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29 Cards in this Set
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What is the spoils system?
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Practice of handing out gov. jobs to supporters; replacing gov. employees with the winning candidates supporters
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What is the caucus system?
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A system in which members of a political party meet to choose their partys candidates for president to decide policy
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What is the secede?
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to leave or withdraw
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Who was john c. Calhoun?
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senator from south carolina; jackson's vice president; and main advocate for states rights
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What was nullification?
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theory that states have the right to declare a fed. law invalid
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Who was danial Webster?
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senator from Massachusetts who's orations advocated defense of the union
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What is nativism?
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Hostility towards immigrants
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Who was William Loyd Mott?
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White leader of radical abolition movement based in boston; founded the liberator in 1831 to work for the immediate end to slavery
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What is emancipation?
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the act or process of freeing slaves
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Who is Lucretia Mott?
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womens rights leader; helped organize the first women s convention in Seneca falls, new York in 1848
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Who is Fredrick Douglass?
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African-american abolitionist leader who spoke eloquently for abolition in the united states and Britain before the civil war
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Who was sojourner truth?
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Abolitionist and women's rights advocate before the civil war; as a formerly enslaved person, she spoke effectively and authentically to white audiences on the abolition issues
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Who are the know nothings?
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Name given to members of the native american party during the 1850's
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What is the second great awakening?
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Protestant revival that rejected the Calvinist idea that only a chosen few were predestined for salvation - replacing it with salvation by remitting god and Christ into a persons daily life
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Who is Charles gandison finney?
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Revivalist during the second great awakening: emphasized religious conversion and personal choice
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Who is Joseph smith?
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Founder of the church of latter day saints of Jesus Christ, known as the Mormons
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What is Romanticism?
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A literary, artistic, and philosophical movement in the 1700s emphasizing the imagination and the emotions, advocating feeling over reason, inner spirituality over external rules, the individual above society, and nature over environments created by humans
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What is transcendentalism?
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A philosophy stressing the relationship between human beings and nature, spiritual things over material things, and the importance of the individual conscience
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What is utopia?
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Community based on a vision of a perfect society sought by reformers
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Who is Dorothea Dix?
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Advocate for prison free-form and of special institutions for the insane in Massachusetts
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Who is Catherine Beecher?
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Author who 1841 book treatise on domestic economy supported to cult of domesticity
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What is the Benevolent society?
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An association focusing on spreading the word of god and combating social problems
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What is the Temperance Movement?
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Campaign against alcohol consumption; began as part of the middle class reform movements of the 1800s
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Whats a penitentiary?
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Prison whose purpose is to reform prisoners
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Who is Horace Mann?
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School reformer and supporter of public education before the civil war, devised and educational system in Massachusetts later copied by many states
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Who is elizabeth cady stanton?
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women's rights leaders in the 1800s; helped organize the first womens convention, wrote the declaration of sentiments on womens rights in 1848
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What is gradualism?
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Theory that slavery should be ended gradually
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What is the american colonization society?
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Society founded in 1816 for the removal of african americans from america to africa. 1821 Acquired land in west africa and by 1847, the former slaves had declared their independence creating the republic of liberia
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What is abolition?
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the immediate ending of slavery
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