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44 Cards in this Set
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Sir Walter Scott
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Scottish author romanticist
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James Finimore Cooper
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american romanticist author
last of the mohicans |
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Herman Melville
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romanticist author of moby dick and billy budd
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Transcendentalism
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Ascending to a higher level of thinking
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Founder of transcendentalism
author of Self-reliance |
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Henry David Thoreau
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hippie environment loving author transcendentalist
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Margaret Fuller
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Transcendentalist feminist author
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John Smith
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Founder of mormonism church of the latter-day saints
"recieved" book of mormon |
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Gender roles of women
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north: women worked in factories
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Mormons
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Persecuted because they practiced polygamy and brigham young led them to salt-lake city utah
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Shakers
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Shakers: re-defined sexuality and gender roles central to society. Founder was Mother Anne Lee name was created by a ritual the people had in the community.
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Oneidans
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restricted sexual intercourse to suit the scoieties needs
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Second Great awakening
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bigger than the first and emphasized individualism in religion
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Temperence Crusade
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restricted use of alcohol movement
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Phrenology
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pseudo-science that studied attributed different traits to different part of the brain. worked by measuring
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Edward Jenner
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invent small pox vaccine
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Seneca Falls Convention
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feminist convention
run by elizabeth cady stanton produce the declaration of sentiments |
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William Lloyd Garrison
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editor of the liberator
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Liberator
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abolitionist newspaper run by WLG
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Sojourner Truth
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African-American Freed slave who bcame an orator lady
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Frederick Douglass
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African-American runaway slave who bcame an orator man
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Manifest Destiny
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We must move west! it is God's Will!!!!!
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Santa Fe Trail
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a trail that led to california through texas and new mexico and stuff
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Dorathea Dix
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mental asylum idea lady
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Oregon Trail
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led to portland settlements in oregon
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Stephen Austin
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organized the colonization of texas
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Sam Houston
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statesman soldier senator of texas confederate
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the alamo
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a battle that texans lost hard against the mexicans
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James K Polk
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American president for expansionism, but originally wanted to buy the territory from mexico
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Republic of california
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still owned by mexico but considered a small republic under it.
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John brown's Raid
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John brown’ raid White abolitionist John Brown looks to start a slave revolt
Seizes and aresenary in a slave revolt on Harper’s Ferry |
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Wilmot Proviso
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Wiomot Proviso was created by David Wilmot in order to
would have banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future. South reacts very hard to it. Combined with other slavery related issues, the Wilmot Proviso led to the Compromise of 1850, which helped buy another shaky decade of peace. |
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Mexican American War
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A war between mexico and america over the borders to the south (basically a war over the Rio Grande)
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Treaty of Guadaluppe Hidalgo
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ended the M-A war
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Fifty-four forty or fight
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usa wanted to have the northern territory to the geographical lines of 54-40
Polk's plan was to claim and go to war over the entire territory for the United States. |
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aka Bear Flag Revolt
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a revolt against Mexico proclaimed by California settlers
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Free-Soil party
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Short- lived party originating in NY. was a third party combining a few whigs and democrats
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california Gold Rush
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gold found at sutter's mill
people across the united states rushed to san francisco with the hopes that they could become rich |
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Zachary Taylor
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an American military leader and president who relaly wasn't that interested in politics
Was a whig and won the election |
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John C Calhoun
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proposed the nullificatioin act
VP to John Qunicy Adams |
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Fugitive Slave Act
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provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory
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Pottawatomie Massacre
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reaction to the sacking of lawrence
Indians massacre americans yay! dead people! |
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Lyceum movement
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affected architecture
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