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King Caucus   show
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show alleged deal between presidential candidates John Q. Adams and Henry Clay to throw the election, to be decided by the house of representatives, in Adam's favor. accusation became the rallying cry for Jackson supporters (majority of the popular vote)  
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show The tariff sought to protect northern/ western farmimg products from competition with foreign imports; however, the resulting tax on foreign goods would raise the cost of living in the South and would cut into the profits of New England's industrialists  
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“South Carolina Exposition”1828   show
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Rachel Jackson   show
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“King Andrew the First”   show
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show A veto by Jackson that prevented the Maysville road from being funded by federal money since it only benefited Kentucky. This was a blow to Clay's American System, and it irritated the West.  
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Tariff of 1832   show
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show President Jackson to use the army and navy to collect duties on the Tariffs of 1828/1832. SCs ordinance of nullification had declared these tariffs and force act null and void, and SC would not collect duties on them. The Force Act was never invoked bec  
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wildcat banks   show
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show A.J.meant to stop land speculation caused by states printing paper money without (gold or silver) backing it. It stopped the land speculation and the sale of public lands went down sharply. The panic of 1837 followed.  
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Whigs   show
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Panic of 1837   show
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show popular term for pro-jackson state banks that received the bulk of federal deposits when andrew jackson moved to dismantle the bank of the united states in 1833.  
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William Henry Harrison   show
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Eli Whitney   show
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Isaac Singer   show
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show Chaperoned boarding house; women less pay for same work; unmarried women only for money need and no domestic duty distractions  
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John Deere   show
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Cyrus McCormick   show
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Robert Fulton   show
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“Tom Thumb”   show
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show American fur trader and financier, he founded the fur-trading post of Astoria and the American fur company  
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Samuel F.B. Morse   show
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show American businessman who laid the first telegraph wire across the Atlantic. This cut down the time it took for a message to be sent from Europe to American and vice-versa.  
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show A second religious fervor that swept the nation. It converted more than the first. It also had an effect on democratic ideas, importance of individual, and other reform movements  
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Joseph Smith   show
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show The successor to the Mormons after the death of Joseph Smith. He was responsible for the survival of the sect and its establishment in Utah, thereby populating the would-be state.  
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show Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education, he was a prominent proponent of public school reform, and set the standard for public schools throughout the nation.  
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Noah Webster   show
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show ohio teacher-preacher of rare power. his grade-school readers, first published in the 1830's, sold 122 million copies in the following decades. _____ readers had home lasting lessons in morality, patriotism, and idealism.  
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton   show
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show New England teacher and author who advocated for the improved treatment of the mentally ill- created the first mental asylums.  
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show assembly 1848, at Seneca Falls, New York, that launched the woman suffrage movement in the United States. Seneca Falls was the home of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who conceived and directed the convention  
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New Harmony   show
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Brook Farm   show
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Oneida Community   show
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Shakers   show
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show american painter who painted events and the people involved in the american revolution. famous and notable for these paintings  
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show 19th century author; "rip can winkle" and "legend of sleepy hollow"; US ambassador to spain in 1840s;  
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show a belief which stressed self-reliance, self- culture, self-discipline, and that knowledge transcends instead of coming by reason. promoted the belief of individualism and caused an array of humanitarian reforms.  
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show American transcendentalist who was against slavery and stressed self-reliance, optimism, self-improvement, self-confidence, and freedom. He helped push the transcendentalist movement.  
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show famous American transcendentalist who turned to the environment for inspiration. In 1854 Thoreau published his book, Walden, which was about his time spent living in isolation and his different feelings on society.  
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William Lloyd Garrison   show
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show one of the most prominent african american figures in the abolitionist movement. escaped from slavery in maryland. published his own antislavery newspaper called the north star and wrote an autobiography that was published in 1845.  
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show Black American activist who demanded the immediate end of slavery in the new nation  
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Abolition   show
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American Colonization Society   show
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show The first national temperance organization, it was created by evangelical Protestants. Created in 1826, they followed Lyman Beecher.total abstinence from alcohol. They denounced the evil of drinking and promoted the expulsion of drinkers from church  
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show Known as the "father of modern revivalism," he was a pioneer of cooperation among Protestant denominations. He believed that conversions were human creations instead of the divine works of God. His "Social Gospel" offered salvation to all  
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show document signed by the majority of the people present at the Seneca Falls Convention; based upon the US Declaration of Independence, "grand basis for attaining the civil, social, political, and religious rights of women."  
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show intentional communities created to perfect American society  
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