The American idea that it has the right and responsibility to spread it's civilization from the Atlantic to Pacific oceans.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
What does Women's Suffrage mean?
What is women's right to vote.
100
Freeing of the Slaves
What is emancipation?
100
A meeting where people would reconnect with their Christianity.
What is a revival meeting
100
The Missouri Compromise
What was the separating of slave and free territory at the southern border of Missouri heading due west and Missouri being a slave state, while Maine was a free state.
200
The Native American's reaction to being displaced from the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains was....
What is anger, confusion, fear etc.
200
Why is the Seneca Falls Convention seen as so important for this movement?
What is... it was the beginning of an organized effort to increase Women's Rights.
200
David Walker, Frederick Douglas and William Lloyd Garrison
What is Important Abolitionist?
200
Transcendentalism
What was the movement to bring American's closer to nature.
200
The Bill of Rights
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution that describe peoples individual rights.
300
They were paths settlers took westward, to provide security for their travel.
What was the the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails?
300
Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony
Who was one important female reformer?
300
The word for the time period leading up to the Civil War.
What is Antebellum
300
The Second Great Awakening
What was the name of the creation of new idea's about Christianity during the 1830's and 1840's?
300
The Louisiana Purchase
What was the purchase of much of the west from France, under the presidency of Thomas Jefferson.
400
A controversial religious group, the Mormons, went westward to...
What is... flee religious persecution?
400
The Cult of Domesticity stands for what?
The status quo, or typical expectation for women in the 1800's.
400
The Gag Rule
A rule in the US House of Representatives saying that slavery could not be debated.
400
The Declaration of Independence
What was the document describing the crimes committed by Britain against it's American colonies and saying that America was in revolt against Britain.
500
Make an argument that Manifest Destiny was either good, or bad. Provide detailed evidence...
Good Job
500
Why was the inheritance issue such a major source of anger for female reformers?
The were left with nothing if their husband died and then there son's did not want to give them anything.
500
An important skill denied to slaves, because it meant that they could communicate over long distances and spread stories of their struggle.
What is reading and writing
500
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
What are Transcendentalist Authors.
500
The Battle of New Orleans
What was the last battle of the War of 1812, which actually happened after the war was already over. The American army was led by Andrew Jackson.