AP US History Period 4 (king) Flashcards

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