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US Historrry U3
History 1483
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Monroe doctrine | Saying the United States stays out of other country affairs. And no longer open to colonization from Europe, was issued in 1823. Still influences foreign affairs |
| Missouri Compromise | Maine enters as a free state while Missouri enters as a slave state, slavery being banned in Louisiana. 1820 |
| Ordinance of Nullification | Tariffs of 1828 n 1832 wouldnt be enforced in S. Carolina. |
| Nat turner revolt | Slave uprising in Virginia 1831 designed to spread terror among whites to protest slavery. Resulted in censored mail, exclusion of "incendiary forms of Lit" harsher slave codes & developed a siege mentality |
| Transcendentalists | Members of philopsophic movement in US which argued truth in world gained by relying on ones instincts and intuitions cos each person is spark of god reflected in the intuition. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau |
| Charles G. Finney | Preacher of Second Great Awakening who emphasized individual conversion, collective reform & perfection of society. Message supported social reforms: Temperance & abolitionism |
| Horace mann | Mass. reformer fought for uni public ed. as means to preserve democracy to instill American values. Ed. essential in creating responsible and moral citizens. WOrked to increase funding for schools and improved prep & pay for teachers |
| Henry David Thoreau | Transcendentalist and friend of Emerson wrote "On Civil disobediance" and live life of principle and protest unjust laws & wars |
| Dorothea Dix | Leader in efforts to improve conditions in asylums & prisons to promote rehab. Her works still in affect to this day in the treatment of mentally ill |
| Robert Owen | Secular communalist who attempted to create a model society with good schools & healthy work for all citizens New Harmony in Indiana |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Abolitionist leader, publisher of The Liberatore, founder of American Anti-Slavery Society adovocated for immediate emancipation of slaves. |
| Seneca Falls Convention | Meeting convened 1848 NY by Elizabeth Cady Staton and Lucretia Mott to discuss problems confronting women which issued the Declaration of Sentiments conecing treatment of women & inaugurated woemns rights movement |
| Rendezvous | Annual summer mtng held in Rocky Mt. of traders from St. Louis w/ mtn men and Indian trappers to exchange goods & beaver pelts. |
| Santa Fe Trail | Route btwn MO & NM used mainly by commercial traders and military personnel not by settlers. Early yrs was int'l trade route btwn US & Mexico, |
| Manifest Destiny | Conviction that spread in 1840s the superior institutions and culture of the US gave Americans God-given rights even an obligation to expand across the continent |
| Oregon Question | Dispute w/ GB over n. boundary of US from Rky Mtn to Pacific. Desire of both US & GB to end dispute due to over looming conflic led to Oregon treaty |
| Oregon trail | Rte W. from MO to Iowa along Platte R. thru S. Pass & down Snake & columbia R. to Willamette Valley traveled by many settlers beginning in 1840. an essential trail to buidling the US into the nation |
| Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo | Treaty negotiated by Nicholas Trist & signed in 1848 which ended the Mexican war. Grants the northern half of mexico to the US and recognized rio grande the southern border of Texas in return for 15 Mill. |
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