Usap Test 4

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Henry David Thoreau

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wrote walden and "civil disobedience"

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John Humphrey Noyes

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perfectionist, established oneida community

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Ann Lee

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worshipped by the shakers as the female incarnation of God

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Charles Fourier

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French advocate of "Phalanxes"

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Robert Owen

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Scottish industrialist, founded New Harmony

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Charles G. Finney

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Greatest revivalist of the 2nd Great Awakening

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Horace Mann

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"Father" of the public school movement

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William H. McGuffey

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Author of famous reader used by school children in the 19th century

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Cessare Becarria

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Italian who wrote for prison reform and against capital punishment

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Dorthea Dix

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argued for separate asylums for the mentally ill

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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for women's suffrage, refused to include "obey" in her marriage vows

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Lucretia Mott

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Quaker, helped organize the Seneca Falls convention

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Joseph Smith

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founded of the Mormons, killed by an angry mob

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Brigham Young

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Led the Mormons into Utah

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Alexis de Tocqueville

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wrote "Democracy in America"

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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 occur in 1844

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Mormonism

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taught that God had once been a man and that all men can become divine

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The North (of the U.S.)

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% of school children in this area about 70%

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The South (of the U.S.)

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% of school children in this area about 33%

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Auburn, N.Y.

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First of the new penitentiaries or criminal asylums in 1821

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Worcester, Massachusetts

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First of the new mental asylums established in 1833

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Maine Law of 1851

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forbade sale of intoxicating beverages

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Seneca Falls, N.Y.

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site of the first 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 first school for pupils with hearing impediments

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Solitary confinement

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believed to contribute to moral regeneration of the inmate

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William Ellery Channing

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influential unitarian minister

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Thomas Hart Benton

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MO senator, expansionist, wanted to stand up to Br. 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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NY-er, president, architect of Independent Treasury bill

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Worcester vs. Georgia

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Supreme Court ruled that Georgia law could not be enforced in the Cherokee Nation

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John Q Adams

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lost the 1828 election to Jackson

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John Tyler

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first vice-president to become president when a president died

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Webster-Ashburton Treaty

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established boundary of Maine (between US and Britain) US gained more land (including iron ore in MN) Br. gained Halifax/Quebec route

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William H. Harrison

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first president to die while in office

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Specie Circular

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decree that required all public lands to be purchased with "hard" or metallic money

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John Slidell

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sent to Mexico City to offer $25 million for CA and territory to the east

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"pet banks"

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banks in which Jackson deposited federal money; these were his chief weapon in his struggle with the U.S. bank

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Stephen F Austin

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granted land tract by Mexico to bring in settlers of the Roman Catholic faith

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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 who sought to safeguard minority interests in the South in a debate with Webster

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Sam Houston

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former TN governor; tragic marriage, alcoholism, living with Indians, TX commander in chief

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Zachary Taylor & Winfield Scott

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the 2 Am. generals who led the main invasion forces in Mexico

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Maysville Road Bill

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vetoed by Jackson, would have provided funds for internal improvements

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Kit Carson

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guide who accompanied Fremont; showed Kearny the way from Santa Fe to CA

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James Beckwith

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born a slave (white father, mulatto mother) freed in 1810, mountain man in VA, lived among the Crow Indians in the West;member of Gen Kearney's forces in CA

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James G Birney

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KY anti slavery leader; presidential candidate of liberty party in 1840, free soil (keep slavery out of territories) platform

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Ben. Hnry Latrobe

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british born; 1st pro architect in US (classical revival style) ; completed Capitol in DC and cathedral in Baltimore

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Daniel Webster & Henry Clay

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2 able and experienced leaders of the Whigs who had hoped to govern through a weak prez (1841-1845)

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"tyranny of the majority"

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term used by A. de Tocqueville in "Dem. in Am." which described why, although individuals have legal freedom in American democracy, there is great pressure for them to conform

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john Jacob Astor

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fur trader and real estate speculator millionaire

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Mary Lyon

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raised money to launch a "Female Seminary" now Mount Holyoke College

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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left "obey" out of her marriage ceremony; advocated women's suffrage

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Hannah Forsham Lee

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woman author who wrote on living w/in one's income (3 experiences in Living) in response to 1837 economic panic

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John James Audubon

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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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Angelina Grimke/ Sarah Grimke

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sisters who spoke at ant slavery gatherings

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James Fenimore Cooper

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wrote of the rugged individual; hero- Natty Bumpo

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Charlotte Cushman

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most talented actress of the 1800s

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Washington Irving

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wrote "knickerbocker's history of NY"

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Edgar Allan Poe

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excelled in the horror short story

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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said "Europe stretched to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond" transcendentalist

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John C Calhoun

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as VP under Jaxon, he changed from a nationalist to a Southern sectionalist

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James K Polk

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first dark horse candidate to be nominated for the presidency

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Peggy Eaton

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daughter of a Washington boardinghouse keeper who married Sec of War under Jaxon