Industrial Revolution Flashcards
Free Enterprise
Relationship where property is held by one party for the benefit of another
Syndicate
Organization combined to promote a common interest
Patrician
Aristocrat or noblemen
Social Darwinism
Aristocrat or nobleman
Socialist
People who support the companies being owned by the government.
Lockout
The workers go on strike for a reason
Anarchist
People who don’t believe in the government
War of 1812
Military conflict, lasting for two and a half years, fought by the United States of America against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies and its Native American allies. Resolved many issues which remained from the American Revolutionary War but involved no boundary changes. Declared war on June 18, 1812, for several reasons, including trade restrictions brought about by the British war with France, the impressment of US merchant sailors into the Royal Navy, British support for Native American tribes against European American expansion, outrage over insults to national honor after humiliations on the high seas, and possible US interest in annexing British Territory.
Corrupt Bargain of 1824
Henry Clay was speaker of the house and Jackson accused him of using his influence to help John Quincy Adams to win. Jackson supporters claim the Adams in clay work together to steal the election it from Jackson. Despite their claims the phone in the house to clear John Quincy Adams as the sixth president of United States.
Jacksonian Democracy
The political movement during the Second Party System toward greater democracy for the common man symbolized by American politician Andrew Jackson and his supporters. The Jacksonian Era lasted roughly from Jackson’s 1828 election as president until the slavery issue became dominant after 1850 and the American Civil War dramatically reshaped American politics as the Third Party System emerged.
Manifest Destiny
Term for the attitude prevalent during the 19th century period of American expansion that the United States not only could, but was destined to, stretch from coast to coast. This attitude helped fuel western settlement, Native American removal and war with Mexico.
Immigrants during the antebellum period
About 5 million people entered the United States between 1820 and 1860. Nearly 1.6 million were natives of Ireland, and 1.5 million more were from Germany. During the 1820s, the Irish and Germans accounted for more than 40 percent of immigrants; in the 1830s, they accounted for approximately 60 percent; and in the 1840s and 1850s, they made up more than 70 percent of immigrants. English immigrants accounted for 15 percent or less of the total.I n the late 1840s, some 25,000 Chinese immigrants arrived during the California gold rush and established residence. Nativists were outraged of all the new immigrants.
Reform movements
Women’s rights, temperance, and education were the main reforms which led to riots for a chance of hope for change in America.
Articles of Confederation Weaknesses
The national government could not force the states to obey its laws, It did not have the power to tax, no power to enforce laws, congress lacked strong and steady leadership, there was no national army or navy, no system of national courts, states could issue their own paper money, each state could put tariffs on trade between states.
