US History Final
Terms
- War of 1812
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What:War between Britian and the US
When:1812
Significance:
- The US ended the Indian Threat on its western and southern borders
- Psychological sense of independence: "Second War of independence"
- Fed
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Erie Canal
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What:Canal that connects the Hudson River to Lake Erie
When:Completed in 1825
Significance:
- Made an immense contribution to the wealth and importance of New York
- Increasing trade throughout the nation by
- Made an immense contribution to the wealth and importance of New York
- Potato Famine
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What: Wide spread famine throughout Europe due to potato blight
When:1845 and 1852
Significance:
- Huge Migration of Irish to United States
- Zeno phobic attitudes
- Cult of Domesticity
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What: Women were put in the center of the domestic sphere, and were expected to be a calm and nurturing mother, a loving and faithful wife, to be passive and delicate creature. These women were also expected to be pious and religious, teaching those ar
- Temperance Movement
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What: Movement to eliminate the consumption of Alcohol
When:1830 and 1840
Significance:
- First political movement that women were involved
- Set precedent for women's involvement in government
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
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What: Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
When:1852
Significance:
- Helped fuel the abolitionist cause
- Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention
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What:A convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women
When:1848
Significance:
- Published the Declaration of sentiments
- Outlined the rights that should be guaranteed to woman
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Elizabeth Cady Staton
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What:Female activist dedicated to woman's rights and abolitionist movement
When:1815-1902
Significance:
- First American Feminist
- Outline principles of Women's equality in her Declaration of Sentiments
- Charles G. Finney
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What: Christian Evangelis
When:1792-1975
Significance:
- Believed salvation is bent on a human's will to repent and not forced on people against their will by God
- Contributed to the Evangelical Movement
- Believed salvation is bent on a human's will to repent and not forced on people against their will by God
- "Burned over District"
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What:An area in Central and Western New York during the Second Great Awakening
When:1800-1830s
Significance:
- After Erie Canal, became a boom town
- Launched Evangelical and Second Great Awekening
- Lead to
- William Lloyd Garrison
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What: was a prominent abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer who edited the Liberator
When: 1805-1879
Significance:
- Influenced the Abolitionist movement
- spread of Media and informed citizenery
- The Liberator
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What: Abolitionist paper edited by William Lloyd Garrison
When:1831-1866
Significance:
- Inspiration for literate slaves and free blacks
- Publicized Cause
- Inspiration for literate slaves and free blacks
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American Anti-Slavery Society
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What:an abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison and Arthur Tappan
When:1833-1870
Significance:
- Wide Spread Abolitionist Society
- Split in leadership lead to the formation of the Liberty Party
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Liberty Party
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What:Abolitionist Political Party
When: Formed in the 1940s
Significance:
- Single issue party
- Eventually became part of the Free Soil Party
- James G. Birney
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Who: Politician in Kentucy and Alabama who Published the "Philanthropist" and helped found the "Liberty Party"
When: 1792-1957
Significance:
- Supported American Colonization Party which supported slaves return
- Moral Suasion
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What: A belief that reform occurred by changing the hearts and souls of people, not through politics or law, which was a form of force
When:1830s
Significance:
- Split Anti-Slavery Society when people disagreed with Garrison&
- Fugitive Slave Law
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What: Law that was part of the Compromise of 1850, which required the return of runaway slaves.
When: 1850
Significance:
- Fueled Abolitionist in the North
- Created tensions between north and south
- Fueled Abolitionist in the North
- Wilmot Proviso
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What: Law that failed that would prevent the spread of Slavery to any of the new territories gained the War of Mexican Succession
When:1848
Significance
- Fueled tensions between North and South
- Became rallying cry f
- Popular Sovereignty
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What:Idea that states should decide if they wanted to be free or slave
When: 1840s
Significance:
- Idea behind the compromise of 1850
- Delayed southern and northern territorial tensions
- Dred Scott v. Sandford
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What:Ruled that people of African descent, whether or not they were slaves, could never be citizens of the United States, and that Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories, because slaver were considered property and were no
- Horrace Greeley
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What:Man who founded Republican Party and editor of the New York Tribune, which became the Republcan Party's paper
When: 1854
Significance:
- Greeley made the Tribune the leading newspaper opposing the Slave Power, that is, wh
- William Seward
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What: Governor of New York, US Senator and the Secretary of State under Lincoln and Johnson.
When:
Significance:
- Abolitionist
- Purchase of Alaska
- Avocated American expansion through territorial gain
- John Brown
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What: Abolitionist that advocated violence for the cause
When: 1859
Significance:
- Attempt in 1859 to start a liberation movement among enslaved African Americans freaked out nation
- During the raid, he seized the federal a
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Jefferson Davis
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Who: Served as President of the CS of A
When:1861-1865
Significance:
- Prolonged War even though they were losing
- Helped spead secessionist movement in the south through is fame from the Mexican War of Succession&nbs
- Prolonged War even though they were losing