chapter 8-Spirit of Reform Flashcards
In politics, when the party leaders choose candidates they hold a ____ in secret.
Party caucus
In politics, when there are large open meetings to choose candidates, they hold a _____.
Party Convention
Andrew Jackson _____ political participation by opening politics for the common man.
increased political participation
Andrew Jackson was staunchly against the _____ and took federal deposit to state banks.
2nd Bank of the United States
Andrew Jackson’s bank policies will lead to an economic collapse called _____.
The Panic of 1837
Andrew Jackson chooses party loyalists for government jobs in what is termed ____.
The Spoils System
Andrew Jackson’s Indian policy included moving many Indian tribes to ____ during the _____.
Oklahoma along the Trail of Tears
The Gag Rule in Congress was instituted to stop the debates centering on ______.
Abolition of slavery
When South Carolina threatens to secede, Andrew Jackson used the ____ to stop them.
Force Bill
The Tariff of Abominations caused South Carolina to ____ the law and starts a crisis over states rights.
Nullify
Who was the leader of the South Carolina Nullifiers?
John C. Calhoun
The ____ immigrants were almost always poor, uneducated, and catholic during the early 1800s.
Irish immigrants
The ____ immigrants were usually protestant, educated, and with some money to start their lives over again in America during the early 1800s.
German immigrants
The anti-immigrant feelings led to the ____ movement in America in the mid-1800s.
nativism
The Anti-immigrant political movement of the mid-1800s was called the _____ party.
American Party
This was a religious revival of the early 1800s.
Second Great Awakening
According to the beliefs of the Second Great Awakening, who was to fix societal problems in the early 1800s.
Christians
Who was one preacher of the Second Great Awakening?
Charles Finney
This religious movement was led by Joseph Smith and Brigham Young.
Mormonism
Lyman Beecher believed that _____ should help to build a better society.
Christian religion
A feeling of spiritualism, individualism, and ebracing of nature was center in this literary movement in the mid-1800s.
Romanticism
Who was an important Romanticist writer.
Emily Dickinson
List two utopian societies
Shakers
Millerites
The beauty of the universe and an inner light was the center of the ____ literaty movement
Transcendentalism
Who was one of the leading Transcendentalist?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What was the mass media called of the mid-1800s that spread news to the common people?
Penny Press
List five reform movements of the mid-1800s.
Prisons Education Women's rights Temperance Slavery
To get rid of alcohol from society was called ____ in the mid-1800s.
Temperance
Where was the center of the Women’s rights movement in the mid-1800s?
Seneca Falls, NY
List three women predominant in the Women’s conference at Seneca Fall, NY
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
Mary Lyon
List two leading advocates of better public education.
Wiley
Horace Mann
What was the greatest evil dark spot on society in the mid-1800s.
slavery
To get of slavery, the ____ movement was created.
abolitionist movement
To get of slavery slowly over time is called ______.
Gradual abolition
Who was the founder of the New England Anti-Slavery Society?
William Lloyd Garrison
The Back to Africa movement established many Colonization societies that encouraged freed slaves to move to what would become the country of ____ in West Africa>
Liberia
What was William Lloyd Garrison’s newspaper called?
The Liberator
List five Abolitionists
Lyman Beecher Frederick Douglass Elijah Lovejoy Sojourner Truth David Walker
The first Abolitionists were primarily ____
New England preachers
The immediate freedom for slaves is called ___
Emancipation
What slave rebellion frightened many whites throughout the southern states in the 1830s?
Nat Turner’s rebellion
Who had a printing press destroyed and life threatened in Illinois because he printed abolitionist ideas?
Elijah Lovejoy
Who was a leading African American abolitionist and run away slave?
Frederick Douglass
