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AP US History Unit 4
Flash Card Notes for Unit 4 AP US History Test
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History
11th Grade
11/19/2009

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Stephen Austin
Definition
Applied for a charter to settle Mexico
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Rules for new Texans
Definition

Become Catholic,

no Slavery,

follow Mexican laws.

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Santa Anna
Definition

Dictator of Mexico

Leader of Mexican Army

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Sam Houston
Definition

Leader of Texans

Called "Big Drunk"

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Goliad
Definition

342 Texans defending city.

Surrender and all killed.

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W. B. Travis
Definition
Commander of The Alamo
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San Jacinto
Definition

Sam Houston defeats Santa Anna.

Santa Anna agrees to withdraw troops.

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Whigs
Definition

New party that despise Andrew Jackson.

Diverse group. Support American System.

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"Favorite Sons" Campaign
Definition

Whigs campaign plan.

Four men from different regions run for president.

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Martin Van Buren
Definition
Democrat. Eighth president. Jackson's Choice.
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Jackson's Legacy
Definition

Increased Power of President

Champion of Common Man

Killed the Bank of the United States

Increase Sectionalism

Spoils System

United Democratic Party

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Reasons for Panic of 1837
Definition

Andrew Jackson's economic policies

and

Over speculation of land

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Outcomes of Panic of 1837
Definition

Banks fall apart

and

Factories close, causing unemployment skyrocket

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Independent Treasury Bill of 1840
Definition
Separates Government from banks
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William Henry Harrison
Definition

Whigs nominee for election of 1840

AKA Tippecanoe

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Tippecanoe and Tyler too
Definition
Whig's campaign for William Henry Harrison
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Log Cabin and Hard Cider
Definition
How Democrats portrayed William Henry Harrison
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John Tyler becomes Presidnet
Definition

Harrison holds three hour long inauguration

Gets pneumonia and dies after 32 days

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Old Immigration
Definition
Immigrants from Western and Northern Europe
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Potato Famine
Definition
Causes mass Irish immigration to America
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Irish Targets
Definition

 

  1. Poor; stuck in big cities.
  2. Catholic.
  3. Troublemakers; drinking.

 

Term
Molly Maguires
Definition
Union of Irish coal miners in Pennsylvania
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German Immigration
Definition

Move to Midwest, mostly Wisconsin.

Similar to Germany.

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Fredrick Law Olmstead
Definition
Lived with Germans; wrote about their culture
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Nativists
Definition

Feared foreigners

Order of Star Spangled Banner

AKA Know-Nothings

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Samuel Slater
Definition

Father of Factory System

Invents Spinning Jenny

Spun cotton

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Eli Whitney
Definition

Invents Cotton Gin

Interchangeable Parts

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Samuel F. B. Morse
Definition

Invented Telgraph

Death of Pony Express

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Elias Howe and Isaac Singer
Definition
Invent and perfect sewing machine
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Francis Cabot Lowell
Definition
Invented Dual Textile Factory System
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New England at Center of Industrial Revolution
Definition

  1. Bad Soil
  2. Immigrants
  3. Ports
  4. Rapid Rivers

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Factory Conditions
Definition

Long hours, low pay

Unhealthy and Unsafe

Term
Cult of Domesticity
Definition

Defined role of homemaker:

 

  1. Piety
  2. Purity
  3. Submission
  4. Domesticity

 

Term
Commonwealth v. Hunt
Definition

Commonwealth of Massachusetts arrested Hunt and other factory workers for discussing factory conditions.

 

Supreme Court ruled unions are legal if peaceful

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Breadbasket
Definition
Iowa, Ohio, and Illinois
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John Deere
Definition
Invents Steel Plow
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Cyrus McCormick
Definition
Invents Mechanical Reaper
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Lancaster Turnpike Company
Definition
First turnpike built in 1790
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Erie canal
Definition

363 mile canal from Lake Erie to Hudson Bay

Reduced travel time from 20 to 6 days

Cities born: Syracuse and Rochester

Term
Robert Fulton
Definition

Invents steam boats

Clermont

Term
3/4 in the north
Definition

30,000 miles of railroad total

 

Term
80% of Cotton
Definition
Cotton from South exported to Britain
Term
Planter Aristocracy
Definition
Plantation owners had money and political power
Term
Four Million Slaves
Definition
Slaves in America by 1860
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Treatment of Slaves
Definition

Varied, but valued ($1200)

