3rd 9wks Test Flashcards
proposed a compromise tariff and ended the crisis in 1833
Henry Clay
The idea that states can reject federal laws
Nullification
nationalist who later defended sectionalism
John C. Calhoun
parties use rumors and lies to attack each other during political campaigns
mudslinging
presidents give people keep position in their administration if they supported them
Spoils System
describe the Indian removal act of 1830
- gave Jackson the right to negotiate moving Indians to reserved territory
- Jackson believed it would allow the natives to keep their way of life it would allow Americans to get the land they wanted
describe stay and local of the Jacksonian democracy
A larger number of state and local officials were elected rather than appointed
campaigning of the Jacksonian democracy
presidential candidates now had to conduct national campaigns
popular election of the Jacksonian democracy
in the election of 1812 only South Carolina use the old system
founder of the first American colony in Texas
Stephen F. Austin
first president of the republic of Texas
Sam Housten
leader of the Mormon church after Joseph Smith died
Brigham Young
Opened the Santa Fe Trail
William Becknell
treaty that ended the war between the United States and Mexico
Guadalupe Hidalgo
last battle between Mexico and Texas where Texas won independence
San Jacinto
religious group settled in Utah
Mormons
Believe that the United States was sure to expand from sea to shining sea
manifest destiny
land bought for 10 million from Mexico for transcontinental railroad
Gadsden Purchase
name three results of the treaty that ended the war with Mexico
- recognize Texas is part of the US
- made Rio Grande River the border between Texas and Mexico
- United States had to pay Mexico 15 million for land
push factors
- religious and political turmoil
- population growth in crowd
- crop failures
- industrial revolution
- agriculture changes
pull factors
- abundant land
- economic opportunity
- freedom
wrote the first detective story
Edgar Allan Poe
wrote Moby Dick
Herman Melville
sounder of the Hudson river school of painting
Asher Durand
wrote about simple life at Walden Pond
Henry David Thoreau
opportunities for blind people
Samuel G Howe
opportunities for deaf people
Thomas H. Gallaudet
education
Horace Mann
asylums and prisons
Dorthea Dix
spoke in public about personal witness of slavery
Angelina Grimke
famous abolitionist who lectured about his experiences as a slave
Frederick Douglas
escaped slave who repetitively risked life to help other slaves escape along the underground railroad
Harriet Tubman
african-American woman who spoke out publicly Against slavery and leader in struggle for women’s rights
sojourner Truth
organized Seneca Falls convention in 1848
Elizabeth Stanton
Man in debate who was against nullification
Daniel Webster
worked in the temperance and anti-slavery movement and built the women’s movement international organization
Susan B Anthony
Emigrant
person who leaves the country
Immigrant
person who comes to the country
Group with call of restricting the influence of immigrants in the US
nativists
belief that people find truth within themselves the feeling and intuition
transcendentalist
two people who are transcendentalist
Margaret Fuller and Rolf Waldo Emerson
