Test 3 Terms Flashcards
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Dorothea Dix
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- protested insane asylums treatment
- age of reform
- went around and began to try and understand everything
- advocate to change treatment of people
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Mormons
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who: Joseph smith
when: 1839
what: called it a utopian society rather than religion
- 1 group of them
- polygamy is an issue with the society
- brigham young
- most successful society
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abolitionism & women’s right
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- idea of trying to abolish slavery
- 3 reasons to abolish slavery
- humanitarians: didn’t like whip usage
- destruction of family (selling to other people)
- democrats: denial of political rights and civil rights
- perfectionist: no chance to improve themselves
- humanitarians: didn’t like whip usage
- 1820’s most in US did not think it was subject to federal control
- slavery was wrong but no responsibility to fight it
- most believed colonization
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William Lloyd Garrison
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- main objection
- immediate abolition with no compensation
- 1831 the liberator dealt with abolitionist attitude
- did not want to get involved politically
- took constitution copy and burnt it
- supported women’s role in help
- some helped abolition
- some take up temperance
- some went to women’s rights
- how & why: identity- trying to stick up for what is right
- wanting to speak up and make a difference
- hated for it
- everything ruined by mobs and regular people against womens rights and so on
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Nullification Crisis
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- nullifiers wanting to take away the laws of the United States
- President Jackson very upset about it
- made a bold statement in 1832
- told the nullifiers they could talk however they wanted but if blood came involved; things would get heated
- SC didn’t take seriously and put together a convention
- this passed an ordinance of nullification that prohibited tariffs on duties in the state after feb. 1833
- Legislature put together an army & weapons
- jackson began military preparations ( 50,000 men)
- jackson tried to negotiate
- tried to lower tariff
- warned about the laws of US and needed to keep them
- sort of made a threat
- Calhoun resigned as vice and took senator place
- trying to find peace solution for this crisis
- march 1833
- provided compromise tariff
- passed force bill ( president had right to pass & enforce laws)
- extended dead line for nullification to see how it would work out
- SC satisfied w/ compromise
- lowered tariffs over time period
- how & why: affected P because going against president
- may have lead to civil war
- arguing between legislature and senate
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The compromise of 1850
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- US had a lot of land, wondering whether to be free or not
- Cali wanting to be a free state but would throw off the balance
- Texas claiming land all the way to Santa Fe
- DC still had slavery (nations capital)
- according to compromise Texas would give up the land but get paid $10 mil
- slave trade abolished in the DC area
- Cali was a free state
- Fugitive slave act passed
- slaves were never really free
- could be captured any time after they ran away
- could be forced back into slavery
- paid if captured
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Romanticism
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- against the age of reason
- change & growth
- the essence of like for individuals and institutions
- valued feeling & intuition over pure thought
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Treaty of Guadalupe
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- 1848
- gave the U.S- Cali, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona
- had to pay money to get land
- didn’t take Mexico due to racism
- they were different
- didnt know how to associate
- Texas wanting to be a slave state
- no bc it would throw off the balance in the senate
- how & why: identity- threatening the US society
- mexicans were diff than us & we didn’t like it
- attempting to be one whole society and so on
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Wilmat Provisio
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- 1849-50
- prohibit slavery from any land acquired
- obvi doesnt pass due to the S
- N likes it
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Free Soil Party
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- 1848
- northerners
- fighting for federal rights
- slavery should not spread
- going to follow wilmot provisio
- no african people to move W
- not just w/ slavery
- abolitionist like it because it is stopping slavery well a baby step
- barn burners
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Horace Mann
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Common school movement
Drafted 1837 Massachusetts law
Creating school board
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Bank War
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-Political dispute over whether to renew the charter of the 2nd bank
- time to close or not
1832- congress voted to rechart
1836- Jackson vetoed the charter
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The Oneida community
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- practiced complex marriage
- every man married to every women - manufacturing skills
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Seneca Falls Convention
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- declaration of sentiments
- Declaration of Independence with women pronouns
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Manifest Destiny
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- why US wanted to expand
- why moved to W
- spread religion
- spread democracy
- economic opportunity
- pride
