5648293543 | Seneca Falls Convention | The first convention of women for women's rights, with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton | 0 | |
5648293544 | Horace Mann | Advocate for public education and implemented the tax for public school | 1 | |
5648294579 | 2nd Great Awakening | 2nd revival of protestant values which caused the uprise of more groups against things like war, slavery, and drinking during the early 19th century | 2 | |
5648294580 | American Temperance Society | Society formed against drinking | 3 | |
5648298060 | Cult of Domesticity | Ideologies of most people about women, such as that they should stay at home, be more religious than men, etc... | 4 | |
5648298061 | New Immigrants | Immigrants from Europe coming in recently to the North because of extreme poverty in their native countries | 5 | |
5648298062 | Old Immigrants | Immigrants of mostly British descent which have roots in Americans before the New immigrants came in | 6 | |
5648299870 | Fredrick Douglass | Former slave-turned-speaker in the North, his friends bought his freedom and he spoke against slavery, Abolitionist and friends | 7 | |
5648299871 | William Lloyd Garrison | Abolitionist and friends with Fredrick Douglass | 8 | |
5648301838 | American Colonization Society | Founded to send all the freed slaves back to Africa, not very popular with the African American because they no longer spoke their native languages and have changed themselves to be better suited in America | 9 | |
5648301839 | Transcendentalism | Divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and has progressive views on feminism and communal living | 10 | |
5648305128 | Martin Van Buren | In Andrew Jackson's cabinet, and Andrew Jackson's vice president then first president of the United States. Inherited financial crisis of 1837; inability to deal with this financial problem and the Whig led to his loss in 1840 | 11 | |
5648305129 | Panic of 1837 | Financial crisis caused by Andrew Jackson when he tried to get rid of the National bank but didn't know what to do | 12 | |
5648308243 | Walt Whitman | Transcendentalist and American poet | 13 | |
5648308244 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Feminist presents in the Seneca convention who was Susan B. Anthony's role model and friend who lost most of her popularity when she blamed woman's role in society on Christianity and the Bible | 14 | |
5648310146 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Poet and lecturer who led the transcendentalism movement | 15 | |
5648313193 | California Gold Rush | Gold found in California which led to a lot of people settling there and California applying for statehood earlier than expected leading to the Crisis of 1850 | 16 | |
5648314200 | Susan B. Anthony | Feminist leader and friends with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Advocated for the woman's right to vote and was more famous than her partner (ECS) | 17 | |
5648314201 | Dorothea Dix | Advocate for the rights of mental patients went up before many senates of different states and proposed her plan to not consider mentally ill patients as criminals | 18 | |
5648316428 | "The Liberator" | 19 | ||
5648316429 | American Anti-Slavery Society | A society of abolitionist formed after the second great awakening | 20 | |
5648317623 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of Uncle Tom's cabin | 21 | |
5648319577 | Harriet Tubman | Former slave who started the underground railroad and personally saved over three hundred slaves | 22 | |
5648321356 | Aspects of Slave Culture | Gospel music Night time culture Blend of Catholicism and native African religions | 23 | |
5648321357 | Commodore Matthew Perry | Person who made trade relations with Japan by threatening them with America's navy | 24 | |
5648324156 | William Henry Harrison | Randa log cabin campaign president of America for one month died of pneumonia | 25 | |
5648324157 | "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" | Slogan of the log cabin campaign | 26 | |
5648332926 | Log Cabin Campaign | Refers to the fact that Harrison was the first president to campaign activity for office | 27 | |
5648332927 | John Tyler | Vice President of William Henry Harrison who became president of the United States after he died; tried to annex Texas wduring his lame duck period, so he passed a joint resolution | 28 | |
5648334103 | Texas Revolution | The province of Texas revolted against Mexico because of Santa Anna's new rule as a dictator | 29 | |
5648334104 | Sam Houston | Leader of the Texas revolt and president of the Republic of Texas. Was also friends with Andrew Jackson | 30 | |
5648334105 | Austin Family | Family who propose that Texas allow American citizens to enter into Texas as long as they follow the following three rules; must become Mexican citizens must become Catholic and cannot have slaves | 31 | |
5648336988 | Oregon Trail: 54'50" line or Fight | Four countries had claim to oregon but Russia and Spain backed out because of internal issues leaving it to America and Brtiain; Compromise was the boundary was set at the 54'50" line | 32 | |
