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