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CHAPTER 2
(pp. 23-41)
Corporate colonies
Royal colonies
Proprietary colonies
Sir William Berkeley
Bacon's Rebellion
Indentured servant
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson
Metacom; King Philip's War
Quakers
William Penn
Mercantilism
Glorious Revolution

CHAPTER 3
(pp. 42-59)
Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards
George Whitefield
Cotton Mather

CHAPTER 4
(pp. 60-69)
Salutary neglect
Proclamation of 1763
Sugar Act
Quartering Act
Stamp Act
Townsend Act
Patrick Henry
Boston Massacre
Intolerable Acts
Coercive Acts
John Locke
Rationalism
Stono rebellion

CHAPTER 5
First continental congress
Patrick Henry
Sam Adams
John Adams
Second Continental Congress
Olive Branch petition
Thomas Pane - common sense
John Jay
Declaration of Independence
Patriots
Loyalists
Articles of the confederation
Land ordinance
North West ordinance
Shay's rebellion
Abbey Adams
Revolutionary (radical) Republicanism

CHAPTER 6
Checks and balances
Virginia plan
New Jersey plan
Connecticut plan; Great Compromise
Three-fifths compromise
Federalists
Anti-federalists
The Federalist papers
Bill of rights; amendments
Judiciary act of 1789
National bank
Citizen Genet
Jay's Treaty (1794)
Battle of Fallen Timbers
Whiskey Rebellion (1794)
Democratic-Republican party
Washington farewell address
XYZ affair
Aliens and seditions act
Kentucky/Virginia resolutions
Revolution of 1800

CHAPTER 7
Louisiana Purchase
Lewis and Clark expedition
John Marshall
Marbury v. Madison
Impressment
Embargo Act (1807)
War hawks
War of 1812
Andrew Jackson
Treaty of Ghent (1814)
Hartford Convention (1814)

CHAPTER 8
Era of Good Feelings
Sectionalism
Henry Clay; American System
McCulloch v. Maryland
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Monroe Doctrine (1823)
Eli Whitney; interchangeable parts
Lowell System; textile mills
Cotton gin

CHAPTER 9
Daniel Webster
Nativists

CHAPTER 10
Spoils system
Corrupt bargain
Henry Clay
Tariff of 1828 abominations
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Worcester v. Georgia
Trail of tears
Nullification crisis
John C. Calhoun
Two party system
Specie circular
Panic of 1837

CHAPTER 11
Feminists
Utopian communities
Shakers
American Temperance Society
Dorothea Dix
Horace Mann
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Seneca Falls Convention
Susan B. Anthony
William Lloyd Garrison; The Liberator
Fredrick Douglass; The North Star
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Nat Turner

CHAPTER 12
Manifest destiny
Mexican War (1846-1847)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
Wilmot Proviso
Ostend Manifesto (1852)
Gadsen Purchase (1853)

CHAPTER 13
Free-soil movement/party
Popular sovereignty
Compromise of 1850
Stephen A. Douglas
Fugitive Slave Law
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Beecher Stowe; Uncle Tom's Cabin
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Know-Nothing party
Republican party
"Bleeding Kansas"
John Brown
Lecompton Constitution
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Secession

CHAPTER 14
Fort Sumter
habeas corpus
border states
Jefferson Davis
Anaconda Plan
Emancipation Proclamation
Thirteenth Amendment
Gettysburg
Sherman's March
Homestead Act (1862)

CHAPTER 15
presidential Reconstruction
Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
Freedmen Bureau
Black Codes
Radical Republicans
Fourteenth Amendment
Thirteenth Amendment
Tenure of Office Act (1867)
Fifteenth Amendment
scalawags
carpetbaggers
Ku Klux Klan
Compromise of 1877

CHAPTER 16
chinese exclusion act
frederick jackson turner; frontier thesis
reservations
dawes severalty act
ghost dance movement
wounded knee
indian reorganization act
new south
tuskegee institute
plessy vs. ferguson
jim crow lawes
interstate commerce act

CHAPTER 17
transcontinental railroads
panic of 1893
J. pierpont morgan
bessemer process
andrew carnegie
vertical integration
u.s. steel
john d rockefeller
standard oil trust
horizontal integration

CHAPTER 18
chinese exclusion act
ethnic neighborhoods
ghettos
tenements
political machine
party boss
settlement house
jane addams
social gospel movement
w.e.b. du bois
joseph pulitzer
william randolph hearst

CHAPTER 19
Guilded Age
"rum, romanism, and rebellion"
Pendleton Act
Populist party
William Jennings Bryan
Cross of Gold (speech)
free silver

CHAPTER 20
William Seward
Alaska purchase (1867)
"new imperialism"
Alfred Thayer Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
jingoism
yellow journalism
Spanish-American War
Teller Amendment
Platt Amendment (1901)
Open Door policy
xenophobia
Panama Canal
Roosevelt Corollary
gentlemen's agreement
dollar diplomacy
Pancho Villa

CHAPTER 21
pragmatism
muckrakers
Standard Oil Company
Ida Tarbell
direct election of senators; Seventeenth Amendment
social welfare
municipal reform
Theodore Roosevelt; Square Deal
trust-busting
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
New Nationalism
New Freedom
Federal Reserve Act (1914)
Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)
Federal Trade Commission
Niagra Movement
Alice Paul
Nineteenth Amendment
League of Women Voters

CHAPTER 22
neutrality
Lusitania
Zimmerman telegram
Sedition Act
Fourteen Points
League of Nations
Henry Cabot Lodge

CHAPTER 23
Teapot Dome
assembly line
welfare capitalism
jazz age
Lost Generation
Prohibition; Volstead Act (1919)
Sacco and Vanzetti

CHAPTER 24
Black Tuesday (October 29, 1929)
buying on margin
Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930)
bonus march (1932)
relief, recovery, reform
Hundred Days
bank holiday
fireside chats
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Civilian Conservation Corps
Tennessee Valley Authority
National Recovery Administration
Securities and Exchange Commission
Federal Housing Administration
Works Progress Administration
Social Security Act (1935)
Father Charles Coughlin
John Maynard Keynes
dust bowl; Okies
Marian Anderson
A. Philip Randolph

CHAPTER 25
good-neighbor policy
neutrality acts
appeasement
cash and carry
four freedoms speech
Lend-Lease Act (1941)
Atlantic Charter
Yalta

CHAPTER 26
baby boom
Taft-Hartley Act (1947)
Communist satellites
Iron Curtain
containment policy
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin airlift
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
National Security Act (1947)

CHAPTER 27
interstate highway system
John Foster Dulles
Geneva Conference
Ho Chi Minh
domino theory
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (1954)
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Sputnik
military-industrial complex
NAACP
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Earl Warren
civil rights acts of 1957, 1960
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Student non violent Coordinating Committee
Beatniks

