Apush unit 2 Flashcards
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Articles of confederation
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Before the constitution, 1777, ultimately failed
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Land ordinance of 1785
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Old northwest should be sold to pay off debt
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Northwest ordinance
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Northwest Territories gave gov land to be sectioned off the citizens
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Great compromise
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Called for representation by pop. In house and equal in senate
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Society of the Cincinnati
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Continental Army officers
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Quakers
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Founded the first anti slavery society
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Civic virtue
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Democracy depended on unselfish commitment of each citizen
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Republican motherhood
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Mothers were devoted to their family’s
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Henery knox
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Secretary of war
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Bill of rights
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Written by James Madison
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Juicary act
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Fed court system making the sumoreme court
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Bank of the US
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Print own money and make a national currency
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Whiskey rebellion
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Distillers strongly opposed the whiskey tax and it was put down by wash
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Neutrality proclamation
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Nuetraity to the Britain and France war
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Battle of fallin timbers
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British would not help feeing Indians
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Treaty of greenville
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Indians gave up a lot of land to US
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John jay
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Chief Justice chosen to negotiate
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Jays treaty
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Britain said they would leave the posts in the US and pay for damaged ships
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Pinckney’s treaty
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Spain granted Americans free navigation of the Mississippi
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Dictator from France
Convinced king of Spain to give Louisiana area to France
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Alien laws
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Raised requirements for aliens
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Warhawks
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Wanted war
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Naturalization law
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Reduced the requirement of 14 years to 5
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Albert Gallatin
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Sectetory of tres to Jeff
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Judiciary act of 1801
Created 16 new judges
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James Madison
New sec of state
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Lausana purchase
We got the land from France with natgaotioan
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General James Wilkinson
Corrupt military gov of Louisiana territory
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Orders in council
Closed ports under France controls
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Chesapeake affair
Brit ship attacked ours
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The embargo
Banned exportation of any good to any country’s
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War of 1812
Americans tried to invade Canada and fought off by Canadians
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Oliver hazard Perry
Captured a British fleet on Lake Erie
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Francis Scott key
Wrote the star spangled banner
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Andrew Jackson
Defeated New Orleans
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Treaty of Ghent
France and us stopped fighting
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Hartford Conventions
Finachal assistsnse from wash, 2/3 got for anything to go through Congress, no slavery, no 3/5
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Nationalism
Expansion and unity
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Henry clay
Created a plan or the us economy
Introduced a compromise that would decide weather or not Missouri would be a solace for free state
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American system
Stint banking system, protective tariff, network of roads and canals
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James monroe
Sent to Paris by Jeff. to buy as much land as he could for 10mil
Won election and this started the period era of good feelings
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Panic of 1819
First financial panic (over speculation)
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Talladge amendment
For difficult for missiori to become a state
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Peculiar insition
Expression used to describe slavery and its economic impact
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Missouri compromise
Missouri was now a slave state
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John Marshall
Said bank was constitutional
Chief Justice was a Federalist Judge under Jeff.
Allowed the state I give the acres to private spectators
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John Quincy Adams
Sec of state to Monroe
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Amgle-American convention
Allowed Americans to share new found fisheries with Canada
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Florida purchase treaty
Spanish gave Florida to US
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Monroe doctrine
Warning European powers to back off and do not try to conolniz
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Industrial revolution
Was in England and moved to America because of the increasing use of machines
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Eli Whitney
Created to cotton gin
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Tariff of 1816
To protect American merchants
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Sewing machine
Created by Elias Howe
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Lancaster Turnpike
Hard serfaced highway thats was from Philadelphia to Lancaster
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Cumberland road
Western Maryland to Illinois
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Transportation revolution
People started moving west
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Market revolution
Transformed the American economy and it changed to people would by and use instead of make their own
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2nd Continental congress
Massachusetts called to draft new constitution
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Lord Sheffield
Made a pamphlet that said that Britain could win back America’s trade without repealing navigation laws
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Alexander Hamilton
For central gov.
