Abolitionism
The action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution.
What is Abolition?
The two parties that formed the Whig Party.
What were the National Republican Party and the Anti-Masonic Party?
An intellectual movement rooted in the religious soil of New England.
What is Transcendentalism?
An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.
What is a utopia?
An informal network of whites and free African Americans in southern towns that assisted fugitives.
What is the Underground Railroad?
These people published the first African American newspaper called Freedom's Journal in 1827.
Who are John Russwurm and Samuel D Cornish?
Jackson's chosen successor.
Who is Martin Van Buren?
Advocates for Transcendentalism, embraced human passion and sought deeper insight into mysteries of existence.
Who were Unitarians?
First successful American communal movement.
What were the Shakers?
A social theory favoring freedom of action for individuals over collective or state control.
What was Individualism?
This person published a stirring pamphlet called An Appeal ... to the Colonial Citizens of the World (1829). He called for a national convention in Philadelphia to free African Americans from slavery.
Who is David Walker?
Who is James G Birney?
A communal experiment that failed horribly.
What was the Brook Farm?
The economic and/or social stance that many of these utopian societies were built on.
What is socialism? / What is sexual equality?
An evangelical Protestant movement of the 1830s that attracted thousands of New Englanders. Believed that Christ had already returned to Earth.
What is perfectionism?
Who is Nat Turner?
The first Whig President.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
One of the most influential unitarians, a philosopher.
Who was Emerson?
Many farmers and artisans joined these rural utopian communals because of this economic event.
What is the Panic of 1837?
In this state, Mormons successfully thrived through corporative labor and an irrigation system. They had to "give up" the practice of polygamy in order to become a state. (They never actually did give up polygamy)
What is Utah?
Most determined abolitionist, helped establish the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
President that dispatched a small army to Utah to deal with the Mormon's uprising.
Who is James Buchanan?
Beginning in 1826, movement modeled on the public forum of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle.
What was the lyceum movement?
Person who rejected marriage, embraced complex marriages, rejected monogamy party to free women from their status as the property of their husbands.
Who is John Humphrey Noyes?
Four candidates from the Whig Party went up against one candidate from the Democrats during this election. All four Whig candidates lost. (NOT LOOKING FOR A PERSON)
What was the Election of 1840?