U.s. History: C8 Newcomers & New Ideas (1820-60)

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Having to do with the country

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rural

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Toccoa is a rural town.

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Having to do with the city.

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urban

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Atlanta is an urban city.

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A person who comes to a country for the purpose of living there.

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immigrant

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Chinese, Irish & German immigrants came to America in the 1800's/19thCentury

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A time when people in a place starve from lack of food

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famine

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The Irish immigration was the result of the Great Potato famine caused by a blight killing 1 million and causing 1 million to flee to America

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Rights that all people in a society should have

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equal rights

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The Equal Rights Amendment failed which would have prohibited discrimination based on sex.

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The right to vote

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suffrage

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Women's suffrage was passed by the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920

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A person who works for a cause that improves the way something is done in a society

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reformer

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Reformers in the mid-1800s were concerned with suffrage for blacks and women, public education, prison reforms, mental health treatment and Temperance Movements to prohibit sale of alcohol and drugs

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A reform movement against drinking alcohol promoting its prohibition due to poor health, crime, & social problems

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temperance

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The American Temperance Society was formed in 1826 reduced the consumption of alcohol into the 1860s.

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American inventor who made the 1st steel plow w/ polished steel blade in 1831 which allowed horses to pull them instead of oxen

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John Deere

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Motto for tractors: "Nothing runs like a Deere"

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American inventor who made the 1st reaper or grain-cutting & harvesting machine

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Cyrus McCormick

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The McCormick Reaper could harvest more wheat in one day than a man could in 2 wks.

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She was a leader in the Women's Rights Movement

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Susan B. Anthony

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Women's suffrage promoted lobbyists in the legislature, tested the 14th Amendment saying women were citizens too, & pushed for a national constitutional amendment granting women right to vote

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She became the 1st woman to speak to a lawmaking group about equal rights for women in 1838.

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Angelina Grimke

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daughter of a S.Carolina slaveholder who spoke out for abolistion of slavery

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She wrote for newspapers on the equality of all men and women in 1838.

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Sarah Grimke

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Angelina's sister who taught her "companion" how to read and write which violated S.Carolina law.

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She became the 1st woman in 1854 to speak to the N.Y. State legislature and organized the Women' Rights Movement & Quaker abolitionist

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Lucretia Mott

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Became interested in Women's Rights when she learned her teachers salary would be half that of male teachers.

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She became the 1st woman to speak before the state legislature of N.Y. State and organized the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Paired with Lucretia Mott in organizing the Seneca Falls Convention for Women's Rights

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She helped strenthen the anti-slavery movement as well as the women's rights reforms.

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Lucy Stone

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A leader of the National American Women's Suffrage Association; wrote Battle Hymn of the Republic w/ Julia Ward Howe

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A former slave who traveled north to speak out against slavery & supported women's rights movement

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Sojourner Truth

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Gave the speech "And Ain't I A Woman" at a women's rights convention in 1851

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The First Women's Convention organized by Stanton & Mott in 1848 where they wrote "Declaration of Sentiments"

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Seneca Falls Convention

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1st Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls,N.Y.; "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men & women are created equal"

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote it based on The Declaration of Independence which added Women to the clause expressing "created equal"

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Declaration of Sentiments

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Declared that men & women are equal and should have equal rights under the U.S. Constitution

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Provided that women of N.Y.:
1. could own property if married
2. could collect their own wages
3. could sue in court
4. could enter into legal contracts

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Law for Women's Property Rights in N.Y. State (1860)

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helped pave the way for equal rights for women under New York law

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He set up the 1st public schools for free public education of children ages 8-14 years in Massachussets

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Horace Mann

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Establishe teacher training programs and curriculum reforms as Scty. of Massachussets Board of Educ. from 1837-51 & doubled money spent on schools

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She improved prison life for female prisoners and found that many were incorrectly incarcerated for Mental Illness. She helped get them treatment & placed into asylums.

