People
writer and philosopher, spent a night in jail when he refused to pay a tax that supported slavery.
Henry David Thoreau
The U.S. victory over Mexico ultimately contributed to the growing conflict between the _________ and ___________.
North and the South
led slave revolts in the first half of the 1800s
Nat Turner
The right to vote
suffrage
trail from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon that was used by pioneers in the mid-1800s
Oregon Trail
former slave from New York who entranced audiences with powerful speeches and arguments, abolitionist.
Sojourner Truth
political philosophy concerned with the interests of the common people and limiting the role of the federal government.
Jacksonian Democracy
most influential leader of the public school movement, believed in the importance of education to both the individual and society.
Horace Mann
practice of the political party in power giving jobs and appointments to its supporters, rather than people based on their qualifications
Spoils System
document issues by the Seneca Falls Convention calling for equal rights for women.
Declaration of Sentiments
one of the most influential revivalists of the Second Great Awakening
Charles Grandison Finney
movement aimed at stopping alcohol abuse and the problems created by it
Temperence Movement
organized the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1830.
Joseph Smith
person who favors expanding the territory or influence of a country.
Expansionist
1848 treaty ending the Mexican-American War
Treaty of Guadalupe
Jackson’s vice president, championed nullification
John C Calhoun
Where did the Second Great Awakening begin?
Kentucky Frontier
campaigned for human treatment of people with mental illnesses
Dorothea Dix
nonviolent refusal to follow laws that ones considers to be immoral.
Civil Disobedience
region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla
Gadsden Purchase
published the antislavery newspaper, The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
In 1836, southern politicians, with some northern support, passed a Gag Rule that prohibited Congress from debating the subject of ____________________?
abolition
Lucretia Mott
a Quaker, helped found the American Slavery Anti-Slavery Society and the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society.
economic depression caused partly by unstable paper money
Panic of 1837
concept in which states void any federal law they deemed unconstitutional
nullification