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05/07/2009

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Term
andrew jackson
Definition
first non-virginian, non-adams president
-war hero
-hated indians
-kitchen cabinet
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maysville road veto
Definition
federal gov't doesn't pay for internal improvements- no road in Kentucky
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indian removal
Definition
move indians to West of Mississippi
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Peggy Eaton affair
Definition
Eaton, secretary of war, has affair with married woman.
Term
Worcester vs. Georgia/ Cherokee nation vs. Georgia
Definition
Can't kick Cherokees out
Jackson ignores/ Fed gov't can regulate Indians
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Antimasonic Party
Definition
First Third party - against rich/ secretive masons
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South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification
Definition
will ignore tariffs - S. Carolina threatens to leave
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Compromise tariff
Definition
reduces tarriffs slowly- S. Carolina happy
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Force Bill
Definition
Jackson can use military to collect tariffs - irrelevant but nullified by S. Carolina
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Whig Party
Definition
anti-jackson "king" - whig/Tories from old- 1832 first election Henry Clay
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Martin Van Buren
Definition
leader of New York rich Albany REgency
- president - got rid of National Bank
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Charles River Bridge vs. Warren Bridge
Definition
private companies have to act to benefit public
-toll vs. public bridge
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"Trail of Tears"
Definition
forcible removal of Cherokees
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Independent Treasury Act
Definition
Vaults of American money in various cities
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William Henry Harrison
Definition
Tippecanoe and Tyler too and "log cabin and cider"
-dishonest campaigns
Term
Nat Turner
Definition
1831 Slave uprising killed 60 whites
- led stricter fugitive slave laws
-united South
Term
Lowell System
Definition
1814 cloth factory = lowell girls
-lived in boarding houses and worked in factories
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commonwealth vs. hunt
Definition
trade unions aren't conspiracies
Term
German and Irish immigration
Definition
heavy drinkers, labor force, bad economies in Europe (potato famine)
Germans set US moral character
Term
CLipper ships
Definition
fast, tall
-trade w/ china
Term
Transatlantic cable/ telegraph
Definition
submarine cable 1856
Term
Perry/ Japan
Definition
1853- japanese impressed/ intimidated
-open port
Term
2nd great awakening
Definition
Northeast - spread through revivals
Term
reform movements
Definition
attempt to improve society for all
penitentiaries, asylums, orphanages,
society welfare
Term
utopian movements
Definition
social-religious equality
Term
oneida
Definition
new york- polygamy, communal property &raising of children
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Brook farm
Definition
massachusetts
Term
Women's Rights
Seneca Falls
Definition
1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony
-turned away from abolitionsist movement in London
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Shakers
Definition
Broke from Quakes, woman equal, isolated communities, celibacy, shared work, focus on after life
Term
temperance union
Definition
prohibition alcohol & gambling, lotteris, prostitution
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American Antislavery Society
Definition
1833, Northern Abolitionist movement
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Horace Mann
Public Education
Definition
Mass.
First Public school system - based on prussia
Term
Liberty Party
Definition
1844 First Abolitionist party
Term
Mormon church
Definition
Brigham Young, Polygamy, strong social order, persecuted, feared as economic, political, social block
Term
Emerson and Thoreau
Definition
Transcendentalism
Term
Elizabeth Blackwell
Definition
First woman with med. degree
Term
Texas secedes from Mexico
Definition
1835-36 Declared independence, alamo, defeated Santa Anna at SAn Jacinto
Term
John Tyler
Definition
protectice tariff, Tippecanoe
Term
Webster- Ashburton Treaty
Definition
1842 boundaries of Maine/ great lakes
Term
James Polk
Definition
promoted manifest destiny
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Annexation of Texas 1845
Definition
Texas Enters union
Term
Slidell Mission
Definition
Minister to Mexico
went to pay for Cali./mexico but X
Term
Oregon treaty
Definition
held jointly with britains after 1818
1846 Polk takes it back
Term
Wilmot Proviso
Definition
suggested part of Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty ($ to mexico for land) barred slavery
Term
Manifest Destiny
Definition
john O. Sullivan - God wants coast to coast nation
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Mexican - American war
Definition
Annexation of Texas, Rio Grande catalyst, Zachary Taylor wins, invades Mexico city, get southwest land.
