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1. 4th president and American politician
2. Principal author of Constitution
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1. Made law on May 1, 1810
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1. fought during War of 1812 (3-27-14)
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1. 5th President of the United States
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| known as slavery in regards of morality |
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| a tariff designed to make sure that American manufacturers do not go out of business due to people buying cheaper British goods |
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1.Georgia legislature granted 35 million acres in Yazoo River Country to private speculators.
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| The Bonus Bill of 1817 was a bill introduced by John Calhoun to provide United States highways linking The East and South to The West using the earnings Bonus from the Second Bank of the United States. |
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1. attempt by the state of Maryland to destroy a branch of the Bank of the United States byimposing a tax on its notes.
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1. Cohnens was found guilty by Virginia of illegally selling lottery tickets.
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1. Writer of the South CArolina Exposition
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| 1. 8th president 1837-1841 2. First President to be born under the American flag 3. rsented by Democrats |
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| the idea that a person is acommon man if they do not grow up lavishly, such as many of our first founding fathers |
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a new idea of democracy which was symbolized by independance from the idea of colonies |
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| It was said that he was responsible for choosing those who would run from each political party for presidential elections |
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poilitcal party founded by Thomas Jeferson and James Madison in 1792; they turned into present- day democrats |
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it was a minor poiltical party in the 19th century that introduced the idea of party platforms and nominating convetions |
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| Nicholas Biddle was the prsident of the first Bank of The United States |
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leader of the Seminole Indians |
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he was the 7th president of the United States;known as the common man, also introduced that particular era |
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the idea of declaring a law to be null or void; no longer in existence |
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Compromise Tariff of1833 used to gradually reduce the tariff that resulted from the Tariff of Abominations; tariff was supposed to gradually reduce until 1842, when it reached about twenty percent |
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Order issued by Andrew Jackson that said that land had to be purchased with solid money; specie |
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a government which is dominated by plantation owners |
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the long journey that the Cherokee Indians were forced to endure in the relocation of their tribe to Oklahoma (1838); resulted in about 4000 deaths |
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Period in tim where in NYC when the bank stopped payment in solid money and following it was depression, unemployment, and the failure of banks for almost five years |
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started the Industrial Revolution; owner of Slater's Mill |
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| inventor of the cotton gin |
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period in which the invention of machines and devices was heavy; occured in the 18th and 19th centuries; developed machines to improve agriculture, manufacturing, and transportation; the block that connected America as a whole |
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| situation where financial liability is set to a fixed sum |
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| machine used to quickly separate seeds from cotton in order to increase production |
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First steamboat used commercially; developed by Robert Fulton |
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group of investors who owned 31 textile companies, and used the money from them o act as private investors dealing wih internal improvements |
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American activist who fought for better conditions for prisons and mental asylums |
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"Fatherof American Music"; famous songwriter in the US for the 19th century |
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American inventor who invented the electron beam welder |
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| gag rule is a rule that limits or forbids the consideration or discussion of a topic |
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| refers to the many appointments that John Adams made on his last night of presidency |
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| Event in which the Leopold (British ship) ordered the Chesapeake (American ship) to submit to a search,when the Chesapeake refused the Leopold opened fire and therefore led to the Embargo Act to be passed by America |
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leader of the Shawnee; older brother of Prophet |
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author of "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
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| The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by Khalil Gibran. |
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sectionalism isthe idea of looking at the countryin terms of sections; opposite of nationalism |
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| The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought in 1811 between the United States led by William Henry Harrison and the Shawnees led by Tecumseh (Prophet) |
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| The Battle of the Thames was an American victory in the War of 1812 which took place on October 5, 1813 in Ontario; resulted in the death of Tecumseh |
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| John Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States ;formed the Monroe Doctrine |
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nonintervention is the act of not interfering in any war or forming an alliance that was not beneficial to the nation |
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| The Land Act of 1820 is a United States federal law that eliminated the purchase of public land in the United States on credit. |
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| The Virginia dynasty is a term sometimes used to describe the fact that four of the first five Presidents of the United States were from Virginia. |
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said that the further introduction of slavery was prohibited and that all children born in MO after the admission of that state into the Union shall be free at 25 |
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| Gibbons v. Ogden was a case in which the Supreme Court ruled that the power to regulate interstate navigation was granted to Congress |
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period in which James Monroe was president and the era was marked with famine and disease and unemployment was high |
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US Secretary of War1815-1816 Secretary of the Treasury 1816-25, candidate for president in 1824 |
