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Sectionalism vocab
Unit 1
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11th Grade
02/13/2013

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Gadsden Purchase
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Small Southwestern strip of land purchased by Us from Mexico in 1853 for $10 million.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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Outspoken New England abolitionist and editor of the abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator"
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Grimke Sisters
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Sarah and Angelina-daughters of SC planter
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Andrew Jackson
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7th President of the U.S. Represented the "rise of the Common man" with universal white man suffrage. Hero fo the Battle of New Orleans.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Early American New England author (Scarlet Letter), promoted Puritan values and ethics
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Hudson River School of Artists
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Early American artists who depicted the natural and seemingly boundless wonders of the new American landscape.
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Indian Removal Act 1830
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Passed by Congress under Jackson, federal government was to provide funds to negotiate treates that would force Indians to move West.
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Washington Irving
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New York auther- "Rip Van Winkle" "Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
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Know-Nothings
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Nativist American group of the first 1/2 of the 19th century dedicated to undermining equal rights for immigrants
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Lewis and Clark
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Captains of the expedition commissioned by Jefferson to explore the LA Purchase in 1804
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Manifest Destiny
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Belief that God wanted America to expand to the west
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Horace Mann
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1st Secretary of Education in Massachusetts,
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Cyrus McCormick
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Invented automatic reaper in 1840s, allowed few laborers to harvest more acres of wheat, caused many farm workers to move to cities
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McCulloch v. Maryland 1819
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Supreme Court case in which Chief Justice John Marshall ruled the Marylan couldn't tax the bank of the US- Strengthened federal authority
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Mexican War
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Expansionist war undertaken by Pres. James K. Polk in the late 1840s in which the US gained about 1/2 of Mexico's territory- reopened the question of the expansion of slavery into new territory
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Missouri Compromise
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1820 Compromise authored by Henry Clay on slave expansion issue, MO became a slave state and ME became a free
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Monroe Doctrine
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Inventor of telegraph(1837). Vastly increased the speed of communication across great distances
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Lucretia Mott
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Prominet abolitionist and women's rights activist throughout the 19th century
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
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1831 rebellion stated by a VA slave who believed he received divine messages telling him ethe time was right for a rebellion
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Nativism
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Feeling of native-born americans that immigrants were being given too much control over America
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Neoclassical Architecture
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American attempt to copy Greek and Roman styles of architecture
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New Harmony
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Indiana utopian settlement
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Oneida
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New York community founded in 1848 that encouraged free love, birth control, and eugenic selection of parents
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Oregon Trail
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Trail from independence, MO to Portland
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Panic of 1819
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A chain reaction of bank failures
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Pet Banks
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State banks in which Jackson deposited all federal funds in his attempt to kill the band of the United States
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Prison Reform
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Changes in penal institutions that emphasized rehabilitation (mid-19th century)
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Rehabilitation
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Idea that punishment should be used to reform the imprisoned so that they may reenter society as productive citizens
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Seneca Falls Convention
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1848 women's rights meeting at which the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments was presented
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Sequoyah
Definition
Cherokee Indian credited with establishing a written version of his language to help spread literacy among the Cherokee tribe
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South Carolina Exposition and protest
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John C. Calhoun's 1828 pamphlet which outlined his belief on why states should be able to nullify federal actions. Used to justify protection states' rights and eventually secession
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South Carolina Nulification Crisis
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SC's 1832 action to nullify the so-called Tariff of Abominations. Acted on the South Carolina Exposition and Protest. Jackson threatens force and South Carolina backs down.
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spoils system
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Political practice of giving one's supporters government jobs regadless of merit.
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Elizabeth Stanton
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Women's right activist who helped lead the Seneca Falls Convention
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Cady
Definition
continued to fight for the female suffrage
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suffrage
Definition
the right to vote. 1830s property qualifications dropped creating universal white male suffrage
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Tariff
Definition
Tax on imports. Major revenue of the U.S. government in the 19th century.
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Tariff of Abomination
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1828 tariff on manufactured goods, South's term for it because they had to pay inflated prices on manufactured goods while the cost of their cotton remained the same
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Texas Annexation
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US takeover of TX in 1845, 7 years after Texans invited the US to do so, hotly contested in Congress because of slavery expansion issue
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Henry David Thoreau
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Early American transcendentalist author, practiced early form of civil disobedience
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Alex de Tocqueville
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French writer who expanded the idea of American democracy and advocated prison reform in America
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Trial of Tears
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1838-1839 mass exodus of the remaining Cherokee in the Southeastern US to Western Indiean Territories
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Treath of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
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Treaty that ended the Mexican War, US gained Mexican Cession, about 1/2 of Mexico's territory and much of the present-day Southwestern US.
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Sojourner Truth
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Runaway slave who traveled the nation speaking on abolition. Spoke at Seneca Falls Convention
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Utopian Communities
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Communities established in the mid-19th century based on the idea that all individuals receive equal shares of wealth for an equal amount of work
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David Walker
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Free blacks. Encouraged slaves to fight for their freedom rather than wait for the end of slavery
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Noah Webster
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Main editor of Webster's Dictionary, which standardized the English language in the US
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Whig Pary
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Early American political party that favored wealthy northern merchants and bankers opposed to Jackson
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Universal white male suffrage
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idea that as US democracy progressed voting restrictions on white males were eased allowing Jackson's popularity in the ELection of 1824 and finally his victory in the Election of 1828
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Eli Whitney
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Inventor of cotton gin, increased profitability of cotton production, and the need for African slaves
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Wilmot Proviso
Definition
Amendment to a Congressional provision that if passed would have guaranteed that slavery wouldn't be extened into any part of the Mexican Cession.
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Worchester v. Georgia, 1832
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Supreme Court ruling that GA wasn't entitled to regulate or invade Cherokeelands. Jackson overstepped his presidential powers by refusing to abide by the ruling
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