Leaders of the Early Nation
Leader of the Federalist party
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
A group of women leading a social reform movement that linked Christian principles with the goal of reducing public consumption of alcohol
What is the Women's Christian Temperance Union?
Aimed to improve the lives of the poor, primarily immigrants settle into American society
What is Settlement House?
A series of forced relocations of Native Americans involving several tribes including the Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole, resulting in thousands of deaths during their march to designated Indian Territory
What is Trail of Tears?
A policy created by Thomas Jefferson that closed U.S ports to all exports and restricted imports from Britain and France
What is Embargo Act of 1807?
The writer of the Emancipation Proclamation
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Religious movement led by the protestant clergy:
- Applying christian ethics to social issues: Urban poverty
- During 1880s-1890s
What is The Social Gospel?
Immigration policy that placed a ban on Chinese immigration in response to Western hostility to chinese presents in industrial base
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Relocation policy moving Native Americans to western territories known as reservations
What is Reservation system?
A diplomatic incident between France and the U.S that resulted in a limited undeclared war
What is the XYZ Affair?
Proposed the Virginia Plan at the Philadelphia constitutional convention, calling for a strong central government with three branches.
Who is James Madison?
A popular labor union that sought to improve working conditions through legislative reform rather than collective bargaining and strikes.
- Active during the 1880s
Agenda called for
- 8hr workday
- Abolition of child labor
- Equal pay for equal work
What is Knights of Labor Union?
Tightly organized political parties in major cities that controlled urban politics primarily with a given influx of immigrants
What is Political machines?
A law that authorized the presidents break up reservation land its a small parcels out individuals
What is the Dawes Act?
Mexican American war controversy;
- Proposed that appropriations Bill be amended to forbid slavery in any new mexican Territory
What is Wilmot Proviso
A well known Federalist favored a strong central government
Who is Ben Franklin?
Significant agrarian movements in the 1880s among American farmers to address economic abuses by railroads, banks, and grain storage companies.
What is Farmers' Alliances
A law that restricted temporary immigrant workers to protect American industrial workers
What is Contract Labor Law of 1885?
A spiritual and political movement among Native Americans that sought to restore their traditional ways and called for the retreat of white influence.
What is Ghost Dance Movement?
A Treaty negotiated with Mexico that recognized:
- Rio Grande as the southern border of Texas
- U.S possession of former Mexican province: California
What is Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The U.S minister of Spain and negotiated a treaty that opened the lower mississippi river to American trade
Who is Thomas Pickeney?
Baptist minister in NYC in hells kitchen urgent organized religion to address social issues: labor rights
- Linked Christian ethics with the Progressive movement
- Followed the Social Gospel
Who is Walter Rauschenbusch?
Nativist society that openly prejudiced Roman Catholic immigrants
What is American Protective Association?
The killing of hundreds of Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota, marking the last major confrontation in the American Indian Wars.
What is Wounded Kneed Massacre?
President James Polk's rally call to split the Oregon Territory at the 49th parallel with britain
What is "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight"