Darty AMH 2010
Chapter Eleven "The Free North and West" Exam Terms
Darty AMH 2010
Chapter Eleven "The Free North and West" Exam Terms
| California Gold Rush, "gold fever", "forty-niners", sojourners, Chinese immigrants, Californios |
| Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln--their backgrounds? |
| urbanization, interior cities, factory system, fuel efficiency (steam power, coal), mechanization, interchangeable parts, machine tools |
| agricultural productivity, axes, John Deere--steel plow, cradle scythes, Cyrus McCormack--mechanical reaper, land speculators |
| railroads, locomotives, steam engines, Samuel F. B. Morse--telegraph, federal lands, travel, Stephen A. Douglas |
| free labor ideology, wage laborers, values: self-reliance, discipline, and hard work, Henry Bellows--"The Influence of the Trading Spirit upon the Social and Moral America" |
| immigration, secondary immigrants, Germans, Irish, nativism |
| Reform: **evangelical temperament **transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson ** utopian settlements, Brook Farm, Charles Fourier--Fouriest communities, Oneida, John Humphrey Noyes--complex marriage, first husband, male continence, Mary Cragin **Women's Rights--Seneca Falls, New York; Declaration of Sentiments 1848 (also called Seneca Falls Declaration)--drafted by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, woman suffrage **Abolitionism --Frederick Douglass, Henry Highland Garnet, black abolitionists, racial discrimination, Harriet Tubman, Underground Railroad |
| Manifest Destiny--John O'Sullivan, expansionism,
pioneer life, Eliza Farnham--Life in Prairie Land (1846) ** Oregon Country, Oregon Trail, Independence, Missouri, ** Plains Indians--characteristics, wagon trains, "concentration"--becomes reservations, Lakota Nation, ** Joseph Smith Jr--The Book of Mormon (1830), Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, polygamy, Brigham Young, Mormon Trail, Deseret--Utah Territory |
| Mexican border, Texas, Santa Fe Trail, Stephen A. Austin, Tejanos, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Republic of Texas (1836)--Lone Star Republic, presidios, ranchos--rancheros, California Trail, John C. Fremont |
| John Tyler, Whigs, Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842), annexation of Texas, Mason-Dixon Line, James K. Polk, Election of 1844 |
| Mexican-American War, 1846-1848, General Winfield Scott, General Zachary Taylor, "Mr. Polk's War", General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Battle of Palo Alto, Veracruz, Mexico City, Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848), Mexican Cession |
