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APUSH 1812-1848

Terms in this set (29)

Dorthea Dix
Prison Reform
Sarah/Angeline Gimke
Female anti-slave society--->women's rights
Elijah Lovejoy
Killed for printing an abolitionist newspaper
William Lloyd Garrison
1805-1879. Prominent American abolitionist, journalist and social reformer. Editor of radical abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator", and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Frederick Douglass
(1817-1895) American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer. He published his biography, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, and founded the abolitionist newspaper, the North Star.
Austin Woolfolk
Amazon of slavery
David Walker
He was a black abolitionist who called for the immediate emancipation of slaves. He wrote the "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World." It called for a bloody end to white supremacy. He believed that the only way to end slavery was for slaves to physically revolt.
Mirabeu B. Lamar
Hires Texas Rangers to kill comanche
Abel Usher
Didn't want Texas to be a state, killed thought
John Tyler/Calhoun
Usher's replacement-texas becomes a state
Calhoun
Nullification
Steve Austin
1st settlement in Texas, became commander of settlers.
Sam Houston
United States politician and military leader who fought to gain independence for Texas from Mexico and to make it a part of the United States (1793-1863)
John Glanton
Kills non-whites in West
John O'Sullivan
coined the term "manifest destiny"
Webster
Made first dicitonary+McGuffrey Reader--> literate society
Graham
Made food staple for healthier society
Lyman Beecher
Temperance movement leader. Wanted to end the sale and consumption of alcohol.
Horace Mann
Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education; "Father of the public school system"; a prominent proponent of public school reform, & set the standard for public schools throughout the nation; lengthened academic year; pro training & higher salaries to teachers----wanted to help democracy
John Humphrey Noyes
founder of Oneida Community; all married to all
Mother Anne Lee
The shakers- no marriage or childbirth - utopian society
Amelia Young
Leader of BY's wives
Ann Eliza Young
Told Chicago about Mormons, they are done for
Brigham Young
United States religious leader of the Mormon Church after the assassination of Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith
Founded Mormonism in New York in 1830 with the guidance of an angel. 1843, Smith's announcement that God sanctioned polygamy split the Mormons and let to an uprising against Mormons in 1844; translated the Book of Mormon and died a martyr.
Charles Finney
Women are allowed in church/participate
Mary Eddy
Christian Science Monitor-no meds
James/Ellen White
7th Day adventist, make cereals
William Miller
Believed Jesus was ending the world, coniced many
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