Intimidated

Term
Risks for Slave Owners
Definition

slaves could die, run away, or revolt

one crop plantation

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Burdens of Blacks
Definition

No dignity; everything lent to them

No education

Free blacks kidnapped into slavery

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Gabriel's Insurrection
Definition

Slave revolt in Virginia with 150 slaves

Found out before it happened

Term
Denmark Vessey
Definition

Slave revolt in South Carolina

Snitched before it began

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Nat Turner
Definition

AKA Black Spartacus

Born a slave and adopted master's name

Traded masters, 6 followers kill new master

Gain 200 more followers

Kill 66 Virginians before Virginia Militia kills 100

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AKA Poor Whites
Definition

  1. Crackers
  2. White Trash
  3. Hillbillies

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Poor Whites Support Slavery
Definition

Racially superior

One day own their own

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Free Blacks
Definition

  1. Couldn't vote
  2. Can't testify against a white person in court
  3. Segregated buildings
  4. Denied education

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American Colonization Society
Definition

Group formed to return blacks to Africa

Liberia formed. 13,000 free blacks return.

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Abolitionist Motivation
Definition

Dominant Movement

Religiously Driven:

Bible said it was a sin

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William Lloyd Garrison
Definition

Published The Liberator Newspaper.

Said that if slavery wasn't abolished,

north should secede.

Term
American Anti-Slavery Society
Definition

Inspired by Garrison

Supporters of Radical Abolitionism

Term
Harriet Beecher Stow
Definition
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Term
Frederick Douglas
Definition

Published North Start: Guide for Free Slaves

Greatest Black Abolitionist

Apprentice of Garrison

Term
Slavery Defense in the South
Definition

Silence Abolitionism: Burnt anti-slavery literature.

Claimed slavery was in the Bible

Slavery civilize and Christianize slaves

Master and Slave like Family

Term
Gag-Resolution
Definition

Prohibited Anti-Slavery Material from Congrss

John Quincy Adams fights it for eight years

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Age of Reason
Definition

Written by Thomas Paine

Promotes Diesm

Term
Unitarianism
Definition

Taught:

Essential Goodness in Humans

God is One Person

Term
Second Great Awakening Effects
Definition

People want to return to original roots

Thousands of born-again Christians

New Religious groups

Reform Events

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Revivalism
Definition
Spread by Campmeetings
Term
Peter Cartwright
Definition

Methodist Circuit Rider

Punched rowdy people

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Charles G. Finney
Definition
Circuit Rider
Term
Burned Over District
Definition

Wester-half of New York

Fire and Brimstone Preachers

Term
Millerites
Definition
AKA Seventh Day Adentists
Term
Joseph Smith
Definition

Formed Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Mormons; found gold plates

Term
Brigham Young
Definition

Lead Mormons into Utah

No religion there

Term
Neal S. Dow
Definition

Father of Temperance

Napoleon of Temperance

Term
American Temperance Society
Definition

Limit amount of alcohol

Move toward total prohibition

 

Results:

Alcohol consumption decreased

12 states pass laws restricting alcohol

Term
Lucretia Mott
Definition
First to say women could be equal with men
Term
Elizabeth cady Stanton
Definition
Refused to leave "Obey" in wedding vows
Term
Suzanne B. Anthony
Definition
Speaker on Women's rights
Term
Seneca Falls Convention
Definition

AKA Woman's Rights Convention

NY gathering to discuss women treatment

Formed by Stanton and Mott

Declaration of Sentiments

Results:

Women accepted into College

Women Inherit Land

Term
Horace Mann
Definition

Most influential individual supporter of education

Pushes for:

  1. Better schools
  2. Better curriculum
  3. Better pay for teachers

Term
Noah Webster
Definition
Invents Dictionary
Term
William H. McGuffey
Definition

Publishes textbook: McGuffey Reader

Teach kids to read

Taught Morality and Patriotism

Sold 122 million copies

Term
Dorothea Dix
Definition
fought for better treatment of Mentally Ill
Term
Prison and Debtor Prison Reform
Definition

Similar to Mentally Ill

Bad conditions

Term
War
Definition
Reformers wanted Peace
Term
New Harmony
Definition

Formed by Robert Owen

Get rid of modern lifestyle

Harmonists: get along with nature

Term
Book Farm
Definition

Literature Community

Author and Artists

Term
Oneida
Definition

Formed by John Noyes

Complex Marriage; Free Love

Birth Control

Built Animal Traps and Silverware

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