Terms 71-80 Flashcards
Specie Circular
Jackson’s economic policy in which all money had to backed with gold or silver
Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
French dude comes to US falls in love with it. He explored the U.S.’s history with democracy and its effect on the way people lived; claimed that people were closer to equality in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world
The Liberator
The first anti-slavery news paper. Was funded by William Loyld Garrison, in Boston. With this newspaper he was able to openly express his believes, but this was one of the first movements to the civil war
Horace Mann
An idealistic graduate of Brown University, Mann was secretary of the Massachusetts board of education. He was involved in the reformation of public education (1825-1850). Mann campaigned for better school houses, longer school terms, higher pay for teachers, and an expanded curriculum. He caused a reformation of the public schools that led to educational advances in text books by Noah Webster and Ohioan William H. McGuffey.
McGuffey Readers
Used as textbooks in homeschooling. Hammered lessons of morality, patriotism, and idealism
Manifest Destiny
It was the destiny of the Union to expand to the west
Wilmot Proviso
David Wilmot an antislavery Democrat proposed prohibiting slavery in all territories acquired from Mexico. Passed in the House but failed in the Senate
Compromise of 1850
California would be free, a more enforced Fugitive Slave act, popular sovereignty, and slave trade abolished in DC
Free Soil Party
The Free-Soil Party was organized by anti-slavery men in the north, democrats who were resentful at Polk’s actions, and some conscience Whigs. The Free-Soil Party was against slavery in the new territories. They also advocated federal aid for internal improvements and urged free government homesteads for settlers. This Free-Soil Party foreshadowed the emergence of the Republican party.
Commodore Mathew Perry
The Commodore of the U.S. Navy who compelled the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854.
