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| Event that it set to happen. |
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| Sent by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Purchase |
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| Where a lot of transcendentalists set up a new community. Created a perfect, Utopian community. Based on philosophy and social system. Eventually, people started arguing and it wasn't perfect anymore |
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| Caused southerners to clamp down on their slaves. Said he was approached by God to gather a group and rebel. One night they killed their masters and their families. When he was captured in his confession he was defiant and said God told him to do it. Eventually he was hanged. Afterwords, the laws started becoming stricter and being more enforced. People walking down the street at the wrong time could end up hanged. |
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| Caused southerners to clamp down on their slaves. Said he was approached by God to gather a group and rebel. One night they killed their masters and their families. When he was captured in his confession he was defiant and said God told him to do it. Eventually he was hanged. Afterwords, the laws started becoming stricter and being more enforced. People walking down the street at the wrong time could end up hanged. |
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| 1819. Acquired Florida and Oregon from Spain |
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| 1823. Nicknamed Era of Good Feelings. Warned people not to interfere with independent nations of the Western Hemisphere. |
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| Missouri Compromise of 1820 |
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Admission of new states to change the balance of power in the senate.
New states: Missouri (slave), Maine (free).
New states North of the 36 30 North parallel would be free; south of the line would be slave. |
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| 1819. National bank was constitutional. Invoked the Necessary and Proper Clause. |
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| The election of 1824 was said by Andrew Jackson to be a "corrupt bargain." He said that Clay helped get Adams elected in return for the cabinet position. |
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| Adams signed the tariff 1828. The tariff protected the Southern industry that was being driven out of business by low-priced goods in the US. |
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| Universal Manhood Suffrage |
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| Jackson wanted this for the white males so they would no longer have to have property to vote. Jackson focused on the less wealthy people and their needs. |
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| Andrew Jackson wanted to destroy the second bank. He said it was only there to aid the rich and powerful. He ordered all the funds to be removed from the bank and placed into pet banks to give states more power. |
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| The place where the funds removed from the US bank were put. Jackson wanted to give states more power over the economy. |
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| After Jackson ordered for the funds to be removed, economic chaos happened. Which lead to the panic of 1837. Every bank stopped payment and the panic was followed by a 5 year depression. Unemployment was very high. |
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Machines that separates seed from raw fibers.
Eli Whitney, slaves, southern planters
1793, spread in early 1800s
More slaves for picking, plantation grew
Southern economy became dependent on cotton
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| Nickname of the Cotton Gin. Became reliant on the plantation system |
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Invented the steel plow. Made it possible to plant hard soil.
Opened up the hard prairie lands in the West for farming. Increased settlement.
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| Invented Mechanical Reaper. Made it easy to harvest wheat. Settlement increases to the West. |
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Replaced manual labor with machines powered by coal and steam.
"Era of Good Feelings"
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Samuel Slater brought the British factory design to the US. North became dependent on the system.
In the North it relied on the lower classes and immigrants to move to cities & work in the factories.
Defenders of plantation argued that the conditions were as bad as slaves.
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Introduced by Eli Whitney.
Each part could be easily replaced.
Makes production easier.
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Opposed further immigration.
Immigrants that assimilated into American culture would often become Nativists themselves.
Southerners were against immigration because it increased the North's population.
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| The secret society began to elect state officials to ban immigration |
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Connected New York City to the Great Lakes
Made New York City a commercial Center
Manufactured goods and traveled to western customers
Agricultural goods traveled to eastern factories
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Invented the steamboat.
Increased movement & trade to the Erie Canal and Mississippi River.
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Invented the telegraph machine.
Created instant communication throughout the continent
Increased the speed of business
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| Part of Henry Clay's American System. |
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| Forced the Choctaw, Creek and Cherokee nations to move to Oklahoma |
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| Thousands died on the journey to Oklahoma when government assistance that had been promised did not show up |
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| Stephen Austin brought settlers to Mexican territory. Texans began to make their stand at the Alamo. James Polk won the election and Texas was annexed as a state. |
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| Fifty-four forty or fight! |
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| Promise to expand the border to present day Alaska. Britian compromises at the 49th parallel |
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| Mexico considered annexation a declaration of war. US defeated Mexican army in 1848. |
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| First person to compile a dictionary of the American language |
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| Neoclassical Architecture |
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| Produced in the mid-18th century. Exhibits Greek and Roman features like columns, pediments, and the triangle shape structure above the columns. |
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| First author to sell a lot of books. Gathered a group of writers called the "Knicks" He said there's no way anyone could write books better than them, which gave them a sense of pride. In his books, he made up a fictional city named Gotham and he's also known for writing about Christmas. Also, wrote "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" & "Rip van Winkle" |
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| Also a Transcendentalists. Wrote the Scarlet Letter. Thought evil and sin should gotten rid of. Jails, prisons, and societies make things worse. He said the more we create laws, the further we get from the truth. |
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| Writer that wrote about tales of the West, The Last of the Mohicans and the Leather-stocking Tales. Mainly wrote adventure stories on seas. |
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| Transcendentalists that thought machines our controlling lives and furthering away from nature. Felt we needed to go back to nature and small communities. Believed in Self-reliance. |
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| Wrote a book called Walden's Pond. Believed in refusing to obey the law and pay taxes. Got thrown in jail for refusing, one of his relatives paid the tax, which made him angrier. Also wrote a book called civil obedience and inspired Gandhi and Martin Luther King to use non-violence. |
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| Called the Transcendentalists "Frogpondonians" Wrote the Raven and the Tell-Tale Heart. One of the First authors to market his books and make money. Known for stories of macabre - Death, spirits, Halloween, and skeletons. Also, developed mystery stores. |
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| First group of American landscape painters. Painted different views of the Hudson River Valley. Inspiring as if you could see God through the sky. |
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Inspired by Charles Finney's perfect world ideas.
Wrote about getting better treatment for mentally ill people.
Argues that they're human beings and should be treated like it. |
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| Responsible for increasing public education. Says everyone should have access to education in a democracy and the democracy wont work without education. Also, the economy will suffer. He was able to get poorer people access and made sure all the schools were equal. |
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| Movement wanting people to stop drinking. Susan believes that its hurting our society and makes people crazy. Men are abusing their children at home. Women have no power on the amount of money being spent on whiskey by their husbands. |
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| Very active in the anti-slavery movement. Tried to get rid of slavery. At a meeting in London she was forced to speak behind a curtain because the men said they're not allowed to speak in public. When they got back from the meeting, they meet at Seneca Falls and write the declaration of sentiments. Similar to the declaration of independence but its declared men and women are equal in the sentiments. Also, wrote a list of grievances against men. "First wave of Feminism" |
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| Joined with Elizabeth in the meeting that took place in London and helped write the declaration of sentiments. Also wanted to get rid of slavery. |
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| Where the group of Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott met to discuss and write the declaration of sentiments. Declared men and women equal. |
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| Dropped her slave name and took this name, Sojourner Truth. Works a lot with the women's rights movement and against slavery. Wrote a speech called "aint i a woman," questioning her audience. She is known to be a very excellent speaker and goes all around the country speaking about rights of both black and women. |
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| Pushes for women's rights. WOrks with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Her main thing is the Temperance Movement. Fights hard for getting rid of whiskey and people drinking. |
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Oneida- A religious community moves here. Experimenting with complex marriages;open marriage.
New Harmony- An attempt to create a perfect society and not allowed to have children. Opposite from Oneida. |
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| First leader of the Mormons, approached by