AP US HISTORY UNIT 3 Flashcards

7986247595	Horace Mann	worked to reform the American education system, abolitionist, prison/asylum reform with Dorothea Dix	0
7986247596	Noah Webster	wrote the first major American dictionary	1
7986247597	Henry Clay	United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states	2
7986247598	Daniel Webster	- Leader of the Whig Party, originally pro-North, supported the Compromise of 1850	3
7986247599	John Noyes	Leader of a radical New York commune that practiced "complex marriage" and eugenic birth control	4
7986247600	Shakers	The followers of Mother Ann Lee, who preached a religion of strict celibacy and communal living.	5
7986247601	Louis Agassiz	America's greatest science teacher; defended creation science.	6
7986247602	Webster-Ashburton Treaty	1842 - Established Maine's northern border and the boundaries of the Great Lake states.	7
7986247603	Wilmot Proviso	1846 proposal that outlawed slavery in any territory gained from the War with Mexico	8
7986247604	Texas Annexation	1845 new acquisition, Mexico did not like.	9
7986247605	Tejanos	Spanish settlers who lived in what is now southern Texas	10
7986247606	Texicans	Texas Mexicans who brought slaves from Mexico	11
7986247607	Election of 1844	Polk (Dem) defeats Clay (Whig) and Birney (Liberty - anti-slavery)	12
7986247608	steam engine	an engine that uses the expansion or rapid condensation of steam to generate power.	13
7986247609	slave codes	Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic rights.	14
7986247610	Task System	a system that allowed slaves to work their own land after their assigned duties were completed	15