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"The First Mistress"; reason for the Peggy Eaton Affair; married one of the presidents |
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practice of placing those in high pwer positions who supported you in your presidential campaign |
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amendment that stated that the President and he Vice President would run on one ballot and that the President who was elected, their runner up would become Vice President |
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| King Mob was a radical group attempting to contribute to a social revolution, based in London during the 1970s. |
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idea that Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams conspired to make JQA president and then appoint Clay as Secretary of State |
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| William Henry Harrison was an American military leader, politician, and the ninth President of the United States. |
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| Samuel Houston was a 19th century American statesman and politician |
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10th presiden of the United States; Vice Presidentof William Henry Harrison |
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| Abolitionism is a political movement that seeks to end the practice of slavery |
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| The United States Force Bill authorized Andrew Jackson's use of whatever force necessary to enforce tariffs. |
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| The Seminole are a Native American people originally of Florida, and now residing in that state and in Oklahoma. |
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| A bill that was not passed by Congress in 1837, but proposed by Martin Van Buren to split government and banking. |
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| Bank of the United States |
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| The First Bank of the United States was a bank chartered by the United States Congress on February 25, 1791; used to hnadle the financial needs of the United States |
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| The Republic of Texas was a sovereign state in between the United States and Mexico that existed from 1836 to 1845 |
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| William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent United States abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. |
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| Carl Schurz (March 2, 1829 – May 14, 1906) was a German revolutionary and Union Army general in the American Civil War. His wife, Margarethe Schurz and her sister Bertha von Ronge, established the kindergarten system in the United States |
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inventor of first successful commercial steamboat |
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Inventor of the telegraph and co-inventor of Morse Code |
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| transportation revolution |
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| time in which many different forms of transportation were introduced |
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| Nativism is an opposition to immigration |
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| Ancient Order of Hibernians |
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| Irish-Catholic fraternal organization; its original purpose in the United States was to assist Irish Catholic immigrants |
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| General Incorporation Law |
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| A general incorporation law allows corporations to be formed without a charter from the legislature. |
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| William Cullen Bryant an American romantic poet & journalist |
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Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet & short story writer |
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| Susan Brownell Anthony was an activist for women's rights |
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson was the leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early nineteenth century |
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| Nathaniel Hawthorne was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer |
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| Louisiana Purchase Treaty |
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the acquisition of 530 million acres west of the Mississippi River |
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Boundary agreement between US and UK that allowed for joint occupation of Oregon Territory |
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| The Treaty of Ghent was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 |
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| The Battle of Plattsburgh, also known as the Battle of Lake Champlain , ended the final invasion of the northern states during the War of 1812. |
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| The Hartford Convention was an event in 1815 in the United States in which New England's opposition to the war reached the point where secession from the United States was discussed |
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| The Kitchen Cabinet is a term used to describe the collection of unofficial advisors he consulted |
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| The Missouri Compromise was an agreement passed in 1820 between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery states in the United States Congress, dealing with the regulation of slavery in the western territories. |
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a combination of nonintervention and protectionism (legal barriers to control trade with people in other states) |
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| the Florida Purchase Treaty) was an agreement between the United States and Spain that settled a border dispute in North America between the two nations. |
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| 2nd Bank of the United States |
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| The Second Bank of the United States was a bank chartered in 1816 It was founded to stabilize the currency. |
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| The Monroe Doctrine is a U.S. doctrine which proclaimed that European powers would no longer colonize or interfere with the affairs of the newly independent nations of the Americas. |
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| Dartmouth college v. Woodward |
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| The decision ruled in favor of the College, which in turn allowed Dartmouth to exist as a private institution and take back its buildings, seal, and charter. |
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| The Panic of 1819 was the first major financial crisis in the United States; featured widespread foreclosures , bank failures, unemployment, and a slump in agriculture and manufacturing. |
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| Russo-American Treaty of 1824 |
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| The Russo-American Treaty of 1824 gave Russian claims on the Oregon Country to the United States. |
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| Robert Young Hayne was captain in the Third South Carolina Regiment |
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| deals with the coming and going of individuals through poiltical positions over time |
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| Maysville Road bill provided for the federal government to buy $150,000 in stock in a private company to fund a 60-mile road connecting the towns of Maysville and Lexington, an extension of the Cumberland and National Roads. |
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| a protective tariff passed by the U.S. Congress; It was the highest tariff in U.S. peacetime history, enacting a 62% tax on 92% of all imported goods |
