19th Century American History Review

 

Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson

Washington’s Proclamation of Neutrality

Territorial Expansion

War of 1812

Clay’s American System

Monroe Doctrine

Manifest Destiny

Mexican American War

Sectionalism

Slavery and Abolitionism

Tariff of Abominations/Nullification Controversy

National Bank

Jacksonian Era

economic and social differences between North and South

Missouri Compromise 1820

Compromise of 1850

Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854/popular sovereignty

Dred Scott Decision

state’s rights versus federal supremacy

Lincoln elected/secssion of southern states

Lincoln’s war goals

Emancipation Proclamation

Effects of the Civil War

Reconstruction Plans: Lincoln versus the radicals

Tenure of Office Act/impeachment of Johnson

scalawags and carpetbaggers, the Ku Klux Klan, sharecropping

literacy tests, grandfather clause, Jim Crow Laws, poll taxes

Amendments 13, 14, and 15

Grant’s Administration: scandals

Compromise of 1877

Industrial Revolution, growth of railroads

Growth of Corporations, trusts, monopolies, and pools

Innovators and Robber Barons: Carnegie, Morgan, Rockefeller

Laissez Faire Capitalism, Social Darwinism, regulation of the railroads

Sherman Anti-trust Act

Growth of Unions, Collective Bargaining, Knights of Labor: Terence Powderly,

AFL: Samuel Gompers, bread and butter unionism

Labor Management Disputes: strikes, lockouts, injunctions

Urbanization and effects of it

Old versus New Immigration, nativism

Chinese Exclusion Act, Gentleman’s Agreement, Quota Act 1924

The Wild West: miners, farmers, ranchers and cowboys

Native Americans: “Indian Removal”, Indian Wars

The Grange, Populism