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States Rights |
belief that the power of the federal government reguarding the states is strictly limited |
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Strict Construction |
way of interpreting the constitution that allows the federal government to take only those actions the constitution specifcally |
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Suffrage |
voting rights |
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Tariff of Abominations |
nickname given to a new tariff by southerners who opposed it |
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10% Plan |
Abrahan Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction; once 10% of voters in a former Confederates state took a US loyalty oath; they could form a new state government and be readmitted into the Union |
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Trail of Tears |
an 800-mile forced march made by the Cherokee from their homeland in Georgia to Inidan Territory; resulted in the deaths of thousands of Cherokee |
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Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo |
treaty that ended the Mexican War and gave the US much of Mexico's northern territory |
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Union |
refers to North of the Civil War |
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War Hawks |
members of Congress who wanted to declare war against Britain in the early 1800s |
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War of 1812 |
2nd American Revolution |
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Whig Party |
political party formed by opponents of Andrew Jackson in 1834 who supported a strong legislature |
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John Quincy Adams |
2nd president of the US belonged to federalists, wanted a strong federal government. Responsible for the alien sediation acts |
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Susan B. Anthony |
brought strong organizational skills to the women's rights movement |
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John Jacob Astor |
owner of the American Fur Company |
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Clara Barton |
founder of American Red Cross; key nurse during the Civil War |
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James Buchanan |
from PA; served roughly 20 years in Congress as Polk's Secretary of State for 4 years |
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John Brown |
believed violence was the only way to end the war in 1858; he worked to start a slave uprising, wanted to attack the federal arsenal in Virginia and seize the weapons stored there |
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John C. Calhoun |
Jackson chose the senator from South Carolina as his Vice Presidential running mate |
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Henry Clay |
one of the leading War Hawks; helped arrange Missouri Compromise and 1850 known as a great compromiser. supported American System |
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Jefferson Davis |
president of confederate states of America |
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Emily Dickenson |
poet during the romantic period |
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Dorothea Dix |
challenged the problem of the prison reform; reformer mainly focused on better treatment of mentally ill |
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