Age Of Reform Flashcards
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William Lloyd Garrison
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- member of American anti-slavery society
- went door-to-door to give people papers about how they were connected to slavery
- signed a petition to send to Congress to end slavery
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Age of reform
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Rebirth of religion in America
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Horrace Mann
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- Mandatory attendance were kids had to go to school
- literate population
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Gag rule
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- no abolitionist letters would be opened in Congress
- slave power runs America
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Stephen Austin
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- inherits land grant
- Texas becomes an independent nation because a lack of care from the Mexican government
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Manifest destiny
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God wants us to expand
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Henry Clay
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- made to compromise of 1850
- runaway slave owners can be helped by US government to find it
- outlaws slavery buying in Washington DC
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Kansas Nebraska act
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-popular soveirgn won’t work
Split between free and slavery opinionated people
