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9wks test history
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| seneca falls convention | an influential women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, 1848. organized by New York women upon the visit by Lucretia Mott, famous for her speaking ability, which women rarely had. Elizabeth cady stanton |
| Hinton Helper/impending crisis of the south | helper hated slavery ad blacks, book said white non slave owners suffered the worst, the book was banned in the south |
| oregon territory | US and UK fought over it, americans migrated on the oregon trail, treaty of 1818 (joint occupation) |
| wilmot proviso | prohibited slavery in any territory acquired in the mexican war. south disagreed, |
| john deere | invented the steel plow that could be pulled by horses |
| American anti-slavery society | created by Garrison and followers, main figure was wendell phillips. wore no cotton and ate no cane sugar |
| irish immigration | americans treated irish horribly, they were uneducated, poor, and had to live in slums. were almost as low as blacks, were an influential voting group, controlled police departments and such |
| john slidell | sent by polk to buy california territory, but mexico denied the offer |
| know nothing/american party | a anti foreign group formed to regulate immigration and naturalization and deport aliens. they also spread lies |
| mormons | new religion, joseph smith said he found golden plates from an angel, they were the book of mormon, people opposed it, smith was brutally murdered, brigham young took charge, many people migrated to utah, polygamy was accepted, community thrived |
| transcendentalism | individualists, supporters of the arts, advocators of the wilderness, anti-industrialism, against working conditions, child labor, and pollution. romanticism, rejected puritanism, utopias |
| manifest destiny | expanding west, oregon, texas, california, war with mexico |
| webster-ashburton treaty | a treaty about the borders of maine, we got more territory,but the british got the halifax-quebec route |
| brigham young | the new leader of mormons after smith died, led mormons to utah, thrived under him, wast the governor, under him pioneers built roads, bridges, irrigation, militia. government came to remove him, almost burned SL city, but he stepped down to keep peace |
| lowell system | a method of factory management where mill workers were housed in clean boardinghouses, strictly supervised both at work and at home, and were paid unusually good wages. women worked there and liked it. wrote a literary magazine |
| "factory girls" | |
| wage slaves | someone who's livelihood depends on their wages |
| cyrus field | stretched a wire from newfoundland to ireland, |
| clintons big ditch | the erie canal, |
| dorthea dix | prison and asylum reforms, fought for better prison conditions and asylums for the insane |
| william lloyd garrison | fervent abolitionist and feminist, alienated some members because of split agenda |
| steven douglas | the little giant, helped henry clay |
| mexican cession | an area of mexico (texas) that wanted to be annexed by the US and was fought over int the mexican american war |
| cyrus mccormick | invented them mechanical mower-reaper, helped the west, |
| treaty of guadelupe hidalgo | ended the war with mexico, gave america texas and california, we gave them 15 million dollars |
| mexican american war | |
| abolitionists | people who opposed slavery |
| second great awakening | the growing conservative reaction against the liberalism in religion, started in south then spread, sparked all kinds of reforms, spread to the frontier, methodists and baptists most successful. |
| horace mann | leader in education reform, campaigned for better schoolhouses, longer school terms, higher pay for teachers, and an expanded curriculum. |
| cult of domesticity | when women were expected to act as a perfect mother and wife and maintain the house, also act religiously |
| james k polk | was involved in the disputes over oregon, led america to win the mexican american war and obtain land |
| lucretia mott | a women's rights activist present at the seneca falls convention |
| george caitlin | an american painter who painted native americans, fought for the preservation of nature. proposed the national park. |
| samuel slater | father of the factory system, built first successful cotton mill |
| eli whitney | cotton gin, separated the seed from the fiber, 50 times more effective than handpicking |
| samuel morse | morse code, strung wire from washington to baltimore and tapped out what hath god wrought |
| canals turnpikes and railroads | all very important inventions in transportation and delivering goods |
| cotton kingdom | the cotton producing region of the US, the south. plantations |
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