Index for United States History Thread

3/5 Compromise -- see Constitution

abolitionist #50; Age of Reason #31, Albany Convention #34; American Revolution #'s 8, 34; Aristocracy #?; Athens #34

Bill of Rights -- see Constitution; Boston Tea Party #49; Brown, John #47

canals #42; Civil War #'s 42, 50, 57; coal #42; Common Sense #33; Connecticut Plan #34

Constitution #'s 31, 34-35, 37, 41
-- 3/5 Compromise #37
-- Bill of Rights #31
-- Great Compromise #34
-- Virginia Plan #34

cotton #42; Cromwell, Oliver #11

Declaration of Independence #16; Douglass, Frederick #26

Edwards, Jonathan #45; Emancipation Proclamation #57; Enlightenment #'s 16-17, 33; England #50;

factories #42; foundries #42; France #50; Franklin, Benjamin #54, #33, 34; French Revolution #34

Government #12; Great Compromise #34; Great Awakening #45

indigo #42; Intolerable Acts #49

Harper's Ferry #47

Jamestown, Virginia #25; Judaism #?

Kansas #38; Kansas-Nebraska Act #38; King James Bible #50; King, Martin Luther #16

The Last Days of Socrates #34; Limbaugh, Rush #31; Lincoln, Abraham #'s 16, 26, 50, 57; Locke, John #15; locomotives #42

machine tools #42; Massachusetts #49; Mercantilism #62; Missouri-Compromise #36, 50;

Nebraska #38; New Jersey Plan #34; North, The (States that did not secede) #'s 42, 48

Paine, Thomas #33; Parliament #49; Philadelphia Convention #34; Plato #34; Pocahontas #25

railroads #42; Renaissance #14; Revolutionary War #8, 42; rice #42; Rights of Man #33

separation of church and state #41; ship building #42;

slavery #'s 25, 26, 31, 33, 36-38, 50;

Smith, Adam #36; Social Gospel Movement #??; Socrates #34; steam engine #42;

South, The (The Confederate States) #42
-- economy of #42

tea #49; tea tax #49; tobacco #42; Tubman, Harriet #48;

Turner, Nat #26

underground railroad #48

Virginia Plan - see Constitution

Washington, George #25; Wealth of Nations #36; Wilkes, John #31; Williams, Roger #41

X, Malcomb #26

Thirty-First Word: Puritans
Category: Foundation

Short Answer - - English Christian denominations who founded the New England colonies, which became Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.

Ming’s Answer

I’ve read some to try to answer the question: What is or was a puritan? I’m surprised at how complicated the answer could be. Maybe that’s why American history books don’t talk much about the Puritan’s political and religious ideas. The school texts focus on the different kinds of religious groups, Puritan, Catholic, Quaker, Huguenot, Anglican, Presbyterian and nationalities, English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish, Indian that formed the original British Colonies. One observation, which I have made and which won’t normally be discussed in any discussion of Puritanism is that as a group, they could be the most innovative. One might come to that conclusion by counting the number of patents granted to people in New England in the nineteenth century.

Whitney and Lowell lived in New England. Were they Puritans?

You might as well start with Chauncey Depew. He wrote your list. The Wikipedia says that he was a member of a committee to complete the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City, and he was a member the Huguenot Society, and Saint Thomas' (Episcopal) Church, New York. He must have been an Espicopalian.

Forty-Second Word: Monopoly
Category: Ubanization

Short Answer - - Organization, which can sell a product at a price below cost: For example: public schools.

Ming's Answer

American school text books imply that monopolies are a phenomenon of the United States in the nineteenth century, but they must have been fairly common in the Renaissance. China and India both had state controlled salt monopolies. Shakespeare's bio usually includes a line about how his father ran afoul of the English wool monopoly. The American Revolution involved a tea monopoly.

Kurlansky, your favorite communist, said in Salt that the Phoenicia, Carthage, Rome, and Venice had salt monopolies. I bet that the West African kingdoms like Ghana might have had salt monopolies.

Forty-Ninth Word: Social Gospel Movement
Category: Urbanization

Short Answer - - Protestant Christian intellectual movement that was most prominent in the late 19th century and early 20th century. The movement applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially poverty, inequality, liquor, crime, racial tensions, slums, bad hygiene, child labor, weak labor unions, poor schools, and the danger of war. per Wikipedia

Ming’s Answer

Social Gospel Movement? What’s that? Until I found it on the study guide, I had never heard of it. I had heard of parts of it like settlement houses, Jane Addams, Hull House. One can find information about it in odd places. For example the biography of Theodore Roosevelt, which relates how the women in Roosevelt’s family demanded that New York change labor laws to protect workers after the Triangle Fire in New York City killed 146 workers.

The sources I have read, suggest that the Social Gospel Movement no longer exists, or if it does exists, it has morphed into other forms, Civil Rights Movement etc. That could be, but I still live right in the middle of it. My father helps operate a settlement house. He doesn’t use the word, but seems to me that is what it is. He wants to help people who are down on their luck. Chinese people worry a lot about luck.

I have a new avatar. I'm no expert on characters, but I think my avatar is pung yo, which, if I remember correctly, was the name of your cat.

So you think American entrepreneurs are puritans. Could the Social Gospel Movement be puritans?

There is a short answer.
America = good idea got out of hand.
We only let you win the war of independance because we felt sorry for you.

Yes i know, this post is a piss-take.