Reform Movements
This movement wanted to limit alcohol consumption in the US
Temperance
Land purchase in 1803
Louisiana Purchase
War fought from 1845-1848 sparked by a border dispute
Mexican-American War
The right to vote
suffrage
Leader of Education Reform
Horace Mann
Art movement focused on Nature and Wildlife
Hudson River School
Territory that won its independence in 1836 and formally joined the United States in 1845
Texas; Republic of Texas; Annexation of Texas; Tejas and (disputedly) portions of Coahuila, Nuevo Mexico, Santander, Nueva Vizcaya
Group looking for GOLD in the streams of California in the end of the 1840's
49ers; Prospectors
Adding a territory
Annexation
Harriet Tubman
Emancipate; Educate
Land acquisition to complete the Transcontinental Railroad
Gadsden Purchase
Group of people that moved out West in search of Religious Freedom; established Salt Lake City
Mormons
To give up a territory
Cede
Wrote the Newspaper, The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
Manifesto written at the Seneca Fall's Convention to describe the American Woman's grievances
Declaration of Sentiments
Country AND Treaty that ceded Florida to the United States
Spain; Adams-Onis
Treaty that ceded all territory from California to New Mexico to the United States for $15 mil
Guadalupe Hidalgo
To free (context of slavery)
Emancipate
Wanted to reform the treatment of mentally ill persons; also pushed to improve the conditions of prisons. Used her own wealth to further the cause and open alternative mental asylums.
Dorthea Dix
Book written by a woman in the perspective of a Southern slave. Best selling original book of the 1800s. A major reason for the decline of support for slavery.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Law that established the method for which territories become states
Northwest Ordinance
What latitude line was the Oregon territory divided at?
49th parallel
Term for the process of joining or adjusting to another culture
Assimilation
Early Secret Labor Union - specifically for tailors
Knights of Labor