Early American Politics and Social Movements: A Timeline of Events, Quizzes of World History

Download Early American Politics and Social Movements: A Timeline of Events and more Quizzes World History in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Republicans vs. Federalists DEFINITION 1 Who: Jefferson and Madison vs. Hamilton and Adams What: Two parties arose because of differing notions of where the threat to liberty lay. (Republicans - commercial and manufacturing elite. Federalists - common people). Why: Undermined deference because common people could not defer to a divided elite. TERM 2 The Republican Revolution DEFINITION 2 Who: Jefferson vs. Adams, Jefferson won What: Americans come to believe that their liberties would be preserved by an open political sphere. Everybody could and should participate as long as they were free and white and male. When: Election of 1800 Why: Americans were ready to make a change in their society. TERM 3 Temperance DEFINITION 3 Who: Evangelical Protestants What: Americans were consuming too much alcohol. It violates natural law and is at the root of social problems. Movement was successful. When: After War of 1812 Why: Limits to success, moral suasion only worked on upwardly mobile; had to resort to pushing for state laws for reform. TERM 4 Republican Motherhood DEFINITION 4 What: Compromise to efforts for balancing old roles and new realties. Women were supposed to 1. remain in their homes 2. encourage the formation of republican virtue in the men around them. When: early republic Why: Showed that the Revolution reformed the relationship between men and women and made political women's personal lives. Repudiated political experiences of women in the 60s and 70s and retreated from ideas of equality. TERM 5 Lewis and Clark DEFINITION 5 What: Established favorable relations with dozens of Indian groups and helped to establish American claim to the area west of the Rockies. When: 1804-1806 Why: Americans begin to transform their relationship to the continent. Expansion changes the shape and social structure of the American nation. lt was inextricably linked to things like American experience with democracy, slavery, and capitalism. TERM 6 Removal and Racism DEFINITION 6 Who: White vs. Blacks and Frontier people vs. Indians What: White ideology - blacks and indians were biologically inferior. Polygenesis explains the diversity in the world. Inferior people would remain that way. When: 1820s-30s Why: Justified slavery and removal TERM 7 The Missouri Compromise DEFINITION 7 Who: Henry Clay 1821 What: Solution to the debate over Missouri's admission into the union. Clay persuaded 1. a few northern congressmen to vote against the Tallmadge amendment and allow Missouri to be a slave state. 2. a few southerners to agree that from henceforth slavery would be prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of 36 30. 3. the south to allow the admittance of Maine as a free state for the North. Why: It worked, ended the crisis, but radicalized the South and made the North less TERM 8 Caleb Jackson DEFINITION 8 Who: 15 year old who kept a diary in Mass. What: Lifestyle absolutely depended on having markets. When: Early republic Why: Family exemplified competency. TERM 9 Free Labor DEFINITION 9 Who: Anti-slavery advocates What: Northern ideology - People work for wages, people who were not slaves. When: Antebellum North Why: Pushed North to criticize South, slavery degraded white labor. Advocates did not care what it did to blacks. TERM 10 Abolition vs. Anti-Slavery DEFINITION 10 What: Abolitionists wanted equality for black people. Anti- slavery advocates agreed that blacks were inferior. They saw different solutions to slavery. Why: Distinction between the two was insignificant, both were equal enemies to the South.