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apush unit 4 quiz 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| thomas gallaudet | renowned american pioneer in the education of the deaf; helped fund and was for many years the principal of the first institution for the education of the deaf in north america |
| samuel gridley howe | a prominent 19th century us physician, abolitionists, and advocate for education of the blind. father of pulitzer prize winning writers |
| auburn system | a penal method of the 19th century in which inmates worked during the day in groups and were kept in solitary confinement at night, with enforced silence at all times |
| american colonization society | founded in 1817 for the purpose of transporting blacks back to africa, most blacks did not want this because they were mostly american born african americans |
| american antislavery society | founded by william loyd garrison who advocated the immediate abolition of the slavery, had more than 250,000 members |
| abolitionism william lloyd garrison; the liberator | radical abolitionist who favored immediate uncompensated emancipation of enslaved people, published newspaper known as The Liberator |
| liberty party | minor political party in the US that advocated for the abolitionist cuase and argued that constitution was anti slavery document. broke away from american anit slavery society |
| frederick douglass; "The north star" | an escaped slave who became powerful abolitionist and orator. described life as a slave and published the newspaper the North Star |
| harriett tubman | leader of the underground railroad; conductor who helped slaves esape. helped over 300 slaves find freedom |
| sojourner truth | slave who escaped in 1827, black abolitionist and a woman, met prejudice, wanted free blacks to be quiet members of the movement |
| david walker | black abolitionist called for the immediate emancipation of slaves, wrote the Appeal, called for end to white slavery, called for physical revolt |
| antebellum period | time between formation of US government and outbreak of civil war |
| transcendentalists | philosophy by ralph waldo emerson in which each person has direct communication with God and nature, no need for organized churches |
| ralph waldo emerson: the american scholar | american transcendentalist against slavery, stressed self reliance, optimism, self improvement, freedom, self confidence, american scholar is emerson's address at harvard, declared intellectual independence from europe |
| henry david thoreau "walden, "on civil disobedience" | american transcendentalist, against a govt that supported slavery, wrote down beliefs in Walden, ocd is essay arguing that people should avoid allowing government to make them agents of injustice, disgust with slavery and the mexican american war |
| brook farm | transcendentalist utopian experinment in MA, inspired by socialist concepts of charles fourier |
| george ripley | american social reformer, unitarian minister, journalist w transcendentalism, founded brook farm |
| margaret fuller | american journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate associated w the american transcendentalism movement, explored freedom for women in writing |
| theodore parker | american transcendentalist , minister of unitarian church, reformer and abolitionists, quotes would later influence abe lincoln and mlkj |
| hudson river school | us independent art movement, romantic style, idea of divinity of nature |
| second great awakening | religious revival that took place after american revolution between 1790 and 1840 to restore simpler form of christianity |
| timothy dwight | president of yale college, led campus revivals that motivated young men to become evangelical preachers |
| joseph smith | founder of mormonism, created book of mormon, leader in the latter day saint movement, settled western us |
| brigham young | american leader in the latter day saint movement, considered a prophet, second president of mormon church |
| sarah and angelina grimke | sisters who toured new england lecturing against slavery, lectured both women and men, from charleston |
| lucretia mott | quaker who attended an anti slavery convention and party of women was not recognized. her and elizabeth cady stanton called first women's right convention in new york 1848 |
| mexican war (1846-1847) | mexican american conflict that was sparked by a dispute over the annexation of texas and border between texas and mexico. us acquired one half of mexican territory |
| zachary taylor | general that was a military leader in the mexican american war, 12th president of the us, war hero |
| stephen kearney | american general in mexican war, won at santa fe |
| winfield scott | us general hero in war of 1812 and defeated santa anna in the mexican war, member of congress known for wilmot proviso |
| john c fremont | a captain and explorer who was in california with several dozen well armed men when mexican war broke out, helped overthrow mexican rule by collaborating with american who had tried to raise banner of cali bear republic |
| california; bear flag republic | term given to the revolt against the mexican government by american settlers in california in 1846 by john fremont, led to us forced stationed in cali |
| treaty of guadalupe hidalgo (1848) | ended war between us and mexico, mexico lost 55% of territory, including cali, nevada, utah, new mexico, most of ari and colo and parts of okla kansas and wyoming |
| mexican cession | the land that mexico gave to us, land from texas to cali north of rio grande |
| clayton-bulwer treaty (1850) | treaty signed between america and britain in 1850, stipulating that neither of the two nations would fortify or seek exclusive control over any of future isthmian water way, pertaining to the nicaragua area |
| gadsden purchase (1853) | 1853 treaty in which the us bought from mexico parts of what is now southern arizona and southern nm, american belief in manifest destiny, southerners wanted land to build southern transcontinental railroad |
| matthew c perry; japan | military leader who convinced japanese to sign a treaty in 1853 with us, allowed for a commerical foot in japan which was helpful in creating relationship with japan |
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