The American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society was an antislavery organization formed in 1840 when a group of moderate abolitionists split off from the American Anti-Slavery Society in protest of the radicalism of William Lloyd Garrison and his support of women's rights.
This organization founded in 1839 by female reformers established homes of refuge for prostitutes amd petitioned for state laws that would criminalize adultery and the seduction of women.
This association was formed by women's rights activists in 1866 to advocate universal suffrage at the state level after the Fourteenth Amendment failed to provide federal guarantees for women's voting rights.
The doughboys were American troops of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) who served in Europe in World War I. Their presence boosted the morale of British and French troops and was decisive in the outcome of the war.
Germany's Afrika Korps under the command of General Erwin Rommel contested British and American armies for control of North Africa in 1942-43. In July 1943, the Korps surrendered.
The term "doves" identified those Americans who opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. They generally believed that the United States was unjustifiably meddling in a Vietnamese civil war.
Brave, brutal, and imaginative Spanish conquerors of the New World, "conquistadors" (Spanish for "conqueror") were noted for their mistreatment of Native Americans.
Muckrakers were progressive investigative journalists who exposed the seamy side of American life at the turn of the twentieth century. They were named by President Roosevelt who disapproved of their "raking in the muck."
In American political jargon, a kingmaker is a political manipulator who, usually from behind the scenes, organizes the successful election of his chosen candidate. Mark Hanna was the kingmaker behind William McKinley's election to the presidency in 1896.
In the aftermath of the War of 1812, the United States and Britain negotiated several friendly agreements regarding the U.S.-Canadian border. This rapprochement (coming together) meant that for years no serious trouble would mar Anglo-American relations.
"Walden" (1854) was Henry David Thoreau's story of his experiment in living simply. It is an indictment of the acquisitive social behavior and unthinking conformity of the average American of his time.
"Vietnamization" was the war policy adopted by presidents Johnson and Nixon after the Tet offensive in 1968. It was an effort to build up South Vietnamese forces so that American troops could be withdrawn from Vietnam.
President Ford believed that inflation was the most serious problem facing the economy in the mid-1970s. He called on Americans to wear WIN (Whip Inflation Now) buttons as a sign of their willingness to fight inflation. The campaign failed.
In the Teller Amendment, the United States pledged that it did not intend to annex Cuba and that it would recognize Cuban independence from Spain after the Spanish-American War.
Termination was the federal policy of withdrawing official recognition from American Indian tribes and dividing tribal assets among the tribe's members.
This uprising of Pueblo Indians in New Mexico broke out in January 1847 over the imposition of American rule during the Mexican War; the revolt was crushed within a few weeks.
Taylor was the commander of American armies in northern Mexico during the Mexican War. In 1848 he was elected president as a Whig candidate. He died in office in 1850.
President Theodore Roosevelt became known as a trustbuster for his crusades against American Tobacco and Northern Securities, but this was an exaggeration. He saw large business concentrations in need of government regulation, not destruction.
Townshend was the English Chancellor of the Exchequer who persuaded Parliament to impose a new series of trade taxes on the American colonies in 1767, the Townshend duties. He held a very low opinion of the colonists.
Spanish officials' promise of freedom for American slaves who escaped to Florida inspired this uprising of South Carolina slaves against whites in 1739.