Term
"Spot Resolutions"
Definition
Abraham Lincoln wants to know exact spot US troops fired on at Rio, suspects it was a fabricated catalyst
Term
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Definition
For winning war, US gets, CA, AZ, CO, NM, UT, NV
-gold discovered few monthes later
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Zachary Taylor
Definition
Gained fame fighting Mexico, PRES
Term
Gold in Cali
Definition
John Sutter, 1848
Term
Free - soil party
Definition
New political party opposes Slavery in Territories
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Compromise of 1850
Definition
South: Tough fugitive slave laws, UT/NM no restrictions, Nrth: CA, DC X
Term
Millard Filmore
Definition
Whig party 1848 pres election
Term
Fugitive Slave Act
Definition
returning slaves to Sotuh
North ignore 1793 law
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Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
Definition
US/ Britain agree to not control Panaman Canal - ignored by US in 1881
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Know-nothing party
Definition
opposed immigration/ catholics
Term
kansas-nebraska act
Definition
1854 repealed Missouri compromise
POPULAR SOVERIGNTY
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Ostend manifesto
Definition
$20 million for Cuba offered, defeated due to fear as slave state
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Pottawatomie Creek
Definition
john brown massacres proslavery sympathizers
northerners look crazy
Term
US vs. Knight Co
Definition
monopoly on sugar legal because it doesn't affect interstate trade
Term
interstate commerce act
Definition
creates interstae commerce commission to regulate transportation of goods/ people
Term
sherman antitrust act
Definition
1890- attempt to prevent monopolies
illegal contracts, conspiracies- not enforced by executive
Term
wabash case
Definition
states control business in state, congress controsl interstate
railroad cases
Term
Munn vs. illinois
Definition
interstate commerce can regulate prices
Term
standard oil
Definition
Rockefeller's oil monoploy
Term
union pacific and central pacific
Definition
promontory point
-two railroads met
transcontinental
overcharged gov't with inferior materials
Term
bessemer process
Definition
removed air from iron = steel
Term
wounded knee massacre
Definition
1890 siioux women, children, elderly massacred
Term
Helen Hunt Jackson / a century of dishonor
Definition
muckraking book tells of poor indian treatment
Term
Homestead Act
Definition
1862 - free land if you settle and develop
some just put a foot large house on to cheat system
Term
Plessy vs. ferguson
Definition
supreme court - train car rider, pushes case,
ruled seperate but equal
"segregation"
Term
atlanta exposition/ compromise
Definition
washing gives speech urging vocational education
Term
booker t. washington
Definition
founder tuskegee - blacks better selves through education - be realistic
Term
compromise of 1877
Definition
hayes ends reconstruction, promises to help south
he gets election
Term
Rutherford B. Hayes
Definition
Wins elecion 1876
Term
Whiskey Ring
Definition
grant officials illegally import whiskey to avoid taxes
Term
greenback party
Definition
from West from South - want money inflated to pay off debts
Term
credit mobilier scandal
Definition
railroad company taking money and using illegally
sold stock to congressman
Term
amnesty act
Definition
pardoned rebel southerners, could reenter public life
Term
Boss Tweed/ tammany hall
Definition
political "boss" that controlled NY - brought down by THOMAS NAST
Term
Fisk-Gould scandal
Definition
brothers in law of Grant - illegally made $ gold
Term
Ulysses S. Grant
Definition
former US general, corrupt administration w/ friends/ relatives,
honest man but CORRUPT
Term
impeachment of Johnson
Definition
failed by 1 vote, getting in way of Reconstrution
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tenure of office act
Definition
pres. johnson can't remove fed. workers
sec. war stanton -rad. republ. keep reconstructing
Term
civil rights act
Definition
prohibited discrimination in public places - supreme court says illegal
Term
black codes
Definition
attempt to keep slaves in pre-civil war status
controlled movement, behavior, job possibilities
Term
13, 14, 15 amendment
Definition
slaves - freed citizenship voting
15th not agreed to by all north. states, but souther pushed through
Term
freedman's bearau
Definition
food, clothing, school, job assistance for freed slaves
Term
wade-davis bill
Definition
congress should be able to control southern reconstruction not president
LINCOLN VETO
Term
emancipation proclamation
Definition
frees all slaves in seceding states - gives war moral calling
no slaves actually freed yet
Term
Lincoln's proclamatoin of amnesty and reconstruction
Definition
10% of citizens take oath of allegiance and agree to 13th and they can become state again
Term
Appomattox court house
Definition
surrender of South - lee and troops allowed to keep guns
Term
sherman's march
Definition
total war- sherman leaves supply lines and destroys everything in path
Term
trent affair
Definition
british/confederate troops captured on boat
Lincoln has to compromise to not tick off Brits
Term
The Confederate States of America
Definition
formed after S. states secede
JEFFERSON DAVIS
Term
fort sumter
Definition
federal fort fired upon after refusing to surrender
catalyst to civil war
Term
abraham lincoln
Definition
"a house divided against itself can not stand"
SAVE UNION
Term
harper's ferry
Definition
1859 John Brown at arsenal
wants to invade south w/ help of slaves
captured/killed/becomes martyr
Term
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Definition
lincoln-stephen debate slavery territory issues - Douglas wins Senate, Lincoln PRES
Term
DRED SCOTT vs. sanford
Definition
missouri slave sues for freedom, Taney(s.court) says he's not valid
Term
james buchanan
Definition
southern states secede, lame duck buchanan does nothing
Term
brooks-sumner incident
Definition
sumner beaten with cane after criticizing south for slavery = prostitution
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