Hist 381 Exam 1 Flashcards

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Enlightenment

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1715 and 1789 ideas that science have more authority over mankind than religious ideas

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Whig

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the name of republicans that saw monarchy as bad and associated freedom with individualism

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John Locke

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middle 17th century that promoted whig ideals and believed it was inappropriate for church to force itself on people

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Zenger

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in 1734 printed an article that was against the crown and wasn’t convicted of the crime by a jury

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Stamp Act

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1765 had to be printed on embossed paper appeared because of rebellion

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Sons of Liberty

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1765 organized controlled protests against the english and used liberty poles

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Liberty pole

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used by sons of liberty to have non violent protest

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Townsend Act

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1767 and 1768 english on taxes on various things like tea and food..

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Radicalism

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the idea of creating a meaningful change the fundamentals and structure of society

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populism

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ideology that the most important people are the ordinary people and the skepticism of those who have power

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Shays Rebellion

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1786 and 1787 farmers were growing angry because crop prices were so low and mad at shop/ merchants calling in debts and so they organized and marched

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Virgina Plan

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1787 proposed by conservatives that called for a strong national government and was the first document to suggest a separation of powers into executive, legislative, and judicial branches and two legislative houses

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New Jersey Plan

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1787 the idea proposed that advocated one legislative house, membership in which would be equal for all states.

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Great Compromise

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1787 the solution to the conflict between Virginia and new jersey plans that created the electoral college and delegates are formed

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Federalist

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a party which is a group of people that wanted a strong central government/ national bank/modeled after england and are facilitates capitalism/ liked by Hamilton

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Anti-federalist

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group of people that advocates for not a strong government and the reason for the first amendments of the bill of rights

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Jeffersonian Republicans

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a party which is a group of people that wanted France to become the trading partner and westward expansion and state autonomy

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Jays Treaty

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1795 a policy that made england the U.S’s number one trading partner

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Alien and Sedition Act

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1798 limited free speech/press that was discriminating towards immigrants and gave the power to imprison people for saying false things about the government

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Whiskey Rebellion

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1791 was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 during the presidency of George Washington. The so-called “whiskey tax” was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by the newly formed federal government

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Andrew Jackson

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1829-1837 the president that was a populist president/ promoted indian removal and had a new way of government of not being polite and being harsh and tough

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Jacksonian Democracy

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came from the Jeffersonian republic and was a new style of government

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partisan spectle

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the idea where you don’t just join a party but you outwardly support and march for your party

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nat turners rebellion

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a revolt led by a slave that killed 55 white men and women in plantations to create chaos

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William Lloyd Garrison

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middle 19th century a man who established newspaper “the liberator” about abolitionists that tried to convince Christians that slavery was morally wrong

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second great awakening

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early 19th century this movement started on the frontier/ protestant which helped spread the word of god and men find their place in the new economy

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moral swasion

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churches aimed to change the nation by pointing out what was immoral of slavery/sins

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Theodore Dwight Weld

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1830 through 1844, a man influenced by Finney, that thought it was not right to not include African Americans in the brotherhood and created the American Anti-Slavery Society and the lane rebels

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Lane Rebels

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1817 created by Theodore weld which was an anti-slavery association

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Frederick Douglas

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middle 19th century freeman in the north that was an important figure in abolitionist movement and did protest literature

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Reconstruction Amendments

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13th (ended slavery) 14th (full citizenship rights) 15th (right to vote)

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Fugitive Slave Act

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1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory

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Grimke Sisters

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mid 19th century abolitionist women that were influenced by the liberator

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Angelina Grimke

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mid 19th century first women public speaker against slavery and believed in the morality of the Christianity of the south and southern women

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Lydia Maria Childe

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mid 19th century a poet and novelist that published the “frugal housewife” and preached about anti-slavery and intermixing ideas

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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late 18th century woman who created the first document about women’s rights

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Frances Wright

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early mid 19th century created a farm for slaves and promoted “Free love” and causes for birth control

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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mid 19th century fought for women’s rights and against coverture and partnered with Lucretia Mott to create the Seneca falls convention and drafted the declaration of sentiments

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Lucria Mott

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mid 19th century partnered with elizabeth cady stanton on the Seneca falls convention and the declaration of sentiments

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Seneca Falls convention

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1848 the gathering of women and a few man advocating for women’s rights and where all but one of the declaration of sentiments got passed.

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Coverture

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a practice by which women had no property rights (only through men)

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declaration of sentiments

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1848 based on the declaration of rights which included right to property, child custody, higher education, and full participation in religious activities

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Firebreathers

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early advocates for disunion included (Robert Rhett, Edmund Ruffin/ William Gauncy/ and Preston Brooks- who beat a senator for denouncing slavery)

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Nullification

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the idea of state’s rights and a doctrine that upheld federal laws as null or void in state’s laws

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Missouri Compromise

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1819 policy that said Utah wasn’t a state, California could be a free state and north had to enact fugitive slave act

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birth of a nation

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1915 movie that promoted racist images of African Americans and showed the formation of the KKK

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lost cause

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the myth promoted by southerners that the loss of civil war was a military loss but a moral win

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daughters of the confederacy

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founded in 1894, promote southern pride and the “lost cause”, and had campaigns to reshape history books and the war name change

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poll tax

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the law that said you had to pay to vote

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plessy v ferguson

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1896 case that settled the law that said as long as institutions and facilities were equal they could be segregated

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jim crowe

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late 19th century the laws to segregate facilities

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black male rapist

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the ideology that developed about sexuality and that white women were forbidden fruit and black man couldn’t control themselves

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ida b wells

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1890s a journalist that wrote compelling and dangerous essays about anti-lynching

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jesse daniel ames

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early mid 20th centurywoman active in women’s rights and created the “Association of southern women against Lynching” that dispelled the myth that women needed protection by lynching violence

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Association of Southern Women Against Lynching

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1930 dispelled the myth that women needed protection by lynching violence

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Workman’s prayers to the masses

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1894 a parody that showcased the servitude of laborers towards the gods (or wealthy corporation heads) and degrading the philanthropy of Carnegie

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Guilded Age

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1870s to about 1900 nickname for the period of wealth disparity and extreme money and extreme poverty

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knights of labor

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1869 group that wanted to create a brotherhood or skilled and unskilled workers and wanted ownership with ceos of the corporations and benefits

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pinkerton agency

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1850 hires spies to infiltrate union and businesses to report back to businesses so they could fire trouble makers

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1886 mccormick protest

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protest at haymarket that ended up killing multiple people because a mysterious bomb went off

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anarchy

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movement that believed in no government rule

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samuel gompers

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late 19th century

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AFL

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founded in 1886, by samuel gompers which gathered skilled workers

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IWW

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founded in 1905, that wanted a “labor democracy” that was committed to helping the most impoverished workers and unite as a class to abolish wage system/ didn’t trust government/ had some anarchy tendencies

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Women’s Trade Union league

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in 1903 it fought for better working conditions to be involved in feminist ideas and get women into unions

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Uprising of 20,000

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1909 a strike in cooper town that involved in the international women’s garment union

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international women’s garment union

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gathering of men and women invovled in Uprising of 20,000 and produced shirtwaist clothing and were important to economy

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Clara Lemlich

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a leader in the Uprising of 20,000 in 1909 and proposed a general strike

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Mink (shirtwaist) strikers

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middle class women that went protesting and didn’t refuse being arrested and bailed working class out of jail

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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

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1911, a fire broke out in a company and hundreds died, leading to more union support and beginnings of safety checks in workplaces