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| 5318017914 | Democrats | political party that brought Andrew Jackson into office in 1829 - supported Jeffersonian ideas of limited government, drawing its support from the "common Man" | 0 | |
| 5318017915 | Whig Party | Political Party created in 1834 as a coalition of anti-Jackson political leaders | 1 | |
| 5318017925 | Southern Defense of Slavery | southerners held a widespread belief that blacks were inferior to whites and that the slavery was good for black - also understood that the southern cotton economy was dependent on slave labor | 2 | |
| 5318017927 | Charles Finney | Presbyterian minister who is credited and is known as the "Father of modern Revivalism" - advocated the abolition of slavery and equal education for women and African Americans | 3 | |
| 5318017928 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Advocate of women right's, including the right to vote -organized (with Lucretia Mott) the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, NY | 4 | |
| 5318017929 | Frances (Franny) Wright | Scottish-born woman who became a vocal advocate as a US citizen for racial equality, equality for women, birth control, and open sexuality | 5 | |
| 5318017930 | Dorothea Dix | Pioneer in the moment for special treatment for the mentally ill | 6 | |
| 5318017931 | Horace Mann | Massachusetts educator who called for publicly funded education for all children | 7 | |
| 5318017933 | William Lloyd Garrison | Radical abolitionist in Massachusetts who published the liberator, an antislavery newspaper | 8 | |
| 5318017934 | Sojourner Truth | Former Slave (freed in 1827) who became a leading abolitionist and feminist | 9 | |
| 5318017935 | Elijah Lovejoy | Abolitionist leader who was killed in Alton, Illinois by a proslavery mob attacking his newspaper press to keep him from publishing | 10 | |
| 5318017936 | Frederick Douglass | Former slave who became a significant leader in the abolitionist movement - Known for his great oratorical skills | 11 | |
| 5318017937 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Philosopher, writer, and poet who became a central figure in American Transcendentalist | 12 | |
| 5318017938 | Henry David Thoreau | Writer and naturalist - With Ralph Waldo Emerson, he became America's best known transcendentalist | 13 | |
| 5318017939 | John James Audubon | Naturalist and painter who became well-known for his attempt to document all types of American birds | 14 | |
| 5318017940 | Richard Allen | African American minister who established the first independent African American denomination in the US, the African Methodist Episcopalian Church | 15 | |
| 5318017941 | David Walker | African American who wanted slaves to rebel against their own masters - relied on sailors and ship's officers sympathetic to the abolitionist cause to transfer his message to southern ports | 16 | |
| 5318017942 | Samuel Slater | known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution," - brought British textile technology to the United States | 17 | |
| 5318017943 | Cyrus McCormick | Developed the mechanical reaper in 1831, a machine that revolutionized farming by increasing crop yields and decreasing the number of field hands needed for the harvest | 18 | |
| 5318017944 | John Deere | Invented the steel plow in 1837, which revolutionized farming - the steel plow broke up soil without the soil getting stuck to the plow | 19 | |
| 5318017955 | American Anti-Slavery Society | Abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison - included Frederick Douglass as a significant leader of the society | 20 | |
| 5318096631 | George Fitzhugh | writer who published the idea that slavery is a positive good because "the negro is but a grown up child" who needs the economic and social protections of slavery | 21 | |
| 5318112764 | cult of domesticity | The belief that women were to provide religious and moral instruction in the homes but avoid the rough world of politics and business. Popular in the Mid-19th Century, caused womens rights movements. | 22 | |
| 5318132412 | Seneca Falls Convention | Site of the first modern women's right convention. At the gathering. Stanton read Declaration of Sentiments. Some even called for suffrage. Much of this is a reaction AGAINST the cult of domesticity. | 23 | |
| 5318154022 | Quakers | Many were abolitionists, as seen by the Grimke sisters. | 24 | |
| 5318159823 | Burned over Districts | Part of the 2nd Great Awakening - label given to Western New York due to intense level of evangelical revelation that swept through the area like wildfire | 25 | |
| 5318170086 | Transcendentalism | Emerson, Thorough -- belief in the "inner light" and ability of man, reverense or nature, belief in direct communication with God and Nature (no need for organized churches) Promoted individualism, self-reliance, and freedom from social constraints, and emphasized emotions. | 26 | |
| 5318172116 | 2nd Great Awakening | Across the country people attended revival meetings and joining churches in record number during the 1820 and 1830s, started by a reaction to liberal religious thought such as Diesm and Unitarianism. | 27 |
