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The figure most associated with the Second Great Awakening
Who was Charles Finney?
An animal useful for mobility, status, and easy feeding and maintenance
What is a horse?
Argued for the transition of America from an agricultural to manufacturing or industrial economy
What was Hamilton's Report on Manufactures?
Law whereby Missouri was admitted to the United States as a slave state while Maine was admitted as a free state. It was significant because it kept the senate balanced as well as drew a line on the 36-30 parallel where anything below the line would be allowed to have slavery and anything above, slavery would be illegal.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
A belief that slavery was morally wrong and should be made illegal in all states
Born into slavery in Haiti, he rebelled against Napoleon to establish freedom for Haiti and abolish slavery in the country. He was significant since his rebellion began efforts to stop the US from gaining control of Haiti after the treaty of 1802 was signed
Who was Toussaint L'ouverture?
Early instruments of textile manufacturing that eliminated significant manual portions of the process and divided labor into tasks rather than processes
What were Lowell and Slater mills?
Author of a speech designed to to convince Native peoples that white cultural influence, such as alcohol or cigarettes must be abandoned in order to preserve indigenous culture
Who is Tenskwatawa?
The forced removal of Native Americans from their ancestral lands east of the Mississippi River to territories west of the river by President Andrew Jackson's authorization.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
A religious movement that signaled a departure from the Calvinism of New England Puritanism and a shift toward human free will and individual piety
What was the Second Great Awakening?
Born enslaved in New York in 1797, gained freedom in 1826, and changed her name in 1843 after a transforming religious experience. She is a significant figure because she was an abolitionist who performed powerful speeches on abolition and women's rights, greatly influencing the public especially with her 1851 speech linking sympathy for enslaved for that of industrial female workers.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
An 1819 Supreme Court case that ruled that Maryland's decision to tax a branch of the national bank was unconstitutional and thus created a precedent for the federal use of implied powers to intervene in the economy on the basis of the Necessary and Proper Clause
What was McCulloch vs. Maryland?
Object that serves as the central motif in Tiya Miles's All That She Carried
What is a cloth sack?
A political arrangement in 1803 where the United States bought a large piece of land from France for $15 million and was significant because it literally doubled the size of the U.S. and gave Americans more land to explore and settle westward.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
A movement to end the sale and consumption of alcohol by portraying it as harmful to society; led primarily by women
What is the Temperance Movement?
A member of the Cherokee nation who invented a Cherokee writing system in the 1810s. Ultimately resulted in the Cherokee nation becoming more literate and the publication of bilingual newspapers (such as the Cherokee Phoenix).
Who is Sequoyah?
A poltical party that emerged in the 1850s that opposed the expansion of slavery because it hurt free labor
What is the Republican party?
Chartered a process for admitting new states to the Union west of the Ohio River
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
A policy created by the United States in 1823 which opposed any European colonialism in the western hemisphere, which was significant because it suggested that any foreign act of expansion in this territory would be a hostile interference with US political powers that could result in conflict.
The notion that the United States was destined to expand westward and acquire territory across North America while establishing democracy, capitalism, and Christianity
What is Manifest Destiny?
An abolitionist who founded The Liberator, an anti-slavery newspaper. He argued for immediate abolition rather than gradualism, as well as opposing the popular "colonization" solution.
Who was Lloyd Garrison?
A system whereby investors leveraged labor in local communities by buying raw materials and selling it to local families to assemble, then sent it to merchants.
What is the putting-out system?
A petition signed by 3,352 Cherokee Indians to the U.S. Senate asking that a new treaty designed to take away Cherokee land rights not be ratified
What is The Petition against the New Echota Treaty?
A bill proposed that would ban the expansion of slavery into new territories acquired from the Mexican War. It is significant because it was the beginning of politics being divided by regional lines, rather than party lines.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
The idea that the end of history was imminent and would culminate in Jesus's 1,000 year reign on earth; inspired several social reform movements at the time of the Second Great Awakening
What is millennialism?