US-WWI Before Civil War
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Communal Utopian experiment; emphasized agriculture/handcrafts; simplicity spirituality | Shakers |
| Founder of the shakers | Mother Ann Lee |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; most successful communitarian experiment; restructured family life | Mormons |
| Belief that the physical world is secondary to the spiritual realm; humans can only reach through intuition | Transcendentalism |
| Reported an angel had given him divine gold plates; published his revelations into the Book of Mormon; | Joseph Smith |
| Utopian community that had artistic achievements | Brook Farm |
| Second leader of the mormons; through him they achieved religious freedom | Brigham Young |
| Main trail in West; brought settlers to the west coast in 1840's | Oregon Trail |
| Secretary of board of education 1837-1848; advocated free, state-sponsored education | Horace Mann |
| Shows where men would put on black makeup and mock blacks with song dance and clothes; wore worn big clothes | Ministrel Shows |
| Humans should remain celibate | Shakers' Belief |
| Most working-class women worked as ___ in the 19th century | Servants, Laundry, Sewing, Cooks |
| Most middle-class women worked as ___ in the 19th century | Teachers |
| Percentage of southern planters that owned slaves | 25 |
| The 1840's idea God had ordained the growth of an American nation stretching across North America | Manifest Destiny |
| Northern boundary of of the US; result of Oregon Treaty | 49 degrees |
| People who used racism and a desire to civilize Mexicans to fuel Manifest Destiny | Expansionists |
| The fear that the slaveholding elite that controlled the South was determined to control the entire nation | Fear of Slave Power |
| Legislation that said slavery should be prohibited in any territory gained from Mexico in the Mexican-American War | Wilmot Provisio |
| New Mexico, UT territories were allowed to organize under the concept of popular sovereignty | Compromise of 1850 |
| Slaves weren't allowed jury trial, no real prof of a person's slave status was presented in court; caused many to be wrongly returned to slavery | Fugitive Slave Law |
| Loose network of people who helped slaves escape from slavery to freedom in the North | Underground Railroad |
| Believed in dignity of free labor and wanted no extension of slavery into the territories | 1850's Republicans |
| Charles Sumner hit Andrew Butler with a cane in debate in Kansas | Bleeding Kansas |
| First state succeeded into the Union | SC |
| Got CA NM/ UT= Popular sovereignty Fugitive Salve Law strengthened Slave trade abolished South boarder of TX= Rio Grande | Compromise of 1850 |
| Mexico & US signed Feb 1848; US gained CA, NM, AZ, NV, UT, CO, WY; recognition of Rio Grande as south boarder of the TX; mexico got 15 million $ | Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago |
| Mexico ambushed US calvary unit; 11 americans died; 63 taken captive | Mexican American War |
| anti-slavery whigs; former supporters of the Liberty Party; VanBuren=candidate; believed in "Free soil, free labor, free men" | Free-Soil Party |
| Nativist movement; against immigrants;said "i know nothing" to all asked questions; | Know-Nothings |
| Runaway slave from VA; moved to Boston;was arrested (fugitive slave act) in 1854; attempt to be freed; jailer killed | Anthony Burns |
| Novel portraying the humanity/suffering of slaves; touched millions or northerners | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Whig party broke up into Northern/Southern Whigs; couldn't cooperate with each other;1854, Stephen Douglas; created 2 new organized territories and allowed popular sovereignty to determine status of slavery; victory for the South | Kansas-Nebraska Bill |
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