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APUS 15-21
unit test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Evangelical Protestant Revivalism/ the Second Great Awakening | Charles Grandison Finney was the leader, many outdoor meetings and preachings to help find religion. organized reform effors |
| ideals of domesticity | women were becoming stronger and stronger in protesting women's rights, but the male still saw their "cult of domesticity" |
| transcendentalism vs. utopian communities | utopianism: ideal comunities based with cooperative, communistic natures (Shakers, Robert Owen, Oneida Community) |
| american renissance: literary and artistic expressions | Portraits --> Landscapes --> Photographs |
| Deism | a new belief based on reason and science rather than the bible |
| unitarianism | god existed in only one person, not the holy trinity |
| Charles Grandison Finney | leader of the Second Great Awakening |
| Burned-Over District | major reform district in New York |
| Joseph Smith | created Mormon religion, believed there was a third book to the bible which he learned from an angel at night |
| Brigham Young | lead the Mormons from executions to Utah |
| Horace Mann | Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education wanted to improve public school systems |
| Noah Webster | "school master of the republic" wrote Websters Dictionary |
| McGuffey's Readers | school readers which preached patriotism, morality, and idealism |
| Emma Willard | Helped establish female secondary schools |
| Oberlin College | first college to accept women and blacks |
| Mary Lyon | established Mt. Holyoke college for women |
| Lyceums | lecture circuts which provided adults with education on lit, science, and moral philosophy |
| Godey's Lady Book | pro-women literature |
| Dorthea Dix | helped to improve Jail cell conditions |
| American Temperance Society | believed being drunk was bad because you would forget your family in the process |
| Ten Nights in a Barroom and What I Saw There (1854) | pro temperance book showing dangers of alcohol |
| Neal S. Dow | "father of prohibition" |
| Lucretia Mott | women's rights supporter |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | disobeyed marriage laws to support women's rights |
| Susan B. Anthony | Quaker and supporter of women's rights |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | Women's doctor |
| Lucy Stone | kept maiden name after marraige |
| Delaration of Sentiments | "all men and women are created equal" |
| Robert Owen | founded utopian community "New Harmony, Indiana" |
| Brook Farm | transcendentalist community |
| Oneida Community | utopian community based on free love and birth control |
| Shakers | believed in no sex or marrige, died out quickly |
| Gilbert Stuart | Portraits of George Washington |
| Thomas Cole | landscape painter HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL |
| Hudson River School | Art movement from portraits to landcapes |
| minstrel shows | American shows that featured blacks |
| Washington Irving | literary figure, wrote indirectly about California and the landscapes of the west |
| Trancendentalists | rejected Puritan theory, thought individualism and self-reliance |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Trancendentalist preacher |
| Henry David Thoreau | practiced civil disobediance and poetry |
| poor white trash | by 1860, 3/4 of the southerners didn't own slaves |
| third race | free blacks made up the third race |
| Denmark Vessey | lead slave rebellion in South Carolina |
| Nat Turner | slave uprising in Virginia, made no progress towards abolition |
| American Colonization Society | wanted to send blacks back to Africa |
| The Liberator | abolistionist newspaper |
| Sojourner Truth | womens activist against slavery |
| Frederick DouglaS | slave who wrote an autobiography for pro-abolition |
| Gag Revolution | anti-slavery appeals were to be disregarded in debate in the senate/house of reps |
| John Tyler | president after Harrison's death, whig |
| Third war with Britain | literary war |
| Arostook War | boarder between US and Canada over Maine |
| Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842) | boarder treaty between Canada and US |
| "Texas or Disunion" | southerners wanted to adopt Texas into the union because it was a slave supporting state |
| "conscience whigs" | thought annexing Texas would lead to growth of slavery |
| "Oregon fever" | Oregon became a popular migration place |
| James K. Polk | 11th president or US, beat out Henry Clay, brought more land into the US that any president has ever before |
| Manifest Destiny | idea that Americans were chosen by god to rule the western hemisphere, agriculture would make the most of the land |
| Walker Tariff of 1846 | reduced Tariff rates 10% |
| "Fifty-four forty forever" | where Americans believed the Canada boarder should lay |
| "spot resolutions" | Lincoln wanted the exact spot where blood had been shed during the Mexican war on American soil |
| Zachary Taylor | Gerneral in Mexican war, fought his way across the Rio Grande; "Hero of Buena Vista" |
| George Winfield Scott | captured Mexico City 1874 "old fuss and feathers" |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Divided up Mexico, confirmed Texas an American title, made US officially Ocean to Ocean |
| Colossus of the North | smaller western hemisphere countries feared US |
| Wilmont Proviso | stated "slavery should never exist in territories wrestled from Mexico" didn't pass in the Senate |
| Santa Anna | mexican leader |
| Cotton | south mass produced cotton to help the southern economy |
| Annexation of Texas | Jackson tried to sign them in his last day in office, Texas had to wait 9 more years to offically become American |
| 1801 | international slave trade officially ends in washington |
| 1619 | Introduction of Slaves to Virginia |
| Gadsen Purchase | purchase of New Mexico to connect a southern railroad from the east to the west |
| Compromise 1850 | California officially became a state, Fugitive Slave Law, slave trade abolished in Washington DC, encouraged by Daniel Webster |
| Santa Anna's Revenge | war with mexico eventually lead to Civil war |
| "the blood of this war is like the blood of able;" | Lincoln |
| Missouri Compromise | 1820 |
| Tariff of Abominations | 1828 |
| Texas State Hood | 1844 |
| Mexican War | 1846-1848 |
| popular sovereignty | people of each region should determine the status of slave laws- Stephen Douglass |
| Free Soil Party | wanted all new territories to remain free of slaves |
| Sutters Mill | gold discovery in California |
| Underground Railroad | Harriet Tubman, helped escape slaves make their way north |
| Harriet Tubman | huge leader in the underground railroad |
| fire-eaters | opposed Compromise of 1850 |
| Fugitive Slave Law | in the Compromise of 1850, runaway slaves would have to return home |
| personal liberty laws | made government officials and judges turn anti-slavery by promising them money for the return of slaves |
| election of 1852 | Pierce won over Scott- Democratic, end of whig party |
| Ostend Manifesto | we aquired Cuba |
| Treaty of Wanghia | treaty between US and China stated we got exclusive trading priveledges |
| Mathew C. Perry | opened the doors for trade with Japan |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | 1854... popular soverignty in the territories.. boarder refugges came in to vote |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | 1852.. Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| New England Emigrant Aid Co. | anti-slavery organization |
| border ruffians | would travel to states of popular soverignty to vote |
| Pottawatomie Creak | John Brown raid #1 |
| Lecompton Constitution | you can't vote against constitution, only against slavery in public voting |
| Attack on Charles Sumner in Senate | 1856 by Preston S. Brooks |
| James Buchanan | democratic nominee, didn't do anything to stop civil war from happening |
| Dred Scott Decision | 1857... slaves were property and couldn't become american citizens, slaves were still property if they were taken by their owners to free territory |
| Panic of 1857 | caused my california gold rush |
| Fort Sumter | 1861...first shot by SC on union fort in the south |
| boarder states | Delaware, Missouri, Kentucy, Maryland, West Virginia remained part of Union |
| Robert E. Lee | Confederate officer |
| Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson | Confederate Lieutenant |
| States' rights supporters | argued the confederacy had the right to seceed from the union |
| Jefferson Davis | president of confederacy, believed in strong central government |
| writ of habeas corpus | allowed anti unionists to be arrested for no reason at all |
| New York City Draft Riots | "war of the rich fought by the poor" |
| Morrill Tariff Act | increased tariffs by 10% |
| National Banking Act | established a national currency |
| Bull Run | Southern victory, two battles happened |
| Merrimack | battles in the sea |
| Antietam | battle won by the North, allowed Lincoln to issue the emancipation proclamation, and kept foreign affairs out of the war |
| Emancipation Proclamation | in states who the union freed, slaves would become emancipated |
| Robert Gould Shaw | lead 54th Regiment |
| David G. Farragut | union commander, takes over New Oreleans |
| Vicksburg | taken over on the 4th of July |
| Birth of Republican Party | 1854 |
| Lincoln Douglass Debates | 1858 |
| John Brown's Raid | Harpers Fairy.. 1859 |
| Election of 1860 | Lincoln (Republican) vs. Douglass (Democrat) vs. Bell (Constitutional Union) vs. Beckinridge (Democrat) |
| Secession of SC | December 20, 1860 |
| Crittenden Compromise | December 24, 1860 |
| Establishment of Confederacy | February 4, 1861 |
| Inauguration of Lincoln | March 1861 |
| Firing on Fort Sumter | April 1861 |
| Trail of Tears | forced removal of Native Americans |
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