People
Worked to for prison and asylum reform
Dorothea Dix
the fight against slavery
abolitionism
River that provided the waterway to bring cotton crops to market
Powerful Native American tribe in the southwest that dominated trade
Comanche
Mineral discovered in California that led to mass migration
gold
Second Great Awakening preacher who led numerous revivals in New York
Charles G. Finney
the work to end drinking
Temperance
Method used to maintain the slavery system
violence
New York Tribune editor who advocated that people "Go West!"
Horace Greely
Leader of the Bear Flag Revolt
John C. Fremont
Founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - the Mormons
Joseph Smith
Convention in 1848 where women's rights were advocated
First original American music composed by African Americans
spirituals
Where Scandinavian and German settlers migrated
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan
Asian nations in which the U.S. opened trade
Japan and China
Founder of the Transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
perfectionism
Leader of a slave revolt aboard the Spanish ship the Amistad
Joseph Cinque
He opposed the removal of Native Americans from Georgia
John Ross
He led filibuster expeditions
William Walker
Transcendental philosopher, author of Walden and believed in non-violent resistance to unjust laws
First American college to award college degrees to women
Wesleyan College
Author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs
War Native Americans fought against removal from the Old Northwest
Black Hawk's War