Apush Unit 3 Terms

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Webster-Hayne Debate

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Between Webster of Mass. & Hayne of SC regarding Protectionalist tariffs.

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Tariff of abomiation

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The goal of the tariff was to protect industry in the northern United States, which were being driven out of business by low-priced European and particularly British manufactured goods.

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Indian Removal Act of 1830

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Signed by president jackson, popular in the south.

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Trail of Tears

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The Trail of Tears was the relocation and movement of Native Americans in the United States from their homelands to Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma) in the Western United States. [Chocktaw Nation]

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Roger B. Taney

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11th US Attorney Gen.
Delivred Majority Opinion in Dred Scot VS. Sandford

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Whigs

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Party that opposed Jackson and democratic party.

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Specie Circular

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It required payment for government land to be in gold and silver

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Panic of 1837

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The Panic of 1837 was a panic in the United States built on a speculative fever. The bubble burst on May 10, 1837 in New York City, when every bank stopped payment in specie (gold and silver coinage). The Panic was followed by a five-year depression, with the failure of banks and record high unemployment levels

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Aroostock War

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The Aroostook War was an undeclared (and ultimately bloodless) confrontation in 1838-39 between the United States and Great Britain over the international boundary between British North America (Canada) and Maine. The dispute resulted in a mutually accepted border between the state of Maine and provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec.

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Webster-Ashburton Treaty

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The Webster–Ashburton Treaty, signed August 9, 1842, was a treaty resolving several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies, particularly a dispute over the location of the Maine-New Brunswick border

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Know Nothings

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When a member was asked about its activities, he was supposed to reply, "I know nothing.",The Know Nothing movement was a nativist American political movement of the 1840s and 1850s. It was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by Irish Catholic immigrants, who were often regarded as hostile to U.S. values and controlled by the Pope in Rome

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erie canal

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It was the first transportation system between the eastern seaboard (New York City) and the western interior (Great Lakes) of the United States that did not require portage, was faster than carts pulled by draft animals, and cut transport costs by about 95%.

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Lowell system

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work for women

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Romanticism

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Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the Industrial Revolution

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Hudson River school

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The Hudson River School[1] was a mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism.

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James Fennimore cooper

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Writer- Leatherstocking Trails

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Edgar Allen poe

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Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective-fiction genre

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Transcendentalism

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Transcendentalism was a group of new ideas in literature, religion, culture, and philosophy that emerged in New England in the early to middle 19th century.

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ralph waldo emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, philosopher, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the early 19th century

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henry david thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862)[1] was an American author, poet, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist

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brook farm

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a utopian experiment in communal living in the United States in the 1840s

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Oneida community

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The Oneida Community was a utopian commune founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848 in Oneida, New York. The community believed that Jesus Christ had already returned in the year 70, making it possible for them to bring about Christ's millennial kingdom themselves, and be free of sin and perfect in this world, not just Heaven (a belief called Perfectionism).

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shakers

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The United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, known as the Shakers, is a Protestant religious sect.

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burned over district

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When religion is related to reform movements of the period, such as abolition, women's rights, and utopian social experiments, the region expands to include areas of central New York that were important to these movements.

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American Temperance society

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NO ALCOHOL!

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McGuffey Reader

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Two of the best known school books in the history of American education were the 18th century New England Primer and the 19th century McGuffey Readers. Of the two, McGuffey's was more popular and widely used. In addition to the commonly known elementary readers, McGuffey also published High School and Literary Reader in 1889.