Election of 1824
Why did the election of 1824 go to the House?
What is no candidate got a majority of electoral votes?
They assimilated to American culture by adopting new technologies, marrying into white families, owning slaves, and even adopting a form of government modeled directly after the US constitution.
What did Native Americans do to help retain their ancestral lands?
a radical who founded The Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper, in Boston in 1831. He advocated immediate emancipation and civil equality for African Americans
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
Utopias were societies that sought to achieve _______
What is perfection?
One of the forerunners of the transcendentalist movement who preached the idea of individualism/self-reliance, and rejected following tradition
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
The political party formed by "King" President Jackson's opponents.
Who are Whigs?
This state legislature gave up their western land claims in return for the removal of all native americans within their state.
What is the Georgia legislature?
What did Abolitionists advocate?
What is legal, but not social equality for African Americans?
Who founded the group of Shakers?
Who is Anne Lee?
Organized public lectures addressing the transcendentalist movement and appealed most to those of the middle class in the North and Midwest
What is the Lyceum movement?
Which party disappeared during the era of good feeling?
This agreement promised land and money for all native Americans who gave up their landholdings east of the Mississippi river.
What is the Indian Act Removal of 1830?
an anti-slavery newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp beginning in 1831. Its bitter attacks on slavery and slaveowners, as well as its articles and speeches using arguments based on morality to advocate immediate emancipation made it one of the most persuasive periodicals in the United States at the time.
Who founded the Oneida community in 1848, New York?
Created by Emersonians in an attempt for new social institutions, but shortly after turned into an economic failure
What is Brook Farm?
Who did president James Monroe hope would win the election?
In this court case stated that the states did not have the right to impose regulations on native american land. In this case, chief justice John Marshall and the court sided against georgia.
What is Worcester vs. Georgia?
an abolitionist student at the Lane Theological Seminary. He was dismissed when, in 1834, the trustees of the seminary tried to suppress abolitionism
Theodore Weld
What was the impact of Utopianism?
What is bringing a positive change to society?
Rejected the idea of conforming to societal norms and in doing so lived in a cabin near Walden pond for two years straight in isolation from the rest of society
Who is Henry Thoreau?
Which man was accused of making a "corrupt bargain" with Henry Clay?
Who is John Quincy Adams?
Forced relocation of the cherokees further west of the US by Jackson’s troops causing thousands of deaths throughout the process
What is the Trail of Tears?
a secret network of antislavery northerners who illegally helped fugitive slaves escape to free states or Canada during the period before the American Civil War
What was the Underground Railroad?
How were Shakers characterized?
What is promoting celibacy and equal rights for women?
Started a group for educated women in Boston embracing the principles of transcendentalism, but most prominently advocated for the relations with god.
Who is Margaret Fuller?