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571619418American Temperance Societygroup founded by Protestant ministers and others concerned with high rate of drinking; preached total alcohol abstinence
571619419Dorothea Dixdedicated her life to improving conditions for mentally ill people; through her awful reports of treatment, state legislature improved and built new hospitals
571619420Horace Mannleading advocate of public school movement; also encouraged schools to teach children principles of morality
571619421Lucretia Mottwomen's rights - and antislavery - advocate and reformer (see also 'Elizabeth Cady Stanton')
571619422Elizabeth Cady Stantonwomen's rights - and antislavery - advocate and reformer (see also 'Lucretia Mott')
571619423Seneca Falls Conventionfirst women's rights convention (1848: issued "Declaration of Sentiments;" declared "all men and women are created equal")
571619424Susan B. Anthonywomen's rights advocate; led campaign for equal voting, legal, and property rights for women (along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
571619425William Lloyd Garrison; The Liberatorfound of abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator;" one founder of American Antislavery Society (believed in immediate abolition without slaveholder compensation)
571619426Fredrick Douglass; The North Starformer slave; abolitionist; founder of antislavery journal "The North Star"
571619427Harriet Tubmanblack leader in abolitionist movement; helped organize effort to assist fugitive slaves (see also Sojourner Truth)
571619428Sojourner Truthblack leader in abolitionist movement; helped organize effort to assist fugitive slaves (see also Harriet Tubman)
571619429Nat Turnerleader of revolt against slaveholders in 1831 (55 whites killed, 100s blacks killed in retaliation)
571619430manifest destinyidea that America has the right to expand its territory
571619431Mexican War (1846-1847)US vs. Mexico: after US annexation of Texas; Mexican gov't refused to sell California; Texas border disputes
571619432Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)treaty b/w US and Mexico after Mexican War 1. Mexico would recognize Rio Grande as southern border of Texas 2. US gets California and New Mexico for only $15 million
571619433Wilmot Proviso(1846) bill proposed by congressman, David Wimot, to forbit slavery in any new territories from Mexico
571619434Ostend Manifesto (1852)secret US negotiation to buy Cuba from Spain, but antislavery members of congress found out and Pres. Pierce gave up negotiation
571619435Gadsen Purchase (1853)President Pierce's purchase (from Mexico) of the bottom of Arizona and New Mexico for a railroad (for $10 million)
571619436Free-soil movement/partyposition that all blacks - slave and free - should be excluded from new Mexican territories
571619437Popular sovereigntycompromise that left matters up to popular vote in the state
571619438Compromise of 1850proposed by Henry Clay to keep the south from seceding; admits California as free state, ban slave trade in DC, enforce new Fugitive slave law
571619439Stephen A. Douglassenator from Illinois, democrat, opponent to Lincoln for senatorship
571619440Fugitive Slave Lawlaw to track down and kidnap escaped slaves; also said that any captured person - free or former slave - had NO right to a trial by jury
571619441Harriet Tubmanescaped slave who made at least 19 trips back into the South to help free slaves
571619442Harriet Beecher Stowe; Uncle Tom's Cabinnovelist who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, about a slave named Tom and brutal white master; controversial
571619443Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)Douglas' plan to build railroad through middle of country; dividing Nebraska Territory into Kansas and Nebraska Territories; popular sovereignty to allow slavery or not
571619444Know-Nothing partyaka the American party; drew support away from the Whigs, helped weaken them; opposed Catholics and immigrants
571619445Republican partyfounded as reaction to Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854; mix of free-soilers, antislavery whigs, and democrats; opposed slavery in new territories
571619446"Bleeding Kansas"mini civil war in Kansas between antislavery northerners and proslavery southerners to win control of the territory through popular sovereignty
571619447John Brownviolent abolitionist, led raid against US arsenal to start slave revolt; became martyr
571619448Lecompton Constitutionproslavery constitution of Kansas; not supported by majority of settlers in Kansas; rejected by Congress
571619449Dred Scott v. Sandfordcourt case of a former slave (Scott) suing for his freedom against his former master; decision supported slavery; precursor to war
571619450Lincoln-Douglas debatesLincoln v. Douglas for Illinois Senate seat; Lincoln-against slavery expansion, Douglas- popular sovereignty
571619451Secessionsouthern states leaving the union to create the Confederacy; prompted by differences, but also by Lincoln's election to presidency
571619452presidential ReconstructionLincoln's plan to reincorporate southern states into the Union, continued about Andrew Johnson after Lincoln's death
571619453Wade-Davis Bill (1864)bill passed by Congress requiring 50% of voters in a state to take a loyalty oath; only non-Confederates could vote for new state constitution
571619454Freedmen's Bureausort of welfare agency for those affected most harshly by the civil war - both blacks and whites, most successful with education
571619455Black Codesrestricted rights and movements of newly freed African Americans: prohibited blacks from renting land/borrowing money/testifying against whites in court, put freedmen into semibondage
571619456Radical Republicansmoderates: concerned with economic boosts for white middle class. radicals: rights for blacks
571619457Fourteenth Amendmentall persons born in US are citizens, states must protect their rights
571619458Thirteenth Amendmentconstitutional amendment - no slavery
571619459Tenure of Office Act (1867)prohibited the president from removing a fed official or military commander without the approval of the senate (1867)
571619460Fifteenth Amendmentconst. amendment: prohibiting any state from denying or abridging a citizen's right to vote on account of race, religion, color, or previous condition servitude
571619461scalawagsmean name for southern representatives - used during reconstruction
571619462carpetbaggersmean name for northern newcomers, who go north mostly to make a profit - used during reconstruction
571619463sharecroppinga system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops
571619464Ku Klux Klansecret organization meant to intimidate blacks and white reformers, founded by ex-confederate general; burned black owned buildings, flogged/murdered freedmen to keep them from voting
571619465Compromise of 1877hayes would become pres as long as he (1) ended fed support for republicans in south (2) supported building of the transcontinental railroad
571619466chinese exclusion actprohibited further immigration to the US by chinese laborers
571619467Frederick Jackson Turner (frontier thesis)argued that 300yrs of frontier experience had played fundamental role in shaping character of american society; and promoted independence and individualism; challenges of frontier life caused americans to be inventive and practical minded; nervous about what would happen when there was no more frontier
571619468reservationslarge tracts of land assigned to the plains tribes as a negotiation for the building of the transcontinental railroad, during pres andrew jackson
571619469dawes severalty actdesigned to break up tribal organizations, which many felt kept native americans from becoming civilized; divided tribal lands into plots of 160 acres or less depending on family size. US citizenship was granted to those who stayed on the land for 25yrs and adopted habits of civilized life (1887)
571619470ghost dance movementlast effort of native americans to resist US domination and drive whites from their ancestral lands through a religious movement (late 1880s)
571619471wounded kneedecember 1890, over 200 native american men, women, and children were gunned down by the US army in the dakotas, in this battle
571619472indian reorganization actpromoted the reestablishment of tribal organization and culture (1934), part of FDR's new deal
571619473new southnew vision for self sufficient southern economy built on modern capitalist values, industrial growth, and improved transportation
571619474tuskegee instituteBooker T. Washington built this school to educate black students on learning how to support themselves and prosper. (promoted growth of such crops as peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soy beans)
571619475plessy vs. fergusonsupreme court case, upheld louisiana law requiring "separate but equal" accommodations
571619476jim crow lawsrequired segregated wash rooms, drinking fountains, park benches, and other facilities in virtually all public places
571619477interstate commerce actrequired railroad rates to be reasonable and just, also set up the first regulatory agency (1886)
571619478transcontinental railroadspromoted settlement of western plains, connected towns/cities => bigger markets
571619479Panic of 1893financial panic which forced a quarter of all railroads into bankruptcy

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