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Dorothea Dix

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Placed the mentally ill in asylums for treatment and care.& improved prison life for female inmates

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She opened Troy Female Seminary in Troy, N.Y. in 1821 for girls education

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Emma Williard

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opponents of her girls school said: "They will be educating "cows" next!"

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He started the Abolistionist Newspaper called "The Liberator" in 1831 which urged immediate emancipation (freeing) of slaves with no payment to slaveholders

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William Lloyd Garrison

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An editor of The Liberator newpaper who pushed for slave emancipation

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He was born a slave in 1817 and was taught to read and write by the wife of one of his owners; fled to New England and became editor of the North Star newspaper

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Frederick Douglas

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An abolitionist ex-slave who also supported women's rights in his newspaper "North Star"
Motto: "Right is of no Sex-Truth is of no Color-God is the Father of us all, and we are All Brethren (brothers)"

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The movement to end slavery in the Americas

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Abolitionism

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An organized effort to prevent the drinking of alcoholic beverages

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Temperence

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"To the victor belong the spoils o the enemy" Pres. Jackson threw out 10% of former appointees & replaced them with his own friends/relatives cronyism/nepotism)

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Spoils System

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A state's formal withdrawl from the Union leading to Civil War

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Secede

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An 1833 bill allowing the Federal Gov't to use the army and navy against S.C. if state authorities resisted paying proper duties / tariffs

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Force Blll

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Pres. Jackson negotiated treaties with Russia , Siam, some S.A. & European counties. He sent warship to collect debts owed the U.S.

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Jackson's Foreign Policy

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A tax on imported goods

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Tariff

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A man-made waterway to encourage trade and reduce shipping costs

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Canal

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A fur trapper/trader who lived in the mountains & new the wilderness; used as guides/trackers

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Mountain Men

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A person who traveled to California in 1849 to search for gold at Sutter's Mill near San Francisco

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Forty-Niner

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A large farm w/ grazing land for raising horses, cattle, or sheep

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Ranch

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The change in social & economic organization resulted from a change from "Cottage Industry" to large scale industrial production .

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Industrial Revolution

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The process of transition from Cottage Industry to factories using mass production & assembly lines. People moved from rural areas to factories in cities to work.

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Industrialization

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An 1830 law forcing Native Americans east of the Mississippi River to move to lands in the west
on Reservations

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Indian Removal Act

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The marches forced by Pres. Jackson using the army to forcibly remove the Native American tribes from Georgia and other areas to Indian Reservations (1838-40) causing 1000s of deaths in route

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"Trail of Tears"

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The 19th Century belief that the USA would inevitably expand westward to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican territory as God's will

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Manifest Destiny

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A U.S. law (1862) which provided 160 acres in the west to any citizen who was head of household and would cultivate the land for 5 years

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Homestead Act

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One who promoted the abolition of slavery in America

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Abolitionist

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An organized effort to prevent the drinking of alcoholic beverages

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Temperance

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Prohibited the production , sale & consumption of alcoholic beverages
Repealed the Prohibition Act

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18th & 21st Amendments

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"Father of Public Education" in Massachusetts, set up teacher training programs & curriculum reforms , doubled the money spent on public schools

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Horace Mann

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The first Women's Rights Convention held by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Seneca Falls , N.Y.

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Seneca Falls Convention

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A movement in early 1900s to have voting rights extended to women

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Woman's Suffrage

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The political movement toward greater Democracy for the common man by Andrew Jackson and his supporters who formed Democratic Party & promoted strength of the Presidency & Executive Branch at the expense of Congress &broadened the public's participation in Government

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Jacksonian Democracy

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Two routes west allowing safer trade and travel by covered wagon trains

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Oregon Trail and Santa Fe Trail

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A religious group led by Joseph Smith and later Brigham Young to settle in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1847. They practiced Polygamy until the U.S. government ruled it illegal in the U.S.A.

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Mormons