Mexican American War
President of Mexico during the Texas Revolution, changed the constitution in Mexico in 1835
Who was Antonio López de Santa Anna?
When labor was split into different areas, cutting out artisans
What is the division of Labor
Aimed to move southern tribes to the west of the Mississippi
What was the Indian removal act
To restore morality by reducing the intake of alcohol
What was the Benevolent empire
The north focused on manufacturing, the south on agriculture, they relied on free labor and slave labor respectively
What were the two economies?
13-day siege after texas declared independence from Mexico
What was the Alamo?
Skilled craftsmen who invented and improved tools for industry
what were mechanices?
Battle between colonial Custer and the Native Americans, is often called Custer's last stand.
What was the battle of little bighorn?
They sought to curb the consumption of alcohol
American temperance society
Farmers, merchants, and lawyers, all part of an emerging class, had deep roots in republican motherhood
What was the middle class?
the United States agreed to pay Mexico $15 million in return for more than one-third of its territory
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Came to the US to replicate British machines and often considered the "Father of the American Revolution"
Who was Samual Slater?
1890 confrontation between the U.S. cavalry and Sioux that marked the end of Native resistance (Sitting Bull killed)
What was the battle of wounded knee?
Social reformer who campaigned for women's rights, temperance, and abolitionism
Who was Susan B. Anthony?
Hands-off style of government in the economy
What was laissez-faire economics?
Sought to ban slavery in Mexican Cession (failed)
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
The practice of backing a country’s currency with its reserves of gold.
What is the gold standard?
Leader of the Nez Perce Natives. Fled with his tribe to Canada instead of reservations. However, US troops came and fought and brought them back down to reservations
Who was chief Joseph?
Civil Rights activist on behalf of the mentally ill
Who was Dorthea Dix
A system used on southern farms after the Civil war in which farmers worked on land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops
What was sharecropping?
U.S. acquisition of land south of the Gila River from Mexico for $10 million; the land was needed for a possible transcontinental railroad line through the souther United States. However, the route was never used.
What was the Gadson purchase?
The system of recruiting young women and providing them harsh room and board, as a means of cheap labor. Provided some sort of independence for women during this time.
What is the Waltham Lowell system?
Supreme Court ruled that Native Americans were "an ignorant and dependant race" and "wards of the state" so, therefore, had no rights and the government was able to revoke all treaties
What was Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock?
Transcendentalist who argued for women's social independence
Who was Margaret Fuller
The plan proposed by Henry Clay that focused heavily on the government's involvement in infrastructure and revenue
What was the American System?