period 4
Which transportation revolution allowed for the industrialization of America?
Railroads
Ending the war with Mexico, Mexico seceded from the territory from Texas to Organ.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Aided newly freed slaves by providing food, clothes, medical, education, and legal support.
Freedmen's Bureau.
At the turn of the 20th century a reform movement led by Protistant ministers used religious text to get better living conditions and housing for the poor. It was linked with the settlement housing movement.
Social Gospel
6 million African Americans moved in 2 waves from rural south to metroploitan morth and west. More that 1.5 million migrated to Northern cities after WW1 and the great depression.
Great migration
What ethnic cleansing through forced migration did President Andrew Jackson approve?
Trail of Tears
Brought in California as a free state and opened Utah and New Mexico to popular sovereignty. It ended the slave trade, but not slavery, and introduced a more severe fugitive slave.
COmpromise of 1850
Lincolns' speech at the Gettysburg Battlefield Cemetary dedication framed the war as a way to keep the values of liberty.
Gettysburg Address
A policy of minimal government interference in individuals private economic endevors.
Laissez-Faire
British passenger that, on May 7, 1915, was torpedoed by Germany and sank it brought the US one step closer to war and claimed the lives of 1198 people including 128 Americans.
Lusitania
A type of voting where an adult white man could vote regardless of property, income, or religion.
Universal White Male sufferage
What slogan states the US had to claim all the territory up to the 54 degree 40 minus North of the parallel or they would have to fight Great Britain for the land.
54 40 or fight.
States Slaves in the seceded South were now free. This caused many slaves to flee to the North and closed any compromise potential with the South.
Emancipation Proclamation
Battle erupted between the US Army and Dakota Sionx over the Sioux "Ghost Dance"which was outlawed by the US government and whether the Sioux reservation land wound be broken up from the Dawes Act. This battle resulted in 29 Americans dying and 200 native Americans.
Battle of Wounded Knee
A fierce fire started in the triangle shirtwaist factory in NYC claimed 146 workers lives. This caused a lot of indenation and led to wide spread legislation on workplace saftey.
Traiangle Shirtwaiste Fire
A failed uprising in Virginia in 1831 to violently end slavery. Over 60 white people were killed including babies.
Nat Turner Rebellion
Desition by the Supreme Court that stated slaves were property and weren't citizens; and that slavery was protected under by the federal government.
Dred Scott VS Stanford
Confederate forces fire the first shot of the Civil War. The Union did not fire back because Lincoln still wanted to maintain peace.
Fort Sumter
The act that served Indian reservations; giving land to individuals households. Excess money was gainned fromland that was sold to fund US government efforts to "civilize" Native Americans.
Dawes Act
Young reporters in the early 1900's increased magazines sales writing exposes about pervasive coorporation in th US. They pushed for the enactment of reform laws by addressing issues of child labor, white slavery, business manipulation, and the unlawful activites of trusts.
Muckrackers
1832-1833 conflict between the Federal government and South Carolina for the former attempts to declare the Federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 illegal inside the state.
Nulification Crisis
An amendment that tried to prohibit slavery from territory acquired from the new land from Mexico.
Wilmot proviso
Uprising of typically Irish working class-men over the draft. Rich men could pay their way out of the draft and be replaced usually by an Irish man.
New York Draft Riots.
The propprietors of the Union Pacific Railroad established a construction business in order to get governmental contracts for building railroads at exaggerated costs and profits. Journalist learned that polititians were bought off and the event turns into a scandel.
Credit Mobilier
3 powers pushed for political changes to give citizens more control over local and state governments and deprive political machines of their athority.
Initiavtive, referendum, recall