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60 Cards in this Set
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Thomas Hart Benton
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MO senator, expansionist, wanted to stand up to Britain over the OR territory issue
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Andrew Jackson
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ignored the Supreme Court's protection of the SE Indian tribes
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Martin Van Buren
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President, architect of Ind Treasury Bill
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Worcester v. GA
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Supreme court ruling about Cherokees in GA
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John Q. Adams
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lost 1828 election to Jackson
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John Tyler
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1st vp to become p when a p died
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Webster-Ashburton Treaty
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est boundary of ME; US gained more land and MN iron ore; Britain got Halifax/Quebec
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William H. Harrison
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1st p to die in office
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Specie circular
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all public lands must be purchased with metallic $
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John Slidell
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sent to Mexico to offer $25 million for CA and other territory
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pet banks
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banks in which Jackson dep fed $ to drain US bank
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Stephen F Austin
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granted land tract by mexico to bring Catholic settlers
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John C Fremont
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helped overthrow mexican rule in CA
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Robert Hayne
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SC senator (w/Calhoun) who wanted to safeguard minority interests in the South in a debate with Webster
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Sam Houston
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TN gov; tragic marriage; alcoholism; living w/ indians; Texas comm in chief
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Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott
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American generals who led the main invasion in mexico
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Maysville Road Bill
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vetoed by Jackson; funds for internal improvement
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Kit Carson
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guide who accompanied Fremont; showed Kearny the way from Sante Fe to CA
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James Beckwith/Beckwourth
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born a slave (mulatto), freed in 1810; mountain man in VA; lived among Crow in west; member of Gen. Kearny's forces in CA
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James G. Birney
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KY anti-slavery leader; pres cand of Liberty Party in 1840; free soil in terr platform
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Maine Law of 1851
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1st state law to ban manufacture and sale of alcohol
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Benjamin Henry Latrobe
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Br born; 1st prof architect in US (classical revival); completed the Capitol in DC; cathedral in Baltimore
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Daniel Webster and Henry Clay
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Whig leaders who had hoped to govern through a weak pres 1841-45 (Harrison, who died)
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tyranny of the majority
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term by de Tocquecville in DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA; great pressure to conform despite legal individual freedom
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John Jacob Astor
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fur trader and real estate spec millionaire
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Mary Lyon
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raised money to launch a female seminary; "Mt Holyoke College"
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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left "obey" out of marriage ceremony; advocated women's suffrage
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Hannah Forsham Lee
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woman author who wrote on living within one's income (3 EXP IN LIVING) in response to 1837 economic panic
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John James Audobon
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wrote BIRDS OF AMERICA
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Margaret Fuller
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edited a transcendentalist journal, THE DIAL
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Dorothea Dix
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mental asylum reform
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Lucretia Mott
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Quaker; woman delegates to London anti-slavery conf not recognized; helped org Seneca Falls
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Angelina and Sarah Grimke
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sisters who spoke at anti-slavery gatherings
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James Fenimore Cooper
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wrtoe of the rugged individual; hero-Natty Bumpo
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Charlotte Cushman
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talented actress
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Edgar Allen Poe
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horror short stories
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Henry David Thoreau
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wrote WALDEN and CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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said "Europe > Alleghenies, America lies beyond"; transcendentalist; wrote THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR and SELF RELIANCE
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John C Calhoun
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vp under Jackson, changed from a nationalist to a southern sectionalist
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James K Polk
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1st dark horse cand to be nom for the presidency
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Peggy Eaton
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daughter of innkeeper who married Sec of War under Jackson
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John Henry Noyes
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perfectionist; est Onieda community
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Ann Lee
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worshipped by Shakers as the female Christ
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Charles Fourier
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French advocate of Phalanxes (comm, togetherness)
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Robert Own
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founded New Harmony; Scottish industrialist
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Charles G Finney
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greatest revivalist of 2nd Great Awakening
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Horace Mann
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father of public school movement
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William H McGuffey
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author of mcguffey reader
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Cessare Beccarria
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Italian who wrote for prison reform and against capital punishment
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Joseph Smith
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founded Mormanism, killed by an angry mob
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Brigham young
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led mormons to utah
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North American Phalanx
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best example of a successful fourier phalanx
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Millerites
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followers of a Calvinistic baptist minister who taught that the 2nd coming of Christ would come in 1844
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Mormonism
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taught that God has once been a man and that all men can become divine
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Auburn, NY
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1st of the new penitentiaries or criminal asylums in 1821
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Worcester, MA
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1st of the new mental asylums in 1833
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Seneca Falls, NY
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site of 1st women's rights convention
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Sarah Josepha Hale
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female editor of GODEY'S LADIES BOOK
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Thomas H Gallaudet
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opened the 1st school for deaf students
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William Ellery Channing
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influential Unitarian minister
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