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| aka the American Party; major political force from 1854-1855; objective: to extend period of naturalization, undercut immigrant voting strengths, and keep aliens in their place |
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| a landmark ruling of the ma supreme court establishing the legality of labor unions and the legality of union workers striking if an employer hired non-union workers. case heard by the massachusetts supreme court. the case was the first judgement in the u.s. that recognized that the conspiracy law is inapplicable to unions and that strikes for a closed shop are legal. also decided that unions are not responsible for the illegal acts of their members. |
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| a drastic change in the manual labor system originating in south (but was soon moved to the north) and later spread to the entire world. Traditional commerce became outdated with the transportation and industrail revolution. As a result, the north started to have a more powerful economy that was starting to challenge the economies of some mid-sized European cities at the time. |
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| Considered father of American industrial revolution because he brought British textile technology, rather illegally, to America |
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| Inventor of the cotton gin, interchangeable parts, and the milling machine |
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| Contributor to invention of one-wire telegraph, co-inventor of morse code |
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| Inventor of the first American steamboat |
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| Governor of New York, responsible for construction of Erie Canal |
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| the idea that the US is destined to spread across the continent |
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| "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight |
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| An aggressive slogan adopted in the Oregon boundary dispute, a dispute over where the border between Canada and Oregon should be drawn. This was also Polk's slogan- the Democrats' wanted the U.S. border drawn at the 54'40" latitude. Polk settled for the 49 latitude in 1846 |
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| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
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| (1848) Ended Mexican-American War; Mexico gave up all claims to land from Texas to California for $15 million |
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| (1846) Congressman David Wilmot (Penns.) introducted this controversial amendment stating any lands won would be closed to slavery |
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| Took office after the death of William Henry Harrison in 1841. He was a democrat but was swayed by his adoptive Whig Party. He signed a law to end the independent treasury but he vetoed attempts to create a Fiscal Bank. "His accidency". |
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| Campaign of 1844 which was based mostly off the idea of Manifest Destiny. Won because of Liberty Party which stole votes from Clay. 5 goals= Walker Tariff, Restoration of Independent Treasury, California, Oregon |
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| an individual, often the overseer, charged with maintaining acceptable order and attitude among the slaves, frequently employ violent means to enforce compliance |
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| Rebellion in which Nat Turner led a group of slaves through Virginia in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow and kill planter families |
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| A Society that thought slavery was bad. They would buy land in Africa and get free blacks to move there. One of these such colonies was made into what now is Liberia. Most sponsors just wanted to get blacks out of their country. |
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| An anti-slavery newspaper written by William Lloyd Garrison. It drew attention to abolition, both positive and negative, causing a war of words between supporters of slavery and those opposed. |
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| 1805-1879. Prominent American abolitionist, journalist and social reformer. Editor of radical abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator", and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. |
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| American Anti-Slave Society |
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| founded in 1833 by william lloyd garrison and other abolitionists. garrison burned the constitution as a proslavery document. argued for "no union with slaveholders" until they repented for their sins by freeing their slaves. |
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| Narrative of the Life of a Slave, Fredrick Douglass |
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| Influencial writer. one of the most prominent african american figures in the abolitionist movement. escaped from slavery in maryland. he was a great thinker and speaker. published his own antislavery newspaper called the north star and wrote an autobiography that was published in 1845. |
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| A network of abolitionists that secretly helped slaves escape to freedom by setting up hiding places and routes to the North. Harriet Tubman is a key person to its success. |
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