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Peggy Eaton had been "promoted" to one of the cabinet wives and when the others didnt accept her, Jackson wiped out almost his whole Cabinet |
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| South Carolina Exposition |
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| written in 1828 by John C. Calhoun; talked of opposition to Tariff of Abominations |
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| leader of the Spanish in the conquest to gain tx |
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| the estimated 150 battles between Mormon settlers and members of the Ute, Paiute and Navajo tribes, |
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| He commanded the Republic of Texas forces at the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution from the Republic of Mexico. |
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politica official who has regional appeal |
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| The Independent Treasury System was a system for the retaining of government funds in the United States Treasury |
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| It is the oldest political party in the United States |
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| term for state banks selected by the U.S. Department of Treasury to receive government deposits wehn Jackson attempted to kill the Bank of the United States |
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| The Whig Party was a political party of the United States during the era of Jacksonian democracy; the party was formed to go against the policies of President Andrew Jackson and the Democratic Party |
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| DeWitt Clinton was largely responsible for the construction of the Erie Canal. |
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supported the idea of women's education amd supported kindergarten |
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| The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States. |
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| refers to the home in which women were confine to at the beginning of the 19th century |
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| system developed in the 1800s to transport mail |
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| Court established that trade unions were not necessarily criminal or conspiring organizations if they did not advocate violence or illegal activities in their attempts to gain recognition through striking |
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| essayist;part of the transition between Transcendentalism and Realism both of which were used in his writings. |
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| John James Audubon was an American ornithologist;He painted, catalogued, and described the birds of North America. |
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| He sponsored the "Maine law of 1851", which prohibited the manufacture and sale of liquor. |
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| Owen's philosophy was derived from three fundamental pillars of his thought. |
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| William Hickling Prescott was a historian. |
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| was one of the best regarded American poets of the 19th century. |
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| was an American Quaker minister, abolitionist, social reformer and advocate of women's rights |
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| writer from the South whose novels achieved great reward, with Edgar Allan Poe pronounced him the best novelist America had ever produced |
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| American education reformer and abolitionist |
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| early American "hellfire and brimstone" preacher. |
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developed the first dictionary |
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activist and advocate for women's rights |
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| first statutory implementations of the developing temperance movement in the United States. |
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belief in one form of god, not the trinity |
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| a person of mixed black and white ancestry or the offspring of one white parent and one black parent |
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| party was an early advocate of the abolitionist cause. |
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| Oligarchy is a form of government where power is among a few individuals |
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| the idea that the Southern agrarian society is based mostly on the production of cotton |
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| abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison in 1831. |
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| American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, and philosopher who is best known for Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state. |
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| Charles G. Finney was an American story writer, and fantastical novelist |
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| best known for writing the McGuffey Readers, one of the nation's first and mostly widely used series of textbooks. |
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| was an American women's rights advocate and founded the first women's school of higher education. |
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| one of the first world-class American scientists. |
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| Hudson River School of Art |
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| The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement by a group of landscape painters |
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first convenntion held in the United States wjere advocates for women's rights spoke |
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| an area in central and western New York during the Second Great Awakening; The name was given because the area was so heavily evangelized America so as to have no fuel (unconverted population) left to burn (convert). |
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| abolitionist who organized many rebllions |
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| American poet whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", "A Psalm of Life", "The Song of Hiawatha", "Evangeline", and "Christmas Bells". |
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| was an American Quaker poet and forceful advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. |
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| the Second Great Awakening (1800–1830s) was the second great religious revival in United States history |
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| best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life |
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| first governor of the Utah Territory. |
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| founded the circus that eventually became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. |
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| a founder of the Republican party |
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| American Temperance Society |
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organization devoted to help people with drinking problems |
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| The Millerite tradition is a diverse family of denominations and Bible study |
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| Deism is a religious philosophy and movement that derives the existence and nature of God from reason and personal experience. |
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