3rd quarter QA review (Industrialization, Immigration & Unbanization)

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Johnson vs. McIntosh
1823 N.A. do not own land they just have a right to exist there
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
(1831) The Cherokees argued that they were a seperate nation and therefore not under Georgia's jurisdiction. Marshall said they were not, but rather had "special status"
Worchester v. Georgia; Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
The Supreme Court decided Georgia had no jurisdiction over Cherokee reservations.
assimilation
the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another
Indian Removal Act
law passed in 1830 that forced many Native American nations to move west of the Mississippi River
Know-Nothing Party
Group of prejudice people who formed a political party during the time when the KKK grew. Anti-Catholics and anti-foreign. They were also known as the American Party.
Nativists
U.S. citizens who opposed immigration because they were suspicious of immigrants and feared losing jobs to them
Manifest Destiny
1800s belief that Americans had the right to spread across the continent.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Treaty that ended the Mexican War, granting the U.S. control of Texas, New Mexico, and California in exchange for $15 million
Mexican Cession
1848. Awarded as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo after the Mexican American War. U.S. paid $15 million for 525,000 square miles.
push factorsa factor that causes people to leave their homelands and migrate to another regionpull factorsA factor that draws or attracts people to another locationCotton Gina machine for separating cotton from its seeds.ImmigrationMigration to a new locationFactoriesplace in which workers and machines are brought together to produce large quantities of goods. Most commonly found along a river in the NE section of the US and mostly employed by young women who were paid hardly anything for their long hours of laboring in horrible conditions.Secon Great Awakeningreligious waves of spiritual gatherings which, beginning in 1800, resulted in reorganizing churches, reform, abolitionism and temperance movementsTemperance MovementA social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages.Education Reform Movement1830ish. Followed temperance movement and set up public schools and minimum requirements. Horace Mann was main component in movement.Seneca Falls ConventionTook place in upperstate New York in 1848. Women of all ages and even some men went to discuss the rights and conditions of women. There, they wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, which among other things, tried to get women the right to vote.AbolitionMovement to end slavery