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America Historical
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| German Immigrants | headed to missouri,middle class, were eventually called latin farmers b/c they read latin and thought farming was easy. |
| Transportation Revolution | Canals were being used to transport long distances. |
| Steamboat | allowed for easy travel up and down rivers. |
| Flatboat | used to take trade goods down river to new orleans, after all goods were sold the boat was chopped up and sold for firewood and then the person would have to walk back home. |
| Canals | used to transport long distances. first canal was the Erie Canal which connected eastern NY to western NY in 1825. Big cities were located along rivers. |
| "System of 1836" | Indian spent 10 million $ to build roads, canals, railroads, ect. went into a panic and ran out of money. these projects were unable to be finished, most were never finished. |
| The Corporation | people believed it was a terrible idea, thought it was cheating, made it easier to raise $, limits liability of investors, limits liability of officers in corporation. |
| Factory System | used to be known as household prodution which made good quality expensive goods. this new way made cheap goods @ low qualities. most of the workers were farmers daughters, pay was extremely low. in 1840's shifted to irish workers. |
| Irish workers | accepted even lower wages in factories. with this the community stopped caring about working conditions. |
| Industrial Working Class | 5% of families own 50% of wealth. homeless people start showing up cause families cant take care of troubled family members. also social mobility. |
| Family as a Support Unit | used to be in a family business everyone was involved. now the father goes out and work and the mother stays home and raises kids. women begin to be viewed as they are born to stay in the kitchen. |
| Separite Spheres | Male= public (go out get a job) Female= private(stay in, raise family) |
| Missouri Compromise | 1820, compromise allowing missouri to have slaves even though they were above the ohio river line. |
| Tallmadge Amendment | James attaches amendment to missouri compromise to let missouri become a slave state giving them so many years to get rid of their slaves. Did not go anywhere in senate. |
| Thomas Amedment | stated that any state above the line had to be free excet missouri and no one else better try. part of missouri compromise. |
| Democratic Republicans | led by Andrew Jackson, changed the view of gov't. believed in small gov't. were the true democrats. |
| National Republicans | led by J.Q. Adams, used to be the federalists, believed in strong central gov't. |
| Andrew Jackson | Bad tempered and crazy. very charizmatic. had lots of vetos and controlled gov't. Battle of New Orleans made him famous. introduced era of comman man to get people involved. |
| J.Q. Adams | won election of 1824 with the corrupt bargain. Republican. |
| Whigs | The republicans who changed their name to whig because they hated jackson when he came into presidency and the whigs in britian were against the king. |
| Election Of 1824 | No majority vote, house of representatives decides who will be president. house chose adams b/c he had henry clay as se. of state, clay becomes speaker of house. |
| Election of 1828 | jackson started campaigning 4 years early. candidates were bashing ach others family lives. jackson won due his intense campaigning. |
| The "Corrupt Bargain" | 1824 election when the decision went to the house. Adams & Clay make a deal w/ each other for clay to vote for him so he will win presidency. |
| Spoils System | Jackson picked people who would help him get elected and fired those he did not like because they "killed his wife". got more people involved w/ gov't. |
| Universal Manhood Suffrage | land-owning free white men that were able to vote in 1828 election. Jackson doubled the amount of people who could vote by lowering the land requirments. |
| Popular Selection of Electors | people can vote directly for the electors (popular vote) -get more people involved. |
| The "Era of Comman Man" | also known as Jacksonian Era. Jackson tried to get more people involved. |
| Jacksons Inaugural | longest inagual speech. made it into a big party which got out of control so Jackson had to be escorted out of the White House so he wouldnt get injured. |
| National Nominating Convention | 1832 Jackson invited people from all states to vote for presidents to get more people involved in choosing who was going to run for presidency. |
| Indian Removal | Jackson was supporting the states. gold was found in georgia so georgia tried to kick the indians out. Cherokees said they dont follow georgia rule so they take argument to the senate who agrees with the cherokees. jackson sends army to remove indians. |
| John Calhoun | Jacksons VP, created pamphlet to send to S.C. telling them to nullify taxes. |
| The Bank War | Jackson hated it, the senete has to rechater it in 1832 but he vetos it so it dies. Jackson splits up money & sends it to nation banks. |
| Role of Women in reform | women started almost every reform movement. |
| Temperance Movement | getting people to drink less in the 1830's. factory owners had to start getting involved for reform to take off. after 1840 American temperance society tried to abolish drinking. |
| American Colonization Society | idea of freeing slaves and colonizing them by sending them to Africa which would gradually abolish slavery. this does not happen, most do not go to Africa. 1817. |
| American Antislavery Society | Helped to create colonization to end slavery. Started by Garrison had about 2000 members mostly from the Boston area. Liberty part said they would have no new slaves but free soil. |
| Abolitionist Movement | wanted to abolish slavery comepleatly |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Created American antislavery Society, wanted to abolish slavery. |
| Manifest Destiny | Idea of Americans to move west. and expend across the continent. |
| Oregan Controversy | 1830s, north was owned by Britian, South was owned by America. |
| Winfield Scott | invades mexico city and ended up fighting Ninos Heroes |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | US gained 1/3rd of territory (southwest), got cash trade of 15 million, led to controversies over what happens with the land. |
| The wilmot Proviso | Stated no slavery in new terriotory. passed through senate. 1848 majority of northerners & congrass voted for it but it does not become law. it will eventually become the North position in 1848. |
| California Gold Rush | people moved to california due to gold rush. 60000 people moved there w/ in 3-4 months. they had enogh people to become state. |
| Compromise of 1850 | States: cali admitted as free state 2. slave trade prohibited in Washington DC 3. new and tough fugitive slave law 4. position on slavery up to the territories in the mexican recession. was split up into 4 parts to get it to pass through senate. |
| Fugitive Slave Law | Hires federal officals (marshalls) to walk around and find slaves. magistrate decides if they are run aways and decides their punishment. |
| Stephan Douglas | wants a RR to run from chicago to Califoria, wanted to call unorganized territory Nebraska so they could hae a gov't and a RR. 1854 runs for president and losses. split the compromise. |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | North did not support Douglas. South did as long as thier was 2 changes: 1. have 2 territories kansas and nebraska 2. have territories open to slavery by popular soverignty. passed in 1854. |
| Free Soil, Free Labor | founding of republican party. whigs disappear after kansas nebraska act. Free soil- no new slave states and Free labor- decion to work anywhere an oppertunity to advance. |
| the Proslavery Atchison | good for the slaves, said that slaves were better off then northern factory workers. said slavery was the only way to have peace btwn blacks and whites. this was the southern way of life. |
| Senator David Atchison | responsible for getting kansas to vote to be a slave state, brought thousands of missourians to kansas to stuff the ballot box to make kansas a proslavery state. |
| Bleeding Kansas | becomes the battle ground btwn proslavery and antislavery forces to decide if it was going to be a free or slave state. many people died, happpened in 1846. war between kansas and missouri. |
| Sumner- Brooks Affair | brooks gets mad at sumner for what he says to his uncle so he goes to his office and beats sumner with his cane until it breaks and then walks out. sumner ends up with brain damage and brooks get kicked out of house. becomes very popular in south. |
| Uncle Toms Cabin | 1852 written by harriet beacher Stowe. northerners began to see that slaves were people to and be gan to sympathize for them. it was about a slave family being broken up & the horrible lifestyle set upon them. |
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