Vocab Unit 3B Flashcards
(24 cards)
Movement to end slavery.
Abolitionism
An American transcendentalist abolitionist who started the movement of civil-disobedience.
Henry Thoreau
From this Second Great Awakening movement came protection of the mentally ill and orphanages.
Asylum
This last act of Jackson in office was an effort to halt inflation but led to the panic of 1837 by requiring all land purchases made to the government to be in gold or silver only.
Specie Circular
A religion that expressed equality among race and sex and was typified by dancing and celibacy.
Shakers
The Election of 1824 was called ______ by Jackson & his supporters.
Corrupt Bargain
A purchase from Mexico parts of what is now southern Arizona and southern New Mexico to build southern transcontinental railroad.
Gadsden Purchase
A political party created in 1834 as a coalition of anti-Jackson political leaders.
Whig Party
The massive financial crisis that occurred after the destruction of the Second Bank of the United States.
Panic of 1837
It was a battle between President Jackson and Congressional supporters of the Bank of the U.S. over the bank’s renewal in 1832. Jackson vetoed the Bank Bill, arguing that the bank favored moneyed interests at the expense of western farmers.
Bank War
The beginning of the Women’s Rights movement occurring in this upstate New York convention.
Senaca Falls Convention
A short-lived coalition political party in the United States active from 1848 to 1854. The party was focused on opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories.
Free Soil Party
A bill that if passed would have forbidden slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico.
Wilmot Proviso
A Law passed by Congress in 1830 and supported by President Andrew Jackson allowing the U.S. government to relocate Native Americans from their eastern homelands to west of the Mississippi River.
Indian Removal Act
Popular name for a western New York district that was swept up in the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening.
Burned Over District
Forced march of 15,000 Cherokee Indians from their Georgia and Alabama homes to Indian Territory. Some 4,000 Cherokee died on the arduous journey.
Trail of Tears
In this crisis, South Carolina attempted to declared the 1832 tariff unconstitutional and threatened secession if the federal government tried to collect duties.
Nullification Crisis
It ended the war between the United States and Mexico. America agreed to pay Mexico 15 million for most of the Southwest.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
A philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 1830’s and 1840’s, in which each person has direct communication with God and Nature. Stressed the power of the individual over the corruption of society.
Trascendentalism
What was the name of the system that rewarded political supporters with public office?
Spoils System
A part of the Second Great Awakening dealing with issues in home. Such as domestic Violence as well as drinking too much.
Temperance Movement
A document written in 1854 for the purchase of Cuba from Spain. It implied that the U.S. would declare war if Spain refused.
Ostend Manifesto
It was a nativist political party, also known as the American party, which emerged in response to an influx of immigrants, particularly Irish Catholics.
The Know Nothing Party
A Radical abolitionist who published The Liberator, an anti-slavery newspaper.
William Lloyd Garrison
