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Stack #125864
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the first labor unions were formed by | skilled craftspeople |
| Closed shop | a place of employment open only to union members |
| First women's strike | occured in 1824 among the weavers of Pawtucket, Rhode Island |
| Mechanics lien laws | required that the wages owed to workers be the first payments a bankrupt employer would have to make |
| several states passed laws limiting... | the workday to 10 hours |
| Western Land Policy | favored cheap land, rapid settlement and "squatters' rights" |
| Eastern Land Policy | were opposed to such policies for fear the West would draw off their labor supply |
| Southern Land Policy | plantation owners wanted lands opened for sale but were opposed to "squatters' rights" |
| Eastern Farmers Land Policy | convinced that cheap western lands would result in unfair competition |
| Protective Tariff(Northern) | favored prot. tar. to ensure that american factories could compete successfully with foreign manufactures |
| Protective tariff(Southern) | came to realize that their region would not become a manufacturing center |
| Money(West) | was in favor of using federal money for roads, canals, etc. |
| Money(south) | had a fine river system already in place fofr transporation so they opposed it |
| Money(Northeast) | favored internal improvements like roads and canals, because tariffs would be required to pay for them |
| Slavery(North and West) | felt slavery was a moral wrong; conceded that southern states had a right to maintain slavery where it already existed, but protested it should not be allowed to be extended to the territories |
| Slavery(Southeners) | meant that no new slave states could be formed and the political power of the south would decrease |
| Missouri Compromise | Missouri applied for admission to the Union as a slave state and Maine applied as a free state. |
| Missouri Compromise was made by | Henry Clay |
| Tallmadge Amendment | slaver would gradually be ended in an area where it already existed |
| In unsettled portion of the Louisiana Purchase, slavery would be forbidden.. | north of the parallel 36 degree 30 degree, a line running west from the southern boundary of Missouri |
| Jeffersonian Republican party | because of struggle between sectional interest and personalities, the republican party broke apart |
| candiates from West | Henry Clay and Andrew Jackson |
| New England Candidate | John Quincy Adams |
| South candidate | William Crawford |
| John C. Calhoun | withdrew from the race early and ran for v.p. |
| House of Reps | decided the outcome of the election because no candidate had a majority lead |
| House of Reps(2) | Adams receives 13 votes to Jackson's 7 while Crawford had 4. (dropped out before because of a stroke) |
| Jackson and his supporters saw that | an anonyous letter to the nespapers charged that Clay was given the job as the result of a "corrupt bargain." |
| National Republicans | favored a strong role for federal governemtn in funding |
| Jacksonians, soon to be called Democrats | favored a less powerful federal government |
| Pan-American Congress | called by Simon Bolivar and U.S. was not represented |
| whig and democratic parties were.. | formed in 1830's |
| "black belt" | rich black soil of Mississippi and Alabama, and in the rich bottom tributaries |
| 1817 slave owners in Virginia, Maryland and Kentucky formed | the American Colonization Society, whose purpose was to plant colonies of freed slaves back in Africa, the home of the slaves' ancestors |
| Eli WHitney | created the cottin gin in 1793 |
| cotton gin | processed cotton quickly, cheaply, and efficiently. |
| "Cotton is king" | was a common southern phrase that accurately reflected the importance of cotton to the South's economy |
| cencus of 1820 | revealed that one-fourth of the U.S. livedwest of the appalachians |
| Harriet Martineau | made an extended tour of the U.S. from 1834-1836 |
| Sauk cheif black hawk | cheif for Indians in 1832 |
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