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"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"
What is Declaration of Sentiments
100
Had the ideas of Neolin and was the enemy of the Americans. Played both sides during the revolution in order to get what he wanted for the Indians
What is Tecumseh
100
America should move westward
What is Manifest Destiny
100
Laws that attempt to maintain slavery without calling it that. They are different in every state.
What is Black Codes
100
Small interest groups that began after the American Revolution
What is Factions
200
“The United States will conquer Mexico, but it will be as the man swallows the arsenic, which brings him down in turn. Mexico will poison us.”
What is A Dose of Arsenic
200
Wanted to kill native americans because they were the reason poor whites were not getting their promised land
What is Bacon's Rebellion
200
Women should be family oriented and work at home. Supported by men and women
What is Cult of Domesticity
200
States get to decide whether they are free or slave, this is a violation of the Missouri Compromise. Causes a lot of conflict and invalid voting
What is Kansas-Nebraska Act
200
Mostly formed of Whigs, feared that the U.S. was being taken over, an effort to limit the political influence of immigrants
What is Know Nothing's
300
“Citizens, my soul shrinks from herself, and startles at the name of Africa! Where we have heaped crime upon crime! Where we have excited murders, robberies, and burnings, that we might punish them in our own land with endless, hopeless slavery … Declaration of Independence! Where art thou now?”
What is A July Fourth Oration
300
Claimed there was economic corruption within the wealthy whites. Spurred the constitutional convention
What is Shays' Rebellion
300
The idea that whites and blacks cannot live together therefore they need to be sent back to Africa
What is Colonization
300
The idea of slavery moving westward.One side says that slavery will eventually fizzle out and the other side says slavery is up to the states to decide whether it will be implemented into their state
What is Lincoln-Douglas Debates
300
Colonists used the Spanish as an excuse to "save" the Indians by doing something called...
What is The Black Legend
400
"We wish to remain on the land of our fathers. The treaties with us, and laws of the United States made in pursuance of treaties, guaranty our residence, and our privileges, and secure us against intruders. our only request is, that these treaties may be fulfilled, and these laws executed."
What is Appeal of a Cherokee Nation
400
Native American leader who said that Indians need to unite in order to revolt against the Americans (1761)
What is Neolin
400
Slaves like being enslaved because they are taken care of and given housing, food, and clothing
What is Paternalism
400
If you have a certain number of slaves you do not have to fight in the war
What is Twenty-Negro Provision
400
Benjamin Butler used this term for escaped slaves during the civil war
What is Contrabands
500
"We understand that we have, in common with all other men, a natural & unalienable right to that freedom, which God has given equally to all and which we have never given up in any contract or agreement"
What is Petition of Slaves to the Massachusetts Legislature
500
White abolitionist who tries to form a slave revolt in Harpers Ferry and is captured and executed
What is John Brown
500
Women were educated in order to teach their sons so they could be active citizens
What is Republican Motherhood
500
Poor white men in the north do not want to fight in the war because they either do not have loyalties to the U.S. or do not care about slavery. This resulted in...
What is New York Draft Riots
500
Agency that was created to ensure southern freedom. Helped blacks and poor whites. Intended to "keep the peace"
What is Freedman's Bureau