1800-1848
Major slave expansion compromise and the focal point of tension over expansion in 1820.
Missouri
Westward expansion and manifest destiny brings the US in direct armed conflict with this nation.
Mexico
Act that limited or banned people from China.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Seneca Falls to the Progressive Era women workers who assisted immigrants.
Settlement Houses
This "compromise" expanded the Fugitive Slave Act's enforcement powers, requiring all persons to assist in the recapture of escaped slaves.
Compromise of 1850
This movement in the 1830s and 1840s was notable because it contained women who were outspoken
Abolition
When was the first transcontinental railroad completed?
1860s
Belief that new immigrants could not assimilate, had different religion and customs and could not practice democracy.
Nativism
America's attempts to rebuild Europe, after WWII, were most similar to which incident in Periods 4-6?
Reconstruction
Hostility towards them increases because they speak different languages, have different religions, appear to drive down wages by working for less, and had little to know experience or affection for our system of government.
Immigrants
Reform movement that emphasized personal salvation.
Great Awakening
Another phrase used to describe people that did not want slavery to expand to the new territories. It even was the basis for a small political party that inspired the formation of the Republican Party.
Free Soil
Supreme Court case, notorious for constitutionally upholding de jure segregation.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Increasing Nativist sentiment in the Nineteenth Century is most relevant to an exploration of it in this decade of the Twentieth Century.
Throughout history, who has been most hostile to environmental regulation?
Businesspeople
The debate over this and its increase in the 1820s dominated political discourse.
Tariffs
Inspired by the Declaration of Independence, women wrote the Declaration of Sentiments at this convention.
Seneca Falls
Intellectuals, businessmen, and popular culture championed this type of economy in the late nineteenth century.
Laissez Faire/Capitalism/Free Enterprise
Arguably impacting women's roles in the abolitionist, temperance, or suffrage movement. Who was the colonial era woman who challenged society?
Anne Hutchinson
This tech development led a revolution in transportation and shipping goods, though it had its drawbacks, including driving farming prices down.
Railroad
Women in the early nineteenth century were seen as the morally superior person and therefore had the primary responsibility of educating children.
Republican Motherhood
This notorious case held that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional, that African Americans could never be citizens, and inspired the formation of the Republican Party.
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Agricultural workers in the south - mainly associated with free slaves.
Sharecroppers
What aspect of Manifest Destiny is most similar to early colonization? Conflict with __________ __________
Native Americans
These were found mostly in cities and were notorious for their corruption in the way they ran the government. Tammany Hall was the most famous.
Political Machines