Andrew Jackson enacted this to move Natives west of the Mississippi in 1830
The Indian Removal Act
This group opposed the Benevolent Empire
The poor/working class
Supported this system created by Henry Clay
The American System
This person is known as the father of Transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A series of safe places runaway slaves would be taken to. It saved about 1,000 each year.
The Underground Railroad
This group tried to assimilate in Georgia
Cherokees
This motivated people to create the Benevolent Empire
Higher crime rates or prostitution
This area of the country was unhappy with his policies because higher tariffs led to higher prices of manufactures
The South
This person was about acting on Transcendentalist ideals rather than just thinking about them
Henry David Thoreau
This group was against resorting to violence and proclaimed that being an enslaver is a sin
Evangelical Abolitionists
This treaty gave the Cherokees 5 million dollars and land in Oklahoma in exchange for their ancestral land
Treaty of New Echota
This was the most successful social reform of this time that took place against alcohol
Temperance
This was the Corrupt Bargain
If Henry Clay helped Adams win the presidency, Adams would elect him as Secretary of State
These were some of Transcendentalism's core beliefs
Individualism, connection to nature, personal intuition, inner truth, ect.
When abolitionists attacked slave catchers and freed their captives, they would often send the captives they freed here.
British Canada
This court case determined that the Cherokees were not an independent nation
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia 1831
This was used to enforce their ideas
Blue Laws
This was what made his election unique. Spurred disagreements over the electoral college
There was no absolute majority - the House of Representatives chose from the top three
This was the lyceum movement
arranged lecture tours by made up of poets, preachers, scientists, and reformers that became popular in the North/Midwest
This group began a 'great postal campaign' in 1835 to support the cause
The American Anti-Slavery Society
This group remained numerically significant in Florida
Seminoles
This movement tried to enforce the day of rest on Sunday
Sabaterian Movement
These were the 3 key factors of the American System
- Protect tariffs to stimulate manufacturing
- Federally subsidized roads + canals to facilitate commerce
- National bank to control credit + provide uniform currency
The failure of this place served as a case against Transcendentalism
Brook Farm
This law allowed people to seize suspected runaways and force them back into bondage
Fugitive Slave Law 1793