Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 election?
The Republican Party
The Bessemer Process was used to cultivate what material that made it easier to build bigger and better things like skyscrapers, cars, and airplanes?
Steel
Sam Adams was a major part of what radical independence group in the 1770s?
The Sons of Liberty
Impressment, funding Native insurgents, and blocking European trade were the main causes of what war?
War of 1812
This movement is considered the beginning of the revolution, challenging religious and political authority
First Great Awakening
What term, coined by Mark Twain, is given to the era of politics that had many cities dominated by small groups of rich and powerful political machines?
The Gilded Age
What were the 3 parts of Henry Clay's American System?
National bank, infrastructure, tariffs
Which president proposed many social improvements in the 1960s, and called it "The Great Society"?
Lyndon Johnson
Name the 2 territories gained from Spain after the Spanish-American War?
Guam, Philippines, Puerto Rico (and Cuba, kinda)
This group was founded by college students and performed boycotts and sit-ins during the 1960s for societal change.
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
Compare the views on the constitution from the federalists vs the antifederalists
Federalists: loose constructionist/ interpretation
Anti-Federalists: strict constructionists/ interpretation
What system saw early Spanish settlers use natives to cultivate their new colonization, and in return, taught them Christianity and other Western norms?
The encomienda system
Wm. H. Harrison's campaign used what now-famous phrase, aimed at the "common man" at the time to discredit Martin Van Buren as a rich snob?
"Log Cabins and Hard Cider"
After WW2, what structure was built in Germany that became the international symbol of the Cold War?
The Berlin Wall