| Question | Answer |
| brigham young | the new leader of mormons after smith died, led mormons to utah, thrived under him, wast the governor, under him pioneers built roads, bridges, irrigation, militia. government came to remove him, almost burned SL city, but he stepped down to keep peace |
| abolitionists | people who opposed slavery |
| mormons | new religion, joseph smith said he found golden plates from an angel, they were the book of mormon, people opposed it, smith was brutally murdered, brigham young took charge, many people migrated to utah, polygamy was accepted, community thrived |
| dorthea dix | prison and asylum reforms, fought for better prison conditions and asylums for the insane |
| manifest destiny | expanding west, oregon, texas, california, war with mexico |
| john slidell | sent by polk to buy california territory, but mexico denied the offer |
| American anti-slavery society | created by Garrison and followers, main figure was wendell phillips. wore no cotton and ate no cane sugar |
| george caitlin | an american painter who painted native americans, fought for the preservation of nature. proposed the national park. |
| treaty of guadelupe hidalgo | ended the war with mexico, gave america texas and california, we gave them 15 million dollars |
| samuel morse | morse code, strung wire from washington to baltimore and tapped out what hath god wrought |
| lucretia mott | a women's rights activist present at the seneca falls convention |
| lowell system | a method of factory management where mill workers were housed in clean boardinghouses, strictly supervised both at work and at home, and were paid unusually good wages. women worked there and liked it. wrote a literary magazine |
| cult of domesticity | when women were expected to act as a perfect mother and wife and maintain the house, also act religiously |
| james k polk | was involved in the disputes over oregon, led america to win the mexican american war and obtain land |
| cyrus field | stretched a wire from newfoundland to ireland, |
| Hinton Helper/impending crisis of the south | |
| oregon territory | US and UK fought over it, americans migrated on the oregon trail, treaty of 1818 (joint occupation) |
| transcendentalism | individualists, supporters of the arts, advocators of the wilderness, anti-industrialism, against working conditions, child labor, and pollution. romanticism, rejected puritanism, utopias |
| wilmot proviso | prohibited slavery in any territory acquired in the mexican war. south disagreed, |
| seneca falls convention | an influential women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, 1848. organized by New York women upon the visit by Lucretia Mott, famous for her speaking ability, which women rarely had. Elizabeth cady stanton |
| know nothing/american party | a anti foreign group formed to regulate immigration and naturalization and deport aliens. they also spread lies |
| william lloyd garrison | fervent abolitionist and feminist, alienated some members because of split agenda |
| mexican american war | someone who's livelihood depends on their wages |
| "factory girls" | helper hated slavery ad blacks, book said white non slave owners suffered the worst, the book was banned in the south |
| cyrus mccormick | invented them mechanical mower-reaper, helped the west, |
| eli whitney | |
| clintons big ditch | the erie canal, |
| irish immigration | americans treated irish horribly, they were uneducated, poor, and had to live in slums. were almost as low as blacks, were an influential voting group, controlled police departments and such |
| webster-ashburton treaty | a treaty about the borders of maine, we got more territory,but the british got the halifax-quebec route |
| second great awakening | the growing conservative reaction against the liberalism in religion, started in south then spread, sparked all kinds of reforms, spread to the frontier, methodists and baptists most successful. |
| horace mann | leader in education reform, campaigned for better schoolhouses, longer school terms, higher pay for teachers, and an expanded curriculum. |
| john deere | invented the steel plow that could be pulled by horses |
| mexican cession | an area of mexico (texas) that wanted to be annexed by the US and was fought over int the mexican american war |
| cotton kingdom | the cotton producing region of the US, the south. plantations |
| wage slaves | cotton gin, separated the seed from the fiber, 50 times more effective than handpicking |
| steven douglas | the little giant, helped henry clay |
| samuel slater | father of the factory system, built first successful cotton mill |
| canals turnpikes and railroads | all very important inventions in transportation and delivering goods |
