HUSH Midterm - Terms to Know

  1. Antifederalist: opposed the constitution and supported a weaker federal government/in favor of a strong state government 

  2. Federalist: supported the constitution and a strong central government

  3. Sedition Act: made it illegal to write or say anything false or scandalous about the government

  4. Judiciary Act: established district, set the number of justices at 6, also created the executive department of justice and the attorney general

  5. Judicial Review: the power of the Supreme Court to declare a law unconstitutional

  6. Kitchen Cabinet: well-trusted advisors/friends, would all enter the white house through the kitchen, and were businessmen and newspaper writers, his Cabinet included Martin Van Buren and Roger B. Taney.

  7. Martin Van Buren: chosen successor of Andrew Jackson (became the 8th President) secretary of State and would later become VP; as in Jacksons Cabinet

  8. Indian Removal Act: Passed in 1830 and allowed the President to negotiate with eastern Indian tribes for their land and would give them western territories and money. (The Cherokees) 

  9. Tariff of Abominations: a high tariff on imported goods that South Carolina didn’t want to pay

  10. Pet Banks: Andrew Jackson took all the money out of the national bank and put the money in banks that would support him

  11. North: wealthy, industrialized, no slavery, more railroads

  12. South Carolina: 1st state to succeed from the Union 

  13. Jim Crow: laws that forced legal racial segregation 

  14. Antietam: bloodiest single day of the Civil War 

  15. Jefferson Davis: President of the Confederate states 

  16. Urbanization: Growth of cities; movement from rural to cities 

  17. Homestead Strike: strike at Carnegie Steel for money, working conditions, better hours

  18. Knights of Labor: Labor Union, 1st Union to accept workers of all races and genders. 

  19. Monopoly: complete control of a product or service (Rockefeller = oil)

  20. Trust: a group of separate companies placed under the control of a single-acting board

  21. 18th Amendment: illegal to buy, sell, consume, and make alcohol; make people worse(speakeasies)

  22. 19th Amendment: granted women the right to vote

  23. Recall: a vote to remove a government official who wasn’t doing what he was supposed to do

  24. Muckrakers: journalists who exposed social problems during the Progressive era. 

  25. Upton Sinclair: was a muckraker who exposed the meat industry and wrote The Jungle(a fiction book about the meat packing industry at the time) and used it as a way to uncover what was happening from