Movements
A second religious fervor that swept the nation. It converted more than the first. It also had an effect on moral movements such as prison reform, the temperance movement, and moral reasoning against slavery.
Second Great Awakening
What helped Jackson to eventually becoming President
Being a War Hero
1800s belief that Americans had the right to spread across the continent.
Manifest Destiny
United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North (1820-1913)
Harriet Tubbman
A person who worked to end slavery.
Abolitionist
movement to grant women the right to vote
Womans Suffrage
A system of public employment based on rewarding party loyalists and friends.
Spoils System
A Spanish mission converted into a fort, it was besieged by Mexican troops in 1836. The Texas garrison held out for thirteen days, but in the final battle, all of the Texans were killed by the larger Mexican force.
Alamo
American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer.
Fredrick Douglass
Famous saying at the battle of San Jancinto that TExan yelled over and over
Remember the Alamo
(1848) the first national women's rights convention at which the Declaration of Sentiments was written
Seneca Falls Convention
(1830) a congressional act that authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River
IndianRemoval Act
"Compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.
Missouri Comprimise
United States frontiersman and Tennessee politician who died at the siege of the Alamo (1786-1836)
David Crockett
the 1836 rebellion of Texans against Mexican rule that resulted in Texas becoming an independent nation
Texas War for Independence
declared that all "people are created equal"; used the Declaration of Independence to argue for women's rights
Declaration of Sentiments
A sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson created by the Ordinance of Nullification, an attempt by the state of South Carolina to nullify a federal law - the tariff of 1828 - passed by the United States Congress.
Nullification Crisis
Mexican Rules for settling Texas
1. Become Mexican citizen
2. Learn Spanish
3. Be catholic
Tennessee Quaker who published an abolitionist newspaper called The Emancipator. Use to own slaves
Elihu Embree
Commander of the Texas army at the battle of San Jacinto; later elected president of the Republic of Texas
Sam Houston
This Amendment gave women the right to vote
19th Amendment
the forced removal of Cherokees and their transportation to Oklahoma
Trail Of Tears
(1836) Final battle of the Texas Revolution; resulted in the defeat of the Mexican army and independence for Texas. Santa Anna gets captured
Battle of San Jancinto
1805-1879. Prominent American abolitionist, journalist and social reformer. Editor of radical abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator", and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
William Lloyd Garrison
Law put in place in America that taxed foreign goods. It made South Carolina so mad they wanted to leave the United States
Tariff of 1828