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Date Posted: 12:21:51 05/28/01 Mon
Author: lynette
Subject: history terms

Grange - organized agrarian group "Patrons of Husbandry", pressured midwestern legislatures to regulate railraod monopoly, 1875-800,000 members
Granger Laws - badly drawn and fought through courts by lawyers, tried to regulate rates, storage feews, after this the Grange faded quickly
credit mobilizer - 1867-1868, railroad construction co, hired themselves to build, $50,000/mile for something costing $30,000/mile, exposed by NY newspaper in 1872, 2nd Congress formally censored, VP accepted 20 shares & dividends
Civil Rights Bill of 1875 - guarantee equal accomodationsin public places, prohibited racial discrimination, last of congressional radical Republicans, useless law
Tariff of 1857 - reduced duties to 20% on dutiable goods, then financial panic, some blamed misfortune on tariff's low rates
John Quincy Adams - 1824 to 1828, Corrupt Bargain w/ Clay, NE'er, Tariff of 1828, Patriot, aristocrat, Monroe Doctrine, Senator, House of Reps, foreign minister, internal improvements, not into spoils system
Panic of 1873 - railroad speculation in cosntruction, overexpansion in industry & agriculture & commerce, failure of powerful banking firm (Jay Cooke & Co), affected nat'l income & employment, gov't released $26 million
Joseph Glidden - invented superiour barbed wire in 1874, by 1883 600 miles turning out every day
transcontinental railroad - completed at Promontory Point Utah, link up of Central Pacific Railroad from West & Union Pacific Railroad from East
rise of sectionalism - protective tariffs, slavery, MS compromise, McCulloch v. Maryland
Bleeding Kansas - w/o settled gov't, raids b/w anti & pro slavery cont'd, 200 killed, $2 million in property destroyed from Nov 1855 to Dec 1856, House wouldn't seat Pro-Slavery or Free State delegates in 1856
slaughterhouse cases - 1869 LA law allowing one slaughterhouse corp exclusive rights, put small businesses out, pay fee to use equipment of large corp, 14th amendment protects people from such
Treaty of Kanagawa - 1854 treaty with Japan, US permitted consulate & US ships permitted to enter some ports for limited trade, signed by Matthew Perry
Treaty of Wanghia - 1844, 1st signed b/w China & Us, US gained access to CHinese ports, created b/c US feared British advantage in business
Pre-Emption Act - 1841 passed by Congress, squatters allowed to pre-empt land, 160 acres, 14 months after residence buy from gov't before public
Webster-Ashburton treaty - 1842 resolution of conflict b/w Maine & New Brunswick, Congress authorized 50,000 men & $10 million, General Winfield Scott arranged truce, signed by Britain, settled NorthEast boundary of US, ended border conflict w/ Canada & US hope to free Canada from Britain

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