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Annexation

New territory into a nation

Cession

one nation giving away territory to another

Gold Rush

Migration of people to area where gold deposits were found

Imperialism

Unequal relationship where 1 country extends authority over another country or people

Manifest Destiny

Belief that white people were to expand the nation from coast to coast in the name of progress

Northwest Ordinance

Legislative act that established the procedures for establishing territories and admitting states into the US

Population Distrubution

Arrangement or spread of people living in a given area

Settlement patterns

practices for using natural resources & organizing communities

War of Aggression

Military conflict waged without the justification of self defense usually for territorial gain

Westward Expansion

Political, social, and economic movement of acquiring new territories in the West.

abolition

Act of stopping something, especially slavery

Civil Disobedience

Essay by Henry David Thoreau argued people should not let government overrule their consciences

Hudson River School

Group of artists whos landscape paintings showed a man's connection with nature

Public Education

Schools funded by government taxes


(movement to open school and educated the masses)

Reform

to make changes to a social, political, or economic institution in order to improve it

Social Movement

Large group of reformers who work together on a specific social or political cause

Suffrage

The right of voting


(Movement to grant women right to vote started in 1800's)

Temperence

Abstinence from Alcohol Drinks


(movement sought to reduce alcohol)

Transcendentalism

Movement that criticized conformity and urged people to find solitude in nature.

Underground Railroad

Network of safehouses run by abolitionists and used by 19th century slaves to escape to free states.

2nd Great Awakening

Religious revival movement of early 19th century.


Preachers preaching... encouraged growth of reform movements ..led to greater class and regional divisions


Temperance Movement

push by reformers to ban alcohol. Led by Temperance Society.. Alcohol dangerous ungodly and led to crime and violence, and unemployment

Women's Rightss/Sufferage

fight for women to vote...

Seneca Falls, New York

Where Women organized a National Convention for the right to vote.


They didn't get the right to vote till 1920, but did shorten the working day for women and chidren

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Author of "Declaration of Sentiments"


Reformer..women's rights


organized Seneca Falls

Lucretia Mott

Suffrage leader who organized the Seneca Falls Convention with Stanton

Susan B Anthony

Proposed a women's voting amendment which later became the 19th amendment in 20th century

Horace Mann

Father of the Common School Movement

Public Education

efforts to build free compulsory schools for American Children.

Prison Reform

better treatment of prisoners.. Wanted rehabilitation rather than punishment


Separate prisons for women & children

Dorothea Dix

Lead the reform of the Treatment of Mentally ill/Disabled.. more hospitals to treat blind,deaf..mentally ill

Frederick Douglass

former slave who escaped to New York; speaker,writer and editor of newspaper: North Star

William Lloyd Garrison

White reformer who published, The liberator, the most widely read anti-slavery newspaper in the country

Harriett Tubman

Leading conductor on the Underground Railroad which helped slaves escape to freedom

Sojourner Truth

Women's rights activist and abolitionist famous for her speech " Ain't I a woman?"

Harriett Beecher Stowe

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, popular novel that depicted the horrors of slavery

Mark Twain

Author of Huckleberry Fin

Walt Whitman

American poet ..author of Leaves of Grass who lead American literature toward realism

Northwest Ordinance

1787; required 60,000 people before a territory could become a state

1803

US purchased Louisiana Territory from France


doubled our size

1819

US purchased Florida from Spain

1821

Santa Fe Trail opens: Trade route between US and Spanish territory...present day Mexico


Crossed Rocky Mountians

1843

Migration along Oregon Trail: earliest route over Rocky Mountains through to the west Coast

1845 Annexation of Texas

Republic of Texas, colony of Mexico, admitted to US.. fulfilling a promise made by President James K Polk.

1846 Mexican American War

Breaks out after Polk sends US troops to the Rio Grande in disputed region that Mexico considered its own territory. US & Britian negotiate a deal to split Oregon Territory, giving America land in Pacific NW.


1847 Brigham Young

leads Morons est over rockies to Utah Territory to fulfill Joesph smith's desire for religious freedom

1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Ends Mexican/American War.


Recognizes Texas as part of US


Sets boundary at Rio Grande


Cedes huge amount of land in SWto America as the Mexican Cession


Gadsden Purchase

1853;US purchases land in SW from Mexico to create warmer,flatter southern route for travelers and railroads.