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Unit Four AP-USH
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alamo | The fortress in Texas where four hundred American volunteers were slain by Santa Anna in 1836. |
| San Jacinto | Resulted in the capture of Mexican dictator Santa Anna who was forced to withdraw his troops from Texas and recognize the Rio Grande as Texas's Southwestern border. |
| Cult of Domesticity | Pervasive nineteenth century cultural creed that venerated the domestic roles of women. It gave married women greater authority to shape home life but limited opportunities outside the domestic sphere. |
| Turnpike | Privately funded, toll base public toad constructed in the early nineteenth century to facilitate commerce. |
| Pony Express | The short lived, speedy mail service between Missouri and California that relied on lightweight riders galloping between closely placed outposts. |
| Transportation Revolution | The term referring to a series of nineteenth century transportation innovations that linked local and regional markets, creating a national economy. |
| Market Revolution | Eighteenth and nineteenth century transformation from a disaggregated, subsistence economy to a national commercial and industrial network. |
| Unitarians | Belief in a unitary deity, reject the divinity of Christ and emphasize the inherent goodness of mankind. |
| Mormons | Religious followers of Joseph Smith, who founded a communal, oligarch religious order in the 1830's, officially known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latte Day Saints. |
| Seneca Falls Convention | Gathering of feminist activists in Seneca Falls, New York, where Elizabeth Cady Stanton read her "Declaration of Sentiments," Stating that "all men and women are created equal" |
| Transcedentalism | Literary and intellectual movement that emphasized individualism and self-reliance predicated upon a belief that each person possesses and inner light that can point the way to truth and direct contact with God. |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Ended the war with Mexico. Mexico agreed to cede territory reaching northwest from Texas to the United States in exchange for cash payment, hunting rights, and formal recognition of their sovereign status. |
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