A People and a Nation Chapter 11 IDs
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 The Second Great Awakening | religious revival in America social - feminized religion; a spark for abolition and temperance |
| The Antimasonry movement | Crusade against freemasonry freemasonry = emphasized the belief in a deity instead of organized religion or a single church's doctrine political - freemasonry was believed by its opponents as both antidemocratic and antirepublican (Democratic-Republicans were the main opposers) |
| The "Liberator" | started in 1831 by William Lloyd Garrison it remained his weapon against slavery political - Garrison put slavery on the national agenda |
| The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments | modeled after the DOI protested women's legal disabilities political and social - launched the women's rights movement |
| The "corrupt bargain" | political scandal Henry Clay (Speaker of the House) supposedly met with John Quincy Adams to break a deadlock in the voting in the House political - against popular vote, Adams became president and Clay became Secretary of State |
| The Jacksonian Democrats | supported Jackson farmers and factory workers and other common men opposed reform economic and political - didn't supports reform, except for their own specific kind which emphasized individualism |
| The Tariff of Abominations | bill that favored western agriculture interests by raising tariffs economic - worked to the benefit of the North but raised the costs of manufactured goods in the South, increasing sectionalism |
| The Specie Circular | issued by Jackson in 1836 required the purchase of lands to be in specie (gold/silver) economic - stopped land speculation and the sale of public lands dropped considerably |
| Manifest Destiny | the belief of Americans that it was their God-given right to control North America from sea to sea political and social - many groups of Indians were evicted from their lands to accomplish this goal and this resulted in many Indian rebellion |
| James K. Polk | "Napoleon of the Stump" "Young Hickory" won the 1844 election against van Buren, Buchanan, and Cass economic - gained a lot of land or the U.S.; dropped tariffs; got Oregon and the SW; built a treasury |
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