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Jackson, Reform,Term
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Harriet Tubman | Former slave who would eventually become an intricate part of the Underground Railroad |
| McGuffey Reader | The first national textbook, taught 3 R’s, moral education |
| Transcendentalists | Northern intellectuals who believed people can have their own consciousness and find the truth by having an intense kind of spiritual experience in nature |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Abolitionist who wrote The Liberator; against colonization; for the immediate emancipation of slaves with no compensations for owners |
| Corrupt Bargain | The Election of 1824 is referred to as this becuase Henry Clay got electors from Kentucky to cote for JQA, JQA won, and then JQA appointed Henry Clay Sec of State |
| Andrew Jackson | Was elected by western frontier people, lower social class members, and industrial workers who wanted to move up in society |
| Sarah and Angelina Grimke | Southern white women who famously became outspoken abolitionists and advocates for women’s rights |
| Declaration of Sentiments | A rewrite of the Declaration of Independence by women at the Seneca FAlls Convention |
| Frederick Douglass | Former slave, who became a leading abolitionist and orator; wrote several autobiographies and advocated for equality for all people |
| Nullification Crisis | Situation when Calhoun and South Carolina declared the federal tariff bipod, states can declare any federal law unconstitutional; Jackson threatened to use military, he also compromised with a lower tarrif |
| Manifest Destiny | Phrase to describe the American belief that the US should expand across North America because: God wanted us to, to spread democracy, to spread Christianity, and because the US needed more land. |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | A French political thinker who famously analyzed living standards and social conditions in his Democracy in America |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Treaty to end the Mexican War, established the Rio Grande RIver, not the Nueces, as the southern boundary of the US |
| Horace Mann | Led the reform movement on public education |
| Peggy Eaton Affair | Controversy surrounding the wives og Jacksons cabinet, eventually led to the resignation of all but one member of Jacksons cabinet. |
| Temperance Movement | Neal Dow led this movement to decrease domestic abuse, decrease crime, and strengthen family values |
| Martin Van Buren | This president set up the Independent Treasury Act in which federal deposits were made in independent institutions that were not associated with “pet banks” or the national bank (dealt with the Panic of 1837) |
| Tariff of Abomination | Passed in the attempt to protect northern American businesses by taking imports at a higher rate; would later set off the Nullification Crisis |
| Mormons | Religious group led by Joseph Smith; often attacked; Brigham Young led them out west to Utah for safety, there they built a thriving community |
| Wilmot Proviso | Plan to ban slavery in all of Mexican Cession; was not passed |
| Dorothea Dix | Superintendent of Army Nurses in the Civil War, would also found Americas first generation |
| Worchester v. Gerorgia | Court case effectively making Indian Removal unconstitutional; Jackson ignored the decision |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote Toms Cabin, participated in the abolitionist movement |
| Utopian Experiments | New Harmony, Indiana and Brookwood Farm, Massachusetts were examples of this |
| Henry David Thoreau | Leading Transcendentalist, famous for his work of Walden and Civil Disobedience |
| Second Great Awakening | Religious revival that led to many Christian’s believing that led to many Christian’s believing in free will- people are responsible for their own salvation (Finley, Beecher, etc) |
| 54’40 or Fight | Slogan of several people in the US who did not want America to just give GB any land in Oregon Country because there were many settlers from the US already in this territory (President Polk) |
| Gadsen Purchase | In 1853, the US bought this land from Mexico (Part of Arizona and New Mexico) so that a railroad could be build out west |
| Slidell-Trust Negotiations | Mission in which US representatives was sent down to Mexico to purchase California and New Mexico; Mexican government refused to even see this rep (one cause of mex-am war) |
| James K Polk | President of the US during the Mexican War, established the Rio Grande River, not he Nueces, as the southern boundary of the US |
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