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5648293543Seneca Falls ConventionThe first convention of women for women's rights, with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton0
5648293544Horace MannAdvocate for public education and implemented the tax for public school1
56482945792nd Great Awakening2nd revival of protestant values which caused the uprise of more groups against things like war, slavery, and drinking during the early 19th century2
5648294580American Temperance SocietySociety formed against drinking3
5648298060Cult of DomesticityIdeologies of most people about women, such as that they should stay at home, be more religious than men, etc...4
5648298061New ImmigrantsImmigrants from Europe coming in recently to the North because of extreme poverty in their native countries5
5648298062Old ImmigrantsImmigrants of mostly British descent which have roots in Americans before the New immigrants came in6
5648299870Fredrick DouglassFormer slave-turned-speaker in the North, his friends bought his freedom and he spoke against slavery, Abolitionist and friends7
5648299871William Lloyd GarrisonAbolitionist and friends with Fredrick Douglass8
5648301838American Colonization SocietyFounded 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 America9
5648301839TranscendentalismDivinity pervades all nature and humanity, and has progressive views on feminism and communal living10
5648305128Martin Van BurenIn 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 184011
5648305129Panic of 1837Financial crisis caused by Andrew Jackson when he tried to get rid of the National bank but didn't know what to do12
5648308243Walt WhitmanTranscendentalist and American poet13
5648308244Elizabeth Cady StantonFeminist 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 Bible14
5648310146Ralph Waldo EmersonPoet and lecturer who led the transcendentalism movement15
5648313193California Gold RushGold 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 185016
5648314200Susan B. AnthonyFeminist leader and friends with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Advocated for the woman's right to vote and was more famous than her partner (ECS)17
5648314201Dorothea DixAdvocate 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 criminals18
5648316428"The Liberator"19
5648316429American Anti-Slavery SocietyA society of abolitionist formed after the second great awakening20
5648317623Harriet Beecher StoweAuthor of Uncle Tom's cabin21
5648319577Harriet TubmanFormer slave who started the underground railroad and personally saved over three hundred slaves22
5648321356Aspects of Slave CultureGospel music Night time culture Blend of Catholicism and native African religions23
5648321357Commodore Matthew PerryPerson who made trade relations with Japan by threatening them with America's navy24
5648324156William Henry HarrisonRanda log cabin campaign president of America for one month died of pneumonia25
5648324157"Tippecanoe and Tyler too"Slogan of the log cabin campaign26
5648332926Log Cabin CampaignRefers to the fact that Harrison was the first president to campaign activity for office27
5648332927John TylerVice 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 resolution28
5648334103Texas RevolutionThe province of Texas revolted against Mexico because of Santa Anna's new rule as a dictator29
5648334104Sam HoustonLeader of the Texas revolt and president of the Republic of Texas. Was also friends with Andrew Jackson30
5648334105Austin FamilyFamily 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 slaves31
5648336988Oregon Trail: 54'50" line or FightFour 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" line32
5648336989War with MexicoAfter 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 happened33
5648338155James K PolkPresident 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 question34
5648338156Tariff of 1842Restored the the35
5648341066Treaty of Guadalupe-hidalgoTreaty 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 property36
5648341067Oregon Treaty37
5648343710California Bear Flag Republic38
5648344529Gadsden Purchase39
5648344530Manifest DestinyIdeology that Americans have the right to manifest the rest of the continent all the way to the Pacific40
5648346864Mexican Cession41
5648348234Spot Resolutions42
5648348235Wilmot ProvisoTreaty proposed which said that the states which currently have slavery can keep up at slavery will not spread throughout the newly obtained land43
5648350179"King Cotton"Cotton which is usually grown in the south which needed Eli Whitney's cotton gin and a lot of labor and slaves44
5648351356Eli Whitney's Cotton GinInvention which revitalize slavery because it made cotton easier to produce but still difficult and labor intensive45
5648351357Nativism46
5648353252German and Irish ImmigrantsImmigrants 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 north47
5648353253Popular SovreigntyPolitical ideology which allowed states to decide whether or not they would be a slave states or free states48
5648355229Uncle Tom's CabinBook written by Harriet Beecher Stowe which showed the life of a slave although not entirely accurate helped people realize the horrors of slavery49
5648359864Free-Soil PartyPolitical party which believed that slavery can exist but only in the states in which it currently exists and cannot spread50
5648359865Shakers51
5648359866Know-nothing partySouthern part of the former whig party, they were pro-slavery52
5648362064Underground railroadEstablished by Harriet Tubman and helped slaves run away from their owners to the north or to Canada53
5648363179Compromise of 1850Compromise 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 trade54
5648363180Fugitive Slave LawProvision of the compromise of 1850 which meant that the north had to return any run away slaves to the south55
5648364688Kansas-Nebraska Act56
5648366035Stephen DouglasLawyer from Illinois who had debates with Lincoln and also helped henry Clay with the compromise of 185057
5648366036Republican PartyParty founded by northern whigs, anti-slavery58
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 lot59
5648367752John Brown60
5648368755Lecompton ConstitutionFirst constitution voted on in Kansas but was deemed corrupt because the Democrats had cheated61
5648369638Dred Scott DescisionOne 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-Nebraska62
5648371716Roger TaneyChief Supreme Court Justice during the Dred scott decision63
5648372865Lincoln-Douglas debatesDebates versus Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas which were usually on the subject of the morality of slavery64
5648373947Raid at Harper's Ferry65
5648373948Panic of 185766
5648374644Tariff of 185767
5648376225Freeport Doctirine68
5648376226Abraham LincolnLawyer in Illinois ran for congressman but lost to Stephen Douglas soon to be president of the United States69
5648377538Zachary TaylorPresident 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 Fillmore70

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