APUSH 1
Movement to end slavery
Abolition
Movement of people from rural areas to cities
Urbanization
The philosophy which focused on, individualism, romanticism, and connecting with nature.
Transcendentalism
The factories where cloth is made. This is where the Industrial Revolution first began in the US
Textile mills
A religious revivals movement rooted in the powerful emotional message about how hard work, individual achievement, and devotion to God can better your life, also inspired reform in the antebellum period
Second Great Awakening
Areas of federal land set aside for Native Americans
Reservations
American abolitionist and writer. He escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer.
Frederick Douglass
a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in the North and required their return to slaveholders
Fugitive Slave Act
violet incident at a workers' rally held in Chicago; political radicals and labor leaders called the rally to support a strike. When police tried to break it up, a bomb was thrown into their midst, killing 8. The incident hurt the Knights of Labor.
Haymarket Riot
Established the Standard Oil Company. Revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy.
John D Rockefeller
The industrialists or big business owners who gained huge profits by paying their employees extremely low wages. They also drove their competitors out of business by selling their products cheaper than it cost to produce it.
Robber Barons
A notion held by Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.
Manifest Destiny
1859 Plan to break into a federal arsenal and arm the slaves. The plan failed and the leader was executed.
John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry
(1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) slave trade abolished in DC, and (4) new fugitive slave law; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas
Compromise of 1850
For women's rights, especially women's suffrage. Organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Modeled requests after the Declaration of Independence
Seneca Falls Convention
favoring the interests of American born people over foreign-born people
Nativism
The major change in the US economy produced by people's beginning to buy and sell goods rather than make them for themselves
Market Revolution
The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion.
Social Darwinism
Referred to the perceived political power held by American slaveowners in the federal government of the United States during the Antebellum period.
Slave Power
Prominent black American, born into slavery, who believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society, was head of the Tuskegee Institute in 1881. His book "Up from Slavery."
Booker T Washington
Single bloodiest day of the American Civil War; Union victory that turned back a Confederate invasion of the North. Allowed Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
Battle Of Antietam
Standardized an exam for federal employees so that people were awarded jobs on merit rather than political affiliations; also made it illegal to remove federal employees without just cause.
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Deal in which Hayes was awarded the presidency in exchange for the permanent removal of federal troops from the South. This ended Reconstruction.
Compromise of 1877
Encouraged African Americans to resist systems of segregation and discrimination. Founder of the Niagara Movement which led to the creation of the NAACP in 1910
WEB DuBois
The south is divided into 5 districts with the union general leading each district, the rewriting of the state's constitution and putting in the 13,14,15th amendment.
Reconstruction Plan of 1867
Nationwide labor union that was open to all workers. The union reached its peak in 1886 before beginning a decline in membership. Led by Terence Powderly. Included African-Americans and women
Knights of Labor
Idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs.
Laissez-Faire
1870s - 1890s; time period looked good on the outside, despite the corrupt politics & growing gap between the rich & poor
Gilded Age
this allowed a settler to acquire 160 acres by living on it for five years, improving it and paying about $30
Homestead Act
A member of the women's right's movement in 1840. She advocated suffrage for women at the first Women's Right's Convention.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton