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
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
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
churches aimed to change the nation by pointing out what was immoral of slavery/sins
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Theodore Dwight Weld
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
1817 created by Theodore weld which was an anti-slavery association
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Frederick Douglas
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
13th (ended slavery) 14th (full citizenship rights) 15th (right to vote)
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Fugitive Slave Act
1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory
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Grimke Sisters
mid 19th century abolitionist women that were influenced by the liberator
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Angelina Grimke
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
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
late 18th century woman who created the first document about women's rights
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Frances Wright
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
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
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
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
a practice by which women had no property rights (only through men)
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declaration of sentiments
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
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
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
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
1915 movie that promoted racist images of African Americans and showed the formation of the KKK
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lost cause
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
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
the law that said you had to pay to vote
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plessy v ferguson
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
late 19th century the laws to segregate facilities
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black male rapist
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
1890s a journalist that wrote compelling and dangerous essays about anti-lynching
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jesse daniel ames
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
1930 dispelled the myth that women needed protection by lynching violence
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Workman's prayers to the masses
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
1870s to about 1900 nickname for the period of wealth disparity and extreme money and extreme poverty
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knights of labor
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
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
protest at haymarket that ended up killing multiple people because a mysterious bomb went off
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anarchy
movement that believed in no government rule
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samuel gompers
late 19th century
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AFL
founded in 1886, by samuel gompers which gathered skilled workers
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IWW
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
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
1909 a strike in cooper town that involved in the international women's garment union
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international women's garment union
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
a leader in the Uprising of 20,000 in 1909 and proposed a general strike
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Mink (shirtwaist) strikers
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
1911, a fire broke out in a company and hundreds died, leading to more union support and beginnings of safety checks in workplaces