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23 Cards in this Set
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Seneca Falls Conventions
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- women's rights convention
-declaration of sentiments - right to vote |
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Dorothea Dix
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- insylum reform
- mentally ill released -poppers and debtors not jailed |
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John CAlhoun
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- protect slavery and ideals of the south
- northern presidents, southern presidents |
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William Lloyd Garrison
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published the liberator, a widly anti slavery newspaper in the north
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oregon territory
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- catholic missionairies
- caused native american plague - split with British - |
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Stephen Douglas
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- construction of railroads
- refused to support Kansas as a free state - no moral position on slavery |
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Wilmot Proviso
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a bill that would block slavery from extending to Mexico
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Maine law
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restricted sale and consumption of alcohol
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abolitionists
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a reformer who favors abolishing slavery
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bleeding Kansas
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John Brown vs Slavery
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Horace Mann
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won support for buildling public schools
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transcendentalism
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a group of ideas in literature and philosophy that developed in the 1830s and '40s as a protest against the general state of culture and society, and in particular, the state of intellectualism at Harvard University and the doctrine of the Unitarian church taught at Harvard Divinity School. Among transcendentalists' core beliefs was the belief in an ideal spirituality that "transcends" the physical and empirical and is realized only through the individual's intuition, rather than through the doctrines of established religions.
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Webster Ashburn Treaty
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The Webster–Ashburton Treaty, signed August 9, 1842, was a treaty resolving several border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies, particularly a dispute over the location of the Maine–New Brunswick border. ...
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Hinton Helper
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published a book which he dedicated to the "nonslaveholding whites" of the South. The Impending Crisis of the South, written partly in North Carolina but published when the author was in the North, argued that slavery hurt the economic prospects of non-slaveholders, and was an impediment to the growth of the entire region of the South
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Mexican Cession
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gave up Arizona (unfortunatly), New MExio, Texas, and (ugh) Utah
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Cyrus McCormack
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the reeper
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Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo
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ended MExican war
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John Slidell
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staunch defender of southern rights
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free soilers
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people who believed slavery should not spread to other states
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clayton bulwer treaty
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a treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom, negotiated in 1850 by John M. Clayton and Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, later Lord Dalling. It was negotiated in response to attempts to build the Nicaragua Canal, a canal in Nicaragua that would connect the Pacific and the Atlantic.
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spoils system
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a spoil system (also known as a patronage system) is a practice where a political party, after winning an election, gives government jobs to its voters as a reward for working toward victory, and as an incentive to keep working for the party—
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Trent Affair
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On November 8, 1861, the USS San Jacinto, commanded by Union Captain Charles Wilkes, intercepted the British mail packet Trent and removed, as contraband of war, two Confederate diplomats, James Mason and John Slidell. The envoys were bound for Great Britain and France to press the Confederacy’s case for diplomatic recognition by Europe.
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Kansas nebraska act
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created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries
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