Transcendentalists
Movement that emerged in the early 19th Century promoting art, literature, music...
Romanticism
Definition of "chattel"
Moveable property
Movement to stop the manufacture & consumption of alcohol
Temperance Movement
President of the United States when the Mexican War began
James K. Polk
Anti-slavery political party from the early 1850s
Free Soil Party
Author of novels taking place on the American frontier
James Fenimore Cooper
Laws further limiting the rights of slaves
Slave Codes
Author of the Declaration of Sentiments
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Leader of the Texian Army
Sam Houston
Political party that despised foreigners
Know Nothings
Transcendentalist who advocated for civil disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
Most important cash crop in the mid-1800s in the South
Cotton
Individual who led the bloodiest slave uprising in American history
Nat Turner
Name of the treaty that ended the Mexican War
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Chief Justice who wrote the majority opinion for the Dred Scott Case.
Roger Taney
Movement founded by Joseph Smith
Church of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons)
Idea that slavery was okay because there had always been an under class at the bottom of society
Location of the first women's rights convention
Seneca Falls, NY
Commander of the Mexican Army
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
South Carolina Congressman _________________ brutally beat Senator ________________ on the floor of the Senate Chamber.
Preston Brooks; Charles Sumner
Location of the first Utopian society
Brook Farm
The reason the South never developed widespread industrialization in the 19th Century
DAILY DOUBLE
Name of the famous abolitionist newspaperman from Boston & his newspaper
William Lloyd Garrison; The Liberator
Name of the river that Mexico claimed as the southern boundary of Texas
Nueces River
Reason Stephen A. Douglas wrote and pushed the Kansas-Nebraska Act through Congress
Win national attention so he could eventually run for the presidency