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Caucus System
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Caucus meets to choose presidential nominee
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John Calhoun
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Vice president and a resident of South Carolina
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Force Bill
Definition
Authorized the president to use the military to enforce acts of Congress.
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Panic of 1837
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Crisis in which many banks and buisnesses failed shortly after Van Buren took office.
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Nullification
Definition
State right to declare federal law null
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Joseph Smith
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Creator of the 'Book of Mormon'
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Nativism
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Hostility towards foreigners
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Penny Papers
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Inexpensive Newspaper
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Trascendentalism
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Urged people to transcend
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Utopia
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Ideal Society
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Mary Lyon
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Opened first institution for higher education for women
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Horace Mann
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Created Massachussets State Board of Education
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Temperance
Definition
Moderation in alchohol consumption
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Seneca Falls Convention
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Women antislavery movement
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Elizabeth Stanton
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Female antislavery movement member
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Abolition
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The belief that slavery should be ended immediately
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Sojourner Truth
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Abolitionist
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The Liberator
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Abolitionist Newspaper
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Gradualism
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The gradual transition out of slavery
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Nat Turner
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Enslaved preacher caused an uprising that killed over fifty virginians.
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The most influential transcendentalist was Henry David Thoreau
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False
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The Know-Nothings pledged never to vote for a Catholic and pushed for laws banning immigrants and Catholics from holding office
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True
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An important development of early 1800s was the rise of the mass newspaper.
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True
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Perhaps most famous poet of the day was Walt Whitman, who wrote simple, personal, deeply emotional poetry.
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True
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The religous group known as the Shakers established small utopian communities from Maine to Kentucky.
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True
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The first well-known advocate of abolition was a free African-American from North Carolina named David Walker.
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Truth
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The American Colonization Society acquired land in West Africa and established a colony that eventually became the country of Liberia.
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True
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The New England Antislavery Society and the American Antislavery Society were founded by Lucretia Mott.
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False
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Emancipation meant that slavery would continue in all the southern states but could not be instituted in the northern states.
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False
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Abolitionism drew its strength from the Second Great Awakening with its focus on sin and repetance, because abolitionists thought slavery an enormous evil of which the country needed to repent.
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True
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What was Andrew Jackson's opinion on the Bank of America and what did her do about the bank?
Definition
Prevented the state bank from loaning too much
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The Jacksonians replaced the caucus system with what?
Definition
National Nominating Convention
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In his inagural address, President Jackson declared his intervention to do what to all Native Americans?
Definition
Move them to the Great Plains
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What was the spoils system. And who was the first president to use it?
Definition
Appointing officials based on party loyalty, John Quincy Adams.
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Many South Carolinians threatened to secede, or withdraw, from the Union when Congress levied what critics called the what?
Definition
Tariff of Abominations
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Explain romanticism?
Definition
Advocated feeling over reason
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Explain in detail the Second Great Awakening?
Definition
The second overall religous revival
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What country did the largest wave of immigrants come from, how many?
Definition
Ireland, Two Million
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Who founded revivalism?
Definition
Charles Grandason Finney
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Between 1815 and 1860, the US experienced a massive influx of what?
Definition
Immigrants
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The increase in the number of voters in the 1820s and 1830s and the arrival of millions of new immigrants convinced many people of the need for what?
Definition
Immigration Laws
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What or who did Lyman Beecher, a prominent minister, insist you should take charge of building a better society in a nation?
Definition
Nation Society
Term
By the mid-1800s, especially in the northeastern states, the development of factories and other work centers seperated the workplace from?
Definition
The Homeplace
Term
The spirit reform prompted Americans to consider ways to improve what?
Definition
Their Lives
Term
Who was Calvin Wiley?
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Reformer
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Who was William Llyod Garrison?
Definition
Publisher of antislavery paper
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What was the American Colonization Society?
Definition
Society focused on colonizing different areas
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In 1863 all abolitionists petitions were shelved without debate because, under Southern pressure, the House of Representatives passed what?
Definition
Indian Removal Act
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Who was Frederick Douglass?
Definition
Freed slave, writer abolitionist
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Who was Reverend Elijah P. Lovejoy?
Definition
Reverend killed while trying to protect a printing press from the mob.
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