Reforms
The reform movement built around achieving personal holiness is responsible for launching many of the reform movements of the Antebellum period.
2nd Great Awakening
Dorothea Dix's efforts helped to reform these institutions.
Mental Hospitals
This nationalist/imperialist notion, coined by John Sullivan, helped encourage & justify American westward expansion.
Manifest Destiny
Many early explorers to the American West went in search of riches harvesting this valuable resource and selling them to eastern markets.
Furs
This failed proposal forbade slavery in all new western lands.
Wilmot Proviso
Stephen Douglas introduced this disastrous bill which allowed two would-be states to determine the issue of slavery on their own terms.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The political party galvanized around a former president, Millard Fillmore, and nativist sentiments an helped to further weaken the Whig party.
Know-Nothing Party
Early mormons were chased out of New York and eventually into Utah for this moral reason.
Polygamy
Horace Mann toward helping take this reform movement from a local, Massachusetts movement, into a nationwide movement.
Education
This president began the process of annexing Texas into the Union.
John Tyler
This notoriously difficult overland trail brought settlers all the way to settle new lands on the Pacific Coast.
Oregon Trail
Name 2 balancing elements (Abolitionist & pro-slavery) of the Compromise of 1850 which was struck to avoid a Southern secession movement.
California - Free State
Utah & New Mexico - Territories with agency over their admission
Texas - Border resolved & debts assumed by the US
D.C. - Slave trade banned
Fugitive Slave Law - Enforcement in the North
The New England Emigrant Aid Company supported the abolitionist cause by helping abolition-minded settlers settle into this territory, which led to violence, and a new term for this territory.
Kansas
"Bleeding Kansas"
Backed by this former one-term president, this political party formed around opposition to slavery and reserving land for white settlers in the West.
Martin van Buren
Free Soil
The Oneida group is a successful example of this type of reformer.
Utopian Communities
Name a famous reformer that helped to organize the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
The southern portion of Texas (to the Rio Grande) and the Mexican Cession were granted to the US by this war treaty.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This inventor developed the telegraph which allowed for fast electric communication across the North American continent.
Samuel Morse
This Harriet Beecher Stowe book helped northerners gain an understanding of the life of a southern slave.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This NY abolitionist responded to this pro slavery group's violence in the west by traveling to Pottawatomie Creek KS in order to make a violent abolitionist statement.
John Brown
Border Ruffians
This political party formed in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act primarily as a political home for abolitionists.
Republican Party
Harriet Tubman supported the abolitionist cause by supporting the escape of runaway slaves along this.
Underground Railroad
This transcendentalist opposed the Mexican-American War & contributed to the Abolition movement with his persuasive essay "On Civil Disobedience".
Henry David Thoreau
In order to balance the inclusion of Texas as a slave state, the Treaty of 1846 resolved this states boundary dispute ("54' 40" or Fight!").
Oregon
Gold brought these settlers to California in a wave of gold rush migration.
'49ers
Though a northerner, Pierce wins the election of 1852 because of his support to uphold this piece of the Compromise of 1850.
Fugitive Slave Law
Undeserving of a duel, Preston Brooks (SC) defended his uncle's honor by beating Senator Sumner (MA) with this on the floor of the Senate.
A Cane
Because of the splintering of the Whigs, this candidate ran away with the South in the election of 1856.
James Buchanan
Identify the document drafting advocating for women's rights at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.
"Declaration of Sentiments"
This Abolitionist worked along side William Lloyd Garrison, writing for the "Liberator" before branching out and starting his own publication, "The North Star".
Frederick Douglas
President Pierce's contribution to Manifest Destiny was this land acquisition of a flat(er) region in the Southern Rockies.
Gadsden Purchase
The Gadsden purchase was originally made in order to create a relatively easy path to build this overland route.
Transcontinental Railroad
The Dred Scott decision favored this "Natural Right" of American citizens over the ability of slaves in America to emancipate themselves.
Property
John Brown raided this federal arsenal to arm VA slaves in an attempt to spark a civil war.
Harper's Ferry
His less than full-throated support of the Dred Scott decision split the Democrat party and swung the 1860 election in favor of this candidate, his republican adversary.
Stephen Douglas
Abraham Lincoln