5648336989 | War with Mexico | After the United States try to annex Texas Mexico cut off all relations with America and went to war immediately America one this is where the Alamo happened | 33 | |
5648338155 | James K Polk | President who follows John Tyler and Millard Fillmore he inherited the war with Mexico. Had four goals which were to lower the tariff and then stab Lish independent treasury and to solve the Oregon question and the Mexico question | 34 | |
5648338156 | Tariff of 1842 | Restored the the | 35 | |
5648341066 | Treaty of Guadalupe-hidalgo | Treaty between Mexico and the United States: Mexico recognizes the Rio Grande as southern Texas border; USA pays Mexico $15 million for what becomes California Nevada and parts of present-day Utah Arizona Colorado New Mexico in Wyoming; promises that US will protect Mexican nationals living a newly American land but no provisions for letting them keep their property | 36 | |
5648341067 | Oregon Treaty | 37 | ||
5648343710 | California Bear Flag Republic | 38 | ||
5648344529 | Gadsden Purchase | 39 | ||
5648344530 | Manifest Destiny | Ideology that Americans have the right to manifest the rest of the continent all the way to the Pacific | 40 | |
5648346864 | Mexican Cession | 41 | ||
5648348234 | Spot Resolutions | 42 | ||
5648348235 | Wilmot Proviso | Treaty proposed which said that the states which currently have slavery can keep up at slavery will not spread throughout the newly obtained land | 43 | |
5648350179 | "King Cotton" | Cotton which is usually grown in the south which needed Eli Whitney's cotton gin and a lot of labor and slaves | 44 | |
5648351356 | Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin | Invention which revitalize slavery because it made cotton easier to produce but still difficult and labor intensive | 45 | |
5648351357 | Nativism | 46 | ||
5648353252 | German and Irish Immigrants | Immigrants who flooded the north because they were in poverty and their home countries this gave the north more people which helped them during the Civil War and helped industrialize the north | 47 | |
5648353253 | Popular Sovreignty | Political ideology which allowed states to decide whether or not they would be a slave states or free states | 48 | |
5648355229 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe which showed the life of a slave although not entirely accurate helped people realize the horrors of slavery | 49 | |
5648359864 | Free-Soil Party | Political party which believed that slavery can exist but only in the states in which it currently exists and cannot spread | 50 | |
5648359865 | Shakers | 51 | ||
5648359866 | Know-nothing party | Southern part of the former whig party, they were pro-slavery | 52 | |
5648362064 | Underground railroad | Established by Harriet Tubman and helped slaves run away from their owners to the north or to Canada | 53 | |
5648363179 | Compromise of 1850 | Compromise made by Henry Clay and Stephen Douglas to solve the crisis of 1850 which save the union and postpone the Civil War of the north could industrialize compromise provided that California as a free state Utah and New Mexico is the determined by popular so variety fugitive slave law and boundary of Texas pays off debt and abolishes the DC slave trade | 54 | |
5648363180 | Fugitive Slave Law | Provision of the compromise of 1850 which meant that the north had to return any run away slaves to the south | 55 | |
5648364688 | Kansas-Nebraska Act | 56 | ||
5648366035 | Stephen Douglas | Lawyer from Illinois who had debates with Lincoln and also helped henry Clay with the compromise of 1850 | 57 | |
5648366036 | Republican Party | Party founded by northern whigs, anti-slavery | 58 | |
5648367751 | "Bleeding Kansas" | Term for Kansas because since it was determined by population of variety both Republicans and Democrats settled there and began to fight a lot | 59 | |
5648367752 | John Brown | 60 | ||
5648368755 | Lecompton Constitution | First constitution voted on in Kansas but was deemed corrupt because the Democrats had cheated | 61 | |
5648369638 | Dred Scott Descision | One of the worst decisions of the Supreme Court where Roger Teini ruled that Dred Scott could not sue because he was not a citizen of America; set precedent that blacks weren't citizens and the Missouri compromise was illegal by c of 1850and Kansas-Nebraska | 62 | |
5648371716 | Roger Taney | Chief Supreme Court Justice during the Dred scott decision | 63 | |
5648372865 | Lincoln-Douglas debates | Debates versus Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas which were usually on the subject of the morality of slavery | 64 | |
5648373947 | Raid at Harper's Ferry | 65 | ||
5648373948 | Panic of 1857 | 66 | ||
5648374644 | Tariff of 1857 | 67 | ||
5648376225 | Freeport Doctirine | 68 | ||
5648376226 | Abraham Lincoln | Lawyer in Illinois ran for congressman but lost to Stephen Douglas soon to be president of the United States | 69 | |
5648377538 | Zachary Taylor | President who ran during the election of 1848 for slavery was not a central issue because people thought that they had more time to solve that issue he was against the compromise of 1850 but he died before he could go against it and was replaced by Millard Fillmore | 70 |
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