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What was the 2,000 mile route taken by American settlers traveling west to settlements in Oregon, California, and Utah?

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Overland Trail (Adam M)

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Which Indian tribe successfully resisted removal?

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Seminoles in Florida. (Adam M)

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Brigham Young moved the Mormons to this present date state?

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Utah, Salt Lake City Area (Adam M)

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He decided to move the Mormons west to the salt lake valley. Successor of Joseph smith as leader of the Mormons?

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Brigham Young (Adam M)

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Who created the utopian New Harmony in Indiana?

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Robert Owen

Melanie H.

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Who is the most famous and influential slave that wrote a biography?

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Frederick Douglass

Melanie H.

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A bill that would have banned slavery from all territory acquired from Mexico.

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Wilmot Proviso

Melanie H.

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Adopted anti slavery anti annexation stance and captured enough votes to rob henry clay of the presidency giving it to Polk. Political party????

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Liberty party. (Adam M)

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U.S. Mexico pre war conflict

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The countries didn’t know the boundary of Texas. Either at the rio grande river or the nucces river. Could also be Mexico was mad at the unite states from people migrating into Texas pre 1845. Christianity, slaves, and the migration of 30,000 Americas upset Mexico. (Adam M)

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A procedural motion that required the House of Representatives to automatically table antislavery petitions and not consider them.

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Gag Rule

Sami S.

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Reform movement pushing abstinence from alcohol?

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Temperance

Sami S.

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Belief that the millennium was imminent and that Judgement Day would soon follow?
This attracted many followers in the mid-nineteenth century.
(Sami S.)

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Millennialism

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Christians had never deemed the consumption of _______ a sin until after the Second Great Awakening?

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Alcohol

Sami S.

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What is a term used to describe southern slavery by John C. Calhoun?

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Peculiar institutions

Melanie H.

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A board game created by Ann Abbot?

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Mansion of Happiness

Melanie H.

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A conversation of women’s right supports,held in Seneca Falls, New York.

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Seneca Falls Convention

Melanie H.

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This man created the common school movement

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Horace Mann

Melanie H.

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Who was the congregational minister that had a big impact on the Second Great Awakening?(intemperance)

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Lyman Beecher

Sami S.

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What did Harriet Jacob publish about Slavery?

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Sami S.

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Who was the leading spokesman for educational reform in America?
(common school movement)

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Horace Mann

Sami S.

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What was the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions?

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A women’s rights manifesto saying “all men and women are created equal.” (Tay)

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“Remember the Alamo”

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The battle cry for the rest of the war against Mexico. (Tay)

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Transcendentalism

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A loose set of ideas that looked to nature for inspiration and insights. Henry David Thoreau was a leading literary figure in this movement. (Tay)

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Phrenology

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A pseudoscience that focused on the relationship between the bumps and shape of the human head and character and personality. (Tay)

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Civil Disobedience

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Peaceful opposition by citizens to unjust government action; defended by transcendentalist philosopher, Henry David Thoreau. (Tay)

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Free Soil Party

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A third party that emerged in 1848, brought together disaffected Democrats who supported the Wilmot Proviso and resented the growing influence of Southerners within their party. Opposed the extension of slavery into the West. (Tay)

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Who was the main leader of immediatism?

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William Lloyd Garrison

Sami S.

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Joseph Smith was the founder of _______________?

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Church of the Latter Day Saints (Mormonism)

Sami S.

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What was the Moral Reform that led to

  • Political Expansion of Democracy
  • Religion -Slavery?
  • first half of the nineteenth century
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Second Great Awakening

Sami S.

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What party emerged during the 1848 election which supported the Wilmer proviso and resented the southerners growing power?

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Free soil Party (Adam M)

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What decided the presidential election of 1844 between Polk and Henry clay? Result was Texas joined the union as a slave state.

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Texas annexation (Adam M)

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What Ended the war between Mexico and the us. Mexican lost 55% of their land?

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo (Adam M)

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Why was Civil Disobedience such a good essay? What was Civil Disovedience?

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Thoreau editing.
Thorough.
The active and professed refusal to obey certain laws.
(Ash)

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This person was an African-American social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement.

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Frederick Douglass

Ash

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defenders of slavery included economics, history, religion, legality, social good, and even humanitarianism, to further their arguments

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Southern Attitudes about slavery

Ash

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This person was a schoolteacher that volunteered to provide religious instruction for women in Massachusetts

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Dorothea Dix

Melanie H.

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This newspaper proposed a $5,000 for anyone who would bring Garison to Georgia for trail.

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The Liberator

Melanie H.

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Brigham Young was a leader of what?

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Morman Migration

Melanie H.

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This essay written by Ralph Emerson. It was a wake up to Americans and reject the latest fashions of the marketplace.

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“The American Scholar”

Melanie H.

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These meetings which lasted for days in order to bring people to God. The meetings were active, exhausting, and emotional.

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Religious camp meetings

Ash

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General who at the Battle of San Jacinto secured the independence of Texas from Mexico?

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Sam Houston (Ariel L)

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These were created to get away from the sin and evils in the world. Often founded to further segregate races, these were meant to be a ‘perfect society’.

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Utopias

Ash

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respectively responded by appropriating the newly emerging national ideology of individualism. Whereas the national ideology of individualism uncritically embraced capitalism and imperialism and consequently exacerbated the antebellum tyrannies of slavery and racism, however, the authors used it as a frame of reference to understand critically the country’s development and its predicament

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Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville

Ash

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Established by Robert Finley in order to free slaves and send them back to Africa. This was based upon the idea that blacks and whites could not live peacefully together.

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American Colonization Society

Ash

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The idea that it was God’s destiny for America to expand westward.

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Manifest Destiny

Ash

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Utopian/Social Reformers attitudes about Americans

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Reformers were critical of Americans
(Obviously.. Why else would they be reforming??)

(Ash)

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designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1858. They envisioned the park as a place where people of all social and ethnic backgrounds could have fun and do their activities

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Central Park

Ash

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Senaca falls

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Women’s rights movement

Ariel L

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Coverture

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English common law doctrine, which treated women as legally dead once married (Ariel L)

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Penitentiary

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Shifted from punishment to reform (Ariel L)

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The ____________________ separated women and men’s roles.

Society defined the public world of work and politics as male, and private world of home and family female work.

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Cult of True Womanhood

Sami S.

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Society focused on the growing problems of urban prostitution?

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Female Moral Reform Society

Ariel L

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Walden

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Thoreau’s book that transcribed the impact of the market on American society (Ariel L)

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One who looked to nature for inspiration and insights?

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Transcendentalist

Ariel L

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Phrenology

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Pseudo science that believed characteristics and personality were dictated by the bumps and shape of the human head. (Ariel L)

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Slavery (Mexico)

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Abolished in 1829 (Ariel L)

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Tejanos

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Hispanic Texans (Ariel L)

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Who stated that Mexico would poison us? Also stated that too much land acquire what would the issue of slavery be decided over?

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (Adam M)

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What Allowed people the in each territory to decide themselves the role of slavery in their state by voting?

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Popular Sovereignty (Adam M)

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Common school movement

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Led by Horace Mann, believed it would cure society’s ills and make good citizens and workers
(Ariel L)

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The Election of 1848 (major issue)

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Slavery was a major issue in the 1848 election (Tay)

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Frederick Law Olmsted

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Designed New York’s Central Park hoping to bring the country to the city and to civilize the people (Tay)

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Millennialism

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Belief that the millennium was imminent and that Judgement Day would soon follow (Tay)

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What Banned slavery from all territories acquired during the Mexico American war?

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Wilmot Proviso (Adam M)

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