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48 Cards in this Set
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Annexation |
New territory into a nation |
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Cession |
one nation giving away territory to another |
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Gold Rush |
Migration of people to area where gold deposits were found |
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Imperialism |
Unequal relationship where 1 country extends authority over another country or people |
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Manifest Destiny |
Belief that white people were to expand the nation from coast to coast in the name of progress |
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Northwest Ordinance |
Legislative act that established the procedures for establishing territories and admitting states into the US |
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Population Distrubution |
Arrangement or spread of people living in a given area |
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Settlement patterns |
practices for using natural resources & organizing communities |
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War of Aggression |
Military conflict waged without the justification of self defense usually for territorial gain |
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Westward Expansion |
Political, social, and economic movement of acquiring new territories in the West. |
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abolition |
Act of stopping something, especially slavery |
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Civil Disobedience |
Essay by Henry David Thoreau argued people should not let government overrule their consciences |
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Hudson River School |
Group of artists whos landscape paintings showed a man's connection with nature |
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Public Education |
Schools funded by government taxes (movement to open school and educated the masses) |
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Reform |
to make changes to a social, political, or economic institution in order to improve it |
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Social Movement |
Large group of reformers who work together on a specific social or political cause |
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Suffrage |
The right of voting (Movement to grant women right to vote started in 1800's) |
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Temperence |
Abstinence from Alcohol Drinks (movement sought to reduce alcohol) |
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Transcendentalism |
Movement that criticized conformity and urged people to find solitude in nature. |
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Underground Railroad |
Network of safehouses run by abolitionists and used by 19th century slaves to escape to free states. |
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2nd Great Awakening |
Religious revival movement of early 19th century. Preachers preaching... encouraged growth of reform movements ..led to greater class and regional divisions
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Temperance Movement |
push by reformers to ban alcohol. Led by Temperance Society.. Alcohol dangerous ungodly and led to crime and violence, and unemployment |
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Women's Rightss/Sufferage |
fight for women to vote... |
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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 |
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
Author of "Declaration of Sentiments" Reformer..women's rights organized Seneca Falls |
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Lucretia Mott |
Suffrage leader who organized the Seneca Falls Convention with Stanton |
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Susan B Anthony |
Proposed a women's voting amendment which later became the 19th amendment in 20th century |
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Horace Mann |
Father of the Common School Movement |
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Public Education |
efforts to build free compulsory schools for American Children. |
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Prison Reform |
better treatment of prisoners.. Wanted rehabilitation rather than punishment Separate prisons for women & children |
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Dorothea Dix |
Lead the reform of the Treatment of Mentally ill/Disabled.. more hospitals to treat blind,deaf..mentally ill |
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Frederick Douglass |
former slave who escaped to New York; speaker,writer and editor of newspaper: North Star |
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William Lloyd Garrison |
White reformer who published, The liberator, the most widely read anti-slavery newspaper in the country |
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Harriett Tubman |
Leading conductor on the Underground Railroad which helped slaves escape to freedom |
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Sojourner Truth |
Women's rights activist and abolitionist famous for her speech " Ain't I a woman?" |
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Harriett Beecher Stowe |
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, popular novel that depicted the horrors of slavery |
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Mark Twain |
Author of Huckleberry Fin |
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Walt Whitman |
American poet ..author of Leaves of Grass who lead American literature toward realism |
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Northwest Ordinance |
1787; required 60,000 people before a territory could become a state |
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1803 |
US purchased Louisiana Territory from France doubled our size |
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1819 |
US purchased Florida from Spain |
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1821 |
Santa Fe Trail opens: Trade route between US and Spanish territory...present day Mexico Crossed Rocky Mountians |
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1843 |
Migration along Oregon Trail: earliest route over Rocky Mountains through to the west Coast |
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1845 Annexation of Texas |
Republic of Texas, colony of Mexico, admitted to US.. fulfilling a promise made by President James K Polk. |
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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.
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1847 Brigham Young |
leads Morons est over rockies to Utah Territory to fulfill Joesph smith's desire for religious freedom |
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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
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Gadsden Purchase |
1853;US purchases land in SW from Mexico to create warmer,flatter southern route for travelers and railroads. |