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Unit 5
Nationalism, Sectionalism & Reform People
Term | Definition |
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William Henry Harrison | His nickname was Tippecanoe; He died after only 32 days in office |
John Marshall | Federalist judge who increased the power of the national government during the “Era of Good Feelings” |
Andrew Jackson | champion of the "common man;" First president born outside of Massachusetts or Virginia |
John Q. Adams | Secretary of state who negotiated the treaty with Spain in which the US gained access to Florida |
CyrusMcCormick | inventor of the mechanical reaper |
Nat Turner | Led a bloody slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831; he was put to death and slave codes were tightened |
Sarah & Angelina Grimke | Southern sisters who grew up owning slaves who spent their lives fighting slavery. |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott | Organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention |
Charles G. Finney | Helped start the 2nd Great Awakening |
Frederick Douglass | Abolitionist who started The North Star |
William Lloyd Garrison | Abolitionist who started The Liberator |
Henry Clay | He created the American System, the Missouri Compromise & the Compromise Tariff of 1833 |
Noah Webster | created the new “American” dictionary |
Quakers | helped escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad |
Dorothea Dix | Leader of the mental health reform movement |
Horace Mann | Father of public education |
Young women | They did most of the work in early northern factories |
Robert Fulton | Inventor of the 1st steamboat |
Eli Whitney | Inventor of the Interchangeable Parts & later the cotton gin |
Samuel FB Morse | inventor of the telegraph |
Cyrus McCormick | mechanical reaper inventor |
John Deere | inventor of the steel plow |
Samuel Slater | Inventor of the Water frame (to spin cotton into cloth) |
John Tyler | Known as “His Accidency” since he took office after only 32 days |
Osceola | led a revolt of the Seminole Indians and fled to the Everglades |
John C. Calhoun | He called the Tariff of 1828 the “Tariff of Abominations” and suggested that his state should nullify it |
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau | the main figures in the transcendental movement |