A | B |
Significance of Erie Canal | Direct passage from New York to Chicago; competed with New Orleans for agriculture and manufacturing; increased white population in Northwest |
Inventions of Eli Whitney | Cotton Gin, Interchangeable Parts |
Garrison's attitude towards slavery | Think about how slavery affects the slaves themselves, not the society |
Reasons to move to Texas | Cheap land, fertile soil |
Why Jackson was resistant towards annexation of Texas | Controversy, possible war with Mexico |
Outcome of Bank War | Economic turmoil, unstable system for U.S. |
Doctrine revived as a result of Tariff of Abominations | Doctrine of Nullifications |
Political party opposed to Manifest Destiny | Whig Party |
Women workers in Massachusetts, protested when received 25% tax cuts | Lowell Girls |
Rights of freedmen before the Civil War | Poverty; had to support themselves; quasi-free; not harmed by whites |
Took place in 1820 in order to decide whether or not this state should be free | Missouri Compromise |
Free state admitted after Missouri Compromise | Maine |
Amendment to prohibit slavery in Missouri | Tallmadge Amendment |
Meant to challenge slavery without challenging the rights of southern property | American Colonization Society |
Slavery is to be determined by the settlers of the particular territory | Popular Sovereignty |
What Dred Scott proved | Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional, as slaves were considered property |
What Dred Scott made way for | Popular Sovereignty |
Political party of Native Americans with a particular code | Know-Nothing Party |
Country that supplied the largest number of immigrants | Irish |
Original platform of the Republican Party | Against the effect slavery has on society |
Amendment proposing the nonexistence of slavery in Mexico | Wilmont Proviso |
Diplomatic Issues during Civil War | English Trent and and Six British Ships |
Situation involving English Trent | Charles Wilkes arrest confederate diplomats in Cuba, British demand their release |
Situation involving the Six Ships | Confederacy buys six ships from Britain, U.S. believes it violates neutrality laws |
What Lincoln was preventing with the English Trent and the Six Ships | Diplomatic Crisis |
Tilden wins popular vote; neither he nor Hayes win electoral vote; Democrats elect Hayes | Compromise of 1877 |
Restrictions on former slaves in Southern States in 1865 | Black Codes |
Black men working as tenants for white landowners in exchange for crops | Sharecropping |
Farmers giving crops in exchange for loans | Crop-Lien System |
Result of sharecropping | Physical independence for Blacks; landowners did not have to worry about the well-being of workers |
Result of Crop-Lien System | Blacks lose land earned, farmers rely solely on cash crops |
Lincoln's ultimate goal with Civil War | Maintaining the Union |
Situation of freedmen in the South after the Civil War | Build institutions for power |
Condition of Black Soldiers in Union | Not considered average soldiers; performed unusual tasks (liberating/burning towns) |
Boss of NYC's Tammany Hall, was jailed for excesses in 1872 was jail | Boss Tweed |
Political cartoonist disappointed with the treatment of former slaves | Thomas Nast |
New immigrant groups after the Civil War | Italians, Poles, Russians, Greeks, and Slavs |
Success of Organizes labor before 1900 | Labor was not pleased with conditions, began to form Unions, usually did not succeed |
founded the Hull House | Jane Addams |
Hoped to end crowding in Urban neighborhoods | Settlement House Workers |
Allowed the textile industry to become the largest industry in the South/U.S. | Sewing Machine |
Eliminated tribal ownership of land for Native Americans, gave land to white settlers | Dawes Act of 1887 |
Hoped to help deflect public criticism of corporations | Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 |
First states/region to give women voting rights | California and Washington, the West |
Cause of the Pullman strike of 1894 | Workers' wages were cut by 25% |