Final Flashcards
John Calhoun
Vice President during Jackson’s presidency, call the 1828 tariff an abomination, advocate of secession
John Brown
An abolitionist, May 24 and massacred five proslavery people. He started the riots and is the reason it was called bloody Kansas, Harpers Ferry
Stephen Douglas
Backed by Northern Democrats steered Kansas and Nebraska act to victory
Henry Clay
House speaker promoted the American system and formed the wig party
Charles Sumner
Led the radical Republicans
John Fremont
American military officer, first candidate of anti-slavery republican party for office of president
William seward
Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. Arranged for the US to buy Alaska
Roger Taney
Supreme Court Chief Justice, declared Lincoln went beyond his constitutional power
Scalawag
White southerners who joined the Republican Party after the Civil War
Sharecropper
A system in which landowners give farmworkers a landslide and tools in return for a part of the crops they raise
Infrastructure
The basic facilities services and installations needed for the functioning of the community
Tenant farmer
A system in which a farm owner supplies there tools and rent farmland for cash
14th amendment
Anyone born or naturalized in the US or citizens and get equal legal protection
15th amendment
Prohibit people from being denied voting rights due to their diversity
Steerage
A cheap accommodation in a ships cargo hold
Laissez-faire
policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering
Munn vs Illinois
Case were Supreme Court upheld state regulation of railroad for the benefit of farmers thus establishing the right of government to regulate private industry to serve the public interest
Pendleton civil service act
Law that establishes a bipartisan civil service commission to make appointments to government jobs by means of merit system
Free enterprise
Economical or political doctrine holding that a capitalist economy can regulate itself in a free we competitive market to the relationship of supply and demand with a minimum of government intervention/regulation
Centralize
To be in charge or for everything to work around you
Tenement
A multifamily urban dwelling usually overcrowded and dirty
Labor union
A group of workers to stay to gather and protect each other’s rights
Tariff of 1828
Tariff of abominations, tariff increase that seemed to southerners to be enriching the north at their expense
Patronage
And office holders power to appoint people
Alexander bell
Invented the telephone
Anarchists
Oppose all forms of government
Scabs
Workers who would replace people on strike
Samuel Morse
Invented the telegraph to place long orders quickly
George Pullman
Industrialist who manufactured cars
Election of 1864
Lincoln was seeking a second term, used Andrew Johnson as vice president candidate to get water state Democratic votes this was Lincolns biggest mistake. He ran against McClellan
Sherman antitrust act
Law intended to prevent creation of monopolies by making it illegal to establish trust that interfered with free trade
Pullman strike
Doing the panic of 1893 Hohman’s company laid off more than half of it’s employees in cups of wages without cutting housing run. They went on strike and were replaced by strikebreakers. It turned violent and troops were sent in and sided with Paulman. He fired the strikers and railroad blacklisted many
Popular sovereignty
Principle that authority of the state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through elective reps, who are the source of all the power
Successes of the reconstruction
Restore the US as a unified nation 1314 and 15th amendments were in place and some pledged loyalty to the US government
Asian immigration early 1800s
Came in small numbers many for gold and helped build railroads
Oregon Trail
A route from Independence Missouri to Oregon city used by pioneers traveling to Oregon territory. They wanted to set up schools to convert natives to Christianity
Communication revolution
Morse invented the telegraph
Bell invented the telephone
Shoals invented the typewriter
Friedmans bureau
Federal agency to help slaves after the Civil War
Adams Onis Treaty
Spain gives Florida to the US
National Republicans
No it is anti-Jacksonian party president supporters
Industrial growth and distribution of wealth
Industry and stockholders continue to grow in the north. The south is recovering from work. Labor activist seek equal distribution of wealth
Election of 1860
Lincoln won do the split party in the Democratic Party
Rutherford B Hayes 1867
Republican candidate in 1876 lost the popular vote but one electoral votes. Compromise of 1877 was a series of congress measures that Democrats demand with drawl of troops and south, money for south infrastructure, appointment of conservative Democrat in cabinet
Radical reconstruction act of 1867
Didn’t recognize state government formed under the reconstruction plans. Split 10 confederate states into five military districts, the states need to readmit as a state
