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