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History 11 Ch 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Spoils System | Practice of giving jobs to your friends who helped you get elected. Put many unqualified people into office. Andrew Jackson |
| Republican Virtues | Women were asked to teach honesty, discipline, virtue, etc. in school to children |
| Underground Railroad | created in response to slavery, series of escape routes from the south for runaway slaves. Harriet Tubman was a famous conductor |
| Temperance Movement | Movement to eliminate alcohol consumption |
| Suffrage | Grew out of the women’s rights movement. Suffrage was the demand for the right to vote |
| Secessionist | Someone who chooses to leave a group. The Confederates were secessionists |
| States’ Rights | One of the roots of sectionalism, states rights is the belief that states should have more power then the federal government |
| Trail of Tears | Forced march of the Cherokee Indians out of the south. Many died on the journey |
| Strike | Refusal to work |
| Abolitionist Movement | People opposed to slavery. Some wrote books(Harriet Beecher Stowe) Others spoke out(Frederick Douglas) and some used violence(John Brown) |
| Nativism | Opposed to immigration. Favored American(native) born to foreigners. Favored American purity |
| Free Enterprise | Economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of goods |
| American Women | Played an active role in reform movements. Also expected to teach republican virtues |
| Utopian Communities | Small society dedicated to developing perfect societies. Experiment that failed in most situations falling to ills of laziness and selfishness |
| Reform Movements | Temperance, women’s rights, education, abolition to name a few |
| Tensions between the North and South | Slavery was the largest issue that caused tension |
| Manifest Destiny | Belief that the US would eventually stretch across the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific |
| Lincoln Douglas Debates | Slavery was the big issue and whether it would spread, Lincoln was against the spread of slavery, Douglas was in favor of popular sovereignty or allowing voters to decide |
| Fort Sumter | When the Confederacy(South) fired on Fort Sumter the Civil War started |
| Eli Whitney | Invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts. Cotton gin allowed more cotton to be harvested and interchangeable parts allowed for faster production of guns(goods) |
| Steam Power and Canal Building | allowed farmers to ship their goods to people around the country |
| Monroe Doctrine | Policy by the United States that the western hemisphere is off limits to European colonization |
| Transcendentalists | wanted people to get involved in reforming society and breaking with traditional thought |
| Fugitive Slave Act | Forced all Americans to help catch runaway slaves |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | Allowed people of Kansas and Nebraska to decide on the slavery issue by voting(Popular sovereignty) |