Democracy & Jackson
This system rewarded government jobs to loyal political supporters.
What is the Spoils System?
He was the leader of the public education movement.
Who was Horace Mann?
He published The Liberator and co-founded the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
What was the main goal of the Women’s Rights Movement in the 1800s?
What is achieving equality for women in law and society (especially suffrage)?
The belief that the U.S. was destined to expand across North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Jackson’s vice president who supported nullification and states’ rights.
Who was John C. Calhoun?
This preacher helped spark the Second Great Awakening.
Who was Charles Grandison Finney?
She was a former slave who became a famous “conductor” on the Underground Railroad.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
She wrote the Declaration of Sentiments and co-organized the Seneca Falls convention with Lucretia Mott, got into the womens rights movement because she was denied the right to speak at an abolition convention in London.
Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
President most associated with Manifest Destiny and expansion.
Who was James K. Polk?
This law forced Native Americans west of the Mississippi.
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
She fought for the rights of the mentally ill and for prison reform.
Who was Dorothea Dix?
Explain one connection between the abolition movement and the women’s rights movement.
What was the Underground Railroad?
The Seneca Falls Convention was held in this year.
What was 1848? (I'll give it to the team that gets the closest)
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War and gave the U.S. California, New Mexico, and Texas.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This event forced thousands of Native Americans on a deadly march to Indian Territory.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The Temperance Movement tried to reduce or end the use of this.
What is alcohol?
What was the purpose of the Quilt Code used by abolitionists and the enslaved?
To hide secret messages and directions to help enslaved people escape.
He was the only African American man to sign the Declaration of Sentiments.
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
Name two hardships settlers faced on the Oregon Trail.
What are disease, accidents, weather, food shortages (any two)?
Explain one way Jackson expanded democracy and one way his policies hurt others.
What is expanding suffrage for white men but harming Native Americans through removal (or others like vetoing the bank, ignoring Calhoun and adding more tarriffs)?
Explain how the Second Great Awakening influenced social reform movements.
It encouraged people to improve themselves and society, leading to reform movements like abolition, temperance, and women’s rights.
Explain one connection between the abolition movement and the women’s rights movement.
Many women abolitionists also fought for gender equality; both movements pushed for rights and freedoms for the oppressed.
Define “suffrage."
What is the right to vote?
Explain how Manifest Destiny led to conflict with Mexico.
U.S. desire to expand into Texas and the Southwest caused disputes and war with Mexico.