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Large state plan (Virgina plan)
First framework for the constitution
| Says that reps in congress should be based on states pop.
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Small state plan (New Jersey plan)
Equal representation in Congress (nothing to do with state size)
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Three-fifth compromise
Slaves counted as 3/5 of a person within the about of electoral votes the state has
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Common law
Laws that are super specific with every possible detail
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Anti-Federalists
Didn’t like strong federal government they feared it would take away power of the people
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Federalists
Wanted Strong federal government
| Wealthy and educated
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Virginia statue for religious freedom
Made by Thomas Jefferson, stated that religion should not be imposed on anybody and that each person decided their own faith
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Anti-slavery society 1775
Founded by the Quakers
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Funding at par
Federal gov. Would pay off its debts at face value
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National debt
Hamilton believed that it was a nessissity
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First tariff
It imposed taxes on certain import
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Excise tax
Tax on a few domestic items including whiskey
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Thomas Jefferson
Strongly opposed the bank
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Two party system
Two opposing political party’s
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Democratic-republicans
Jefferson’s side
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Federalists
Hamitions side
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French Revolution
The French revolt against British crown
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Miami confederacy
Alliance of 8 Indian nations
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John Adams
Beat jefferson in the second election
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Talleyrand
French foreign minister
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Convention of 1800
Where Napoleon signed the treaty of stop a potential war
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Sedition act
Anyone who impeded the policies of the gov. Or defrayed it’s office would be fined aloe and imprisoned
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Whispering campaigns
Federalists accusing Jefferson of bad things
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Revolution of 1800
No Federalists became pres after this election
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Republican-democratic congress
Repealed the judiciary act and kicked out the 16 new judges
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Marbury vs. Madison 1803
Madison cut judge Marbury salary so Marbury sued him
Court said that he had a right to his pay but the court didn’t have the authority to force Madison to pay him
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Samuel chase
A court justice that democratic republicans congress tried to impeach
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Robert Livingston
Went with James Monroe to buy land, signed treaty’s
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Arron burr
Got dropped from Jefferson’s cabinet and joined a group of extremists Federalists who plotted secession of New England and New York
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Non intercourse act
Opened trade to every country except France and Britain
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Macon’s bill no. 2
Reopened American trade with the entire world but it said that if Britain or France repealed its commercial restrictions
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Twelfth congress
The war hawks wanted to go to war with the British and eliminate the Indian threats
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William Henry Harrison
Gov. Of the Indiana territory; defeated the Shawnee at the battle of tippeanoe
One of the whigs pres. Nominee
Defeated Van Buren to win the election of 1840
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Battle of the Thames
Gen Harrison’s army took over tithe British at Detroit at fort Malden
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Rush-bagot agreement
Was made between U.S and Britain and it limited the navel arrangement on the Great Lakes
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Tariff of 1816
Was made to protect American companies
Added tax to super cheap British goods
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Era of good feelings
During when Monroe was pres
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Land act of 1820
A buyer could buy 80 acres at 1.25
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McCuilloch vs. Maryland
An attempt by Maryland to destroy a branch of the bank of the US by imposing a tax on the banks
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Cohens vs Virginia
Involved the cohens appealing to Supreme Court after being found guilty of illegally selling lottery tickets
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Gibbons vs Ogden
Came up when New York and tried to give a private company a monopoly of waterborne commerce between New York and New Jersey (no other company could use the waterway)
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Fletcher vs peck
Georgia legislature granted 35mil acres to private speculators, next legislator cancelled the transaction
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Dartmouth college vs Woodward
Dartmouth college was given a charter by king George but new hamsirer wanted to take it away
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Andrew Jackson
General who won the battle of New Orleans
Went to Florida and captured spanish posts
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George canning
British foreign secretary asked the American minister in London if the us would hand togetherness in a joint declaration (basically warning the Europeans to keep away from Latin America
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Russo-American treaty
The Russians retreated farther north north into Alaska
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Rendezvous system
Fur trappers would meet with traders for the east to exchange beaver pelts for manufactured goods
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The ancient order of Hibernians
A secret society to fight landlords
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Known nothing party
Native Americans who opposed immigrants
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Samual Slater
Father of the factory system in America
Stole British plans for textile machinery
First machine to spin cotton
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Elias Howe
invented the sewing machine
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Laws of free incorpation
Enabled businessmen to create corporations without applying for any individual charters from legislation
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Catharine Beecher
Urged women to become teachers
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Cult of domesticity
Culture that glorified the customary functions of a homemaker (women)
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John Deere
Made the steel plow
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Mcormick reaper
A horse drawn mechanical reaper that cut and gathered crops fast
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Robert Fulton
Made the first steam boat
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Erie Canal
Constructed by gov. DeWitt Clinton (gov of New York)
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Pony express
Was established to carry mail from st.joseph Missouri to Sacramento California (collapsed 18 months after bc of low money)
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Corrupt bargain
Andrew Jackson thought since clay convinced people to vote for Quincy Adams and Jackson thought there was foul play
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John Quincy Adams
Pres. After Jefferson
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Spoils system
Democrats replaced public officials with illiterate and incomplete people, rewarding supporters with gov jobs
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Tariff of abominations/Yankee tariff
Increase on imports, hated by southerners
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Columbia Convention
Called for the tariff to be void in South Carolina
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Society for propagating the gospel among Indians
Made to Christianize Indians
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Indian removal act
It moved more than 100,00 Indians west of the Mississippi (trail of tears)
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Black hawk war
Black hawk Led Indians to fight the relocation
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Nicholas Biddle
The pres of bank out US held a possible un constitucional amount of power
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Daniel Webster
Him an Henry clay presented a bill to renew the banks charter
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Financial panic
Jackson destroyed the second US bank and it heavily contributed to the panic
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Martin Van Buren
Andrew Jackson’s choice as his successor in the election
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Divorce bill
Called for separating the gov. Banking
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Stephen Austin
Promised to bring families into Texas
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Santa Anna
Dictator of Mexico, removed Texans local rights and started to raise army to suppress the rebelling Texans
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Sam Houston
Commander and chief for Texas army
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Battle of son Jacinto
Gen. Houston captured santa Anna and made him sign a treaty to give Texas to them
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Two party system
Whigs vs Democrats
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Doctrine of deism
Relied on science rather than the Bible
Did believe in a Supreme being
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Unitarianism
Came from deism, believed god existed
Appealed to intellectuals
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Second great awakening
Wave of religious fever
Women more involved with religion
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Peter Cartwright
A revivalist, traveling preacher who converted thousands to Christianity
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Charles Grandison Finney
One of the greatest revivalist preachers
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Joseph Smith
Formed the Mormon church when he deciphered the Book of Mormon (Illinois)
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Horace Mann
Campaigned for better school system
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Emma Willard
Huge part of creating a women’s secondary school
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Dorthy Dix
Traveled visiting asylums and pushed to improve the conditions within them
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American peace society
Led by William Ladd
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American temperance society
Tried to persuade people to stop drinking
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Neal S Dow
“Father of prohibition” supporter the Maine law
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Maine law of 1851
Banned manufacturing and sale of liquor in Maine
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Seneca falls
Women rights convention and said to rewrite the Declaration of Independence to include women
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Robert Owen
Founded a utopian community in New Harmony Indiana to seek human betterment
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Brook farm
Founded in Massachusetts, Utopian community
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Greek revival
architecture came to America
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Hudson River school
Expelled at romantic art
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James Fenimore Cooper
First American novelist to gain world fame
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Transcendent movement
Believed that knowledge transcended the senses and can’t found just by observation knowledge comes from within
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Transcendentalist poet and philosopher, urged American writers to forget European traditions
Wrote “the American scholar”
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Henry David Thoreau
Transdentslist who believed that people should ignore bodily and pursue truth through study and meditation
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One of the most famous poets to come from America (adopted by the less cultured)
