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Unit 4 Vocab Set
American History
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History
12th Grade
11/07/2018

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Andrew Jackson
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president of the us that created a "new" democracy and dealt with the nullification crisis, the indian removal act and the bank war
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spoils system
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jackson awarded government jobs for political support
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alexis de tocqueville
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wrote the democracy in America, commenting on the equality he saw between limits on democracy
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nullification crisis
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congress passed a new tariff that NC hated
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secession
Definition
withdrawal of a group from larger entity
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Webster-Hayne Debates
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senators debated the issue of nullification in congress
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force bill
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authorized the president to use military to enforce laws
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indian removal act
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authorized the relocation of indians to the great plains
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worchester v. georgia
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cherokee indians sued to stay on their land of Georgia
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The "bank war"
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jackson took money from the BUS and have it to state banks, "killed" the BUS
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Nativism
Definition
feeling hostility towards immagrants
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know-nothing party
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anti-immagrant, especially anti-catholic
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second great awakening
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religious revival, emphasized personal salvation through an individuals relationship with god
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Joseph smith
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claimed god told him to restore the trade church
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brigham young
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took over after smith was killed by a mob
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transcendentalism
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philosophy that stressed the relationship between humans and nature, following ones institution and spiritual matters over material things
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civil disobedience
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Thoreau wrote that non-violent protest could be used to create things
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utopian communities
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communties in which people lived according to their ideals of a perfect society
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Dorothea dix
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exposed inhumane treatment of the mentally ill
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horace mann
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pushed for public, tax supported schools with acquired attendance
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temperance
Definition
moderation of alcohol use
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separate spheres
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men and women switched roles
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Elizabeth cady stanton
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demanded women suffrage
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seneca falls convention
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convention that started the organized womens rights movement in the US in 1848
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Abolitionism
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abolition of slavery that was the biggest and most diverse issue of reform
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William Lloyd Garrison
Definition
white norther who started the news paper
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Fredrick Douglas
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ex-slave who escaped north and wrote an autobiography exposing slave life
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Underground railroad
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a secret tunnel that helped slaves escape
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Harriet tubman
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Railroad conductor
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Nat Turner
Definition
slave minister that led an armed rebellion that killed over 50 white women, men and children
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Battle of the Almano
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The Mexican army surrendered texan forces at the Alamo
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Battle of San Jacinto
Definition
Houston's army ambushed the Mexicans as they slept
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