| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Transportation Revolution | invention and popularity of steamboats, highways, and railroads |
| Erie Canal (1817-25) | "Clinton's big ditch" dug from great lake to hudson river |
| Market Revolution | scattered farms, market based economy, increased prosperity, women work outside of home |
| Deism | spinoff from the severe puritanism |
| Second Great Awakening (1820's) | temperance movements, supported moral rights, widened lines between classes |
| Horace Mann (1837) | MA, wanted better schools, longer semester, higher pay for teachers |
| Mormons (1830) | new kind of religion, men had multiple wives, hated by others |
| Joseph Smith | created mormonism, murdered by anti-mormons |
| Brigham Young | leader of mormons 1845 |
| Emma Willard | advocate for women, made Troy demale seminary in NY |
| Dorothea Dix | 1843, traveled to see conditions of asylums, wanted improvements made |
| Circuit riders | Traveling frontier preachers during second great awakening |
| Cash crop | corn |
| Cotton Gin (1793) | Invented by Eli Whitney, part of industrial revolution |
| Factories in North | made factories on land not able to crop from, better presence of rivers for transporting goods |
| Agricultural Inventions | steel plow, mower-reaper |
| Samuel Morse | invented the telegraph |
| What hath god wraught? | first saying to be telegraphed |
| Western Movement | popular for fur-traders, living conditions were harsh while moving, hope of gaining land |
| anti-foreignism | catholics vs. protestants, pricate catholic schools founded because of... |
| irish | moved to america because of potato famine, not welcome |
| germans | well educated, wanted political freedom |
| Corrupt Bargain | dispute arose because Adams won through majority, not the highest amount |
| John Quincy Adams | not a succesful president, won respect not popularity |
| Andrew Jackson | aristocrat, rewarded supporters with office positions |
| Monroe Doctrine | message to Britain- noncolinization, nonintervention |
| Russo-American Treaty of 1824 | Russia stops SW dispute and made treaty line in NW |
| War of 1812 | america vs. britain, fought in canada, washinton dc, new orleans |
| Treaty of Ghent (1814) | John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay make deal with britain, fighting solved but controversial |
| Hartford Convention | Federalists met privately, wanted financial assistance for states, constitutional amendments, 2/3 vote instead of 3/5 vote, new states, 1 term only for presidents |
| Seneca Falls Convention (1848) | women met to rewrite declaration of indepence to support women |
| cult of domesticy | womens power within the home |
| lucretia Molt (1840) | attended antislavery convention in london, but blocked off from men, quaker |
| reform efforts | inprovement of education, prisons, asylums, women's movement, abolition, temperance, abolition, indians, health and medicine |
| romanticism | painting, portraits to nature, literature in north and south |
| transendentalism | to discover your inner light |
| panic of 1837 | basic cause was wanting to get rich quick, gambling addictions, jacksonian finance scare, failed crops, higher tariffs |
| whigs | represented westerners in politics |
| Martin Van Buren | NY, tried to pass divorce bill to split bank from government, 8th president |
| Indian removal act (1830) | stated all native americans must move out into designated areas in west |
| Bank War | Jackson vs. Bank, jackson wanted 'pet' banks but not bank of the united states |
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