Period 4
Wilmot Proviso
keep slavery out of new territories from Mexico but never became law because it failed to pass the Senate
Reform movements of 1830s & 1840s made up of? gender + religion + social class
Middle class Protestant women from cities
VA Nat Turner & SC Denmark Vesey: Known for? Manner of death?
Both planned slave rebellions & both executed
Know-Nothings focused its efforts on? guns, no alcohol, immigration, women's rights
IMMIGRATION
Master has right to own slaves but also to protect & care for them; justified slavery
Paternalism
value system that was influential to the upper and middle class women: purpose revolved around childbearing and making her home a haven of rest
Cult of Domesticity
James Tallmadge's proposed 1819 Amendment
No more slaves could be brought into the Missouri Territory & children born to slaves would be free
Abolitionist publisher of The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
Late 1840s Migration: People went to which 2 Western states?
Oregon (families for free land); California (gold)
Which political party collapsed when the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in 1854
Whigs
“Fifty-four forty or fight” - which state?
Oregon
Why was the steamboat such an important invention?
Man has control over current; could go upstream; no longer reliant on wind
Samuel Slater
“Father of the American Factory System”
What did the US get from the Adams-Onis Treaty (1819)
Florida
Specific result of Eli Whitney's 1793 cotton gin
Demand for slaves grew; 5,000% more efficient than a human; impacted economies of North & South
SC man & Jackson's VP who proposed Theory of Nullification to declare the Tariff of 1828 unconstitutional (house is now part of Clemson)
John C Calhoun
How did the War of 1812 ultimately strengthen the American economy?
Decreased need for imports; Americans now manufactured what we needed; self-reliant
Most influential African American of 19th century
Frederick Douglass
Louisiana Purchase gave US control over what body of water? Good for trade!
Mississippi River
1819 Sup Ct case: states could not tax the National Bank; established the precedence of national law over state law
McCulloch v Maryland
From 1820 to 1854, most immigrants came from where?
Ireland
President associated with Manifest Destiny? Polk, Johnson, Wilson, Reagan?
POLK (haven't done other guys yet)
Two Things about Phillis Wheatley
1 female; 2 slave to Boston owner; 3 published poet in 18th Century
1824 Supreme Court: Congress has the power to regulate commerce; federal law takes precedence over state laws
Gibbons v. Ogden
Brook Farm; Oneida Community; New Harmony, IN were all what kinds of places?
Utopian communities