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Ch.8spiritofreform
Chapter 8 spirit of reform history
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Andrew Jacksons views of the bank of the U.S. | believed it was unconstitutional. |
| National nominating convention | replaced Jacksonians with the caucus system. |
| Spoils system | practice of appointing people to government jobs based on part loyalty and support; started by Andrew Jackson. |
| Tariff of abominations | nicknamed this by critics; S.C. threatened to secede from union because of this. |
| Panic of 1837 | chaos and economic crisis that saw many farmers lose their land and banks fail. |
| Second great awakening | movement in the early 1800s, organized to revive Americans' commitment to religion. |
| Influx of immigrants between 1815 and 1860 | occurs in the U.S. |
| Lyman Beecher | felt the citizens should build a better society. |
| Frederick Douglass | most prominent African American abolitionist. |
| Irish immigrants | fleeing famine in Ireland. |
| ordinary citizens have more political participation | starting in the early 1800s and through the presidency of Jackson. |
| Andrew Jackson's background | poor background, poor orphan. |
| Great plains and moving Native Americans | many believed the Great Plains was a wasteland and more Natives there would end the conflict with them. |
| Public education system | funded by governments through taxpayer money. |
| South and view of abolitionism | abolitionism, may Southerners believed, attacked their entire way of life. |
| Battle of New Orleans and Andrew Jackson | during the war of 1812; battle where Andrew Jackson became a hero. |
| Penny papers | Inexpensive newspapers that provided new like gossip, politics, and local news. |
| Andrew Jackson | 1828 |
| Martin Van Buren | 1836 |
| Williams Henry Harrison | 1840 |
| John Tyler | 1841 |
| David Walker | published a pamphlet that advocated violence and rebellion as the only way for African Americans to end slavery. |
| Williams Lloyd Garrison | founded the American Antislavery Society. |
| Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton | organized the Seneca falls convention, which marked the beginning of an organized women's movement. |
| Emma Willard | founded a girls boarding school in Vermont. |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | first woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S. |
| Joseph Smith | founded the Mormon faith. |
| Horace Mann | leader of the public education movement. |
| Nat Turner | an enslaved preacher who led an uprising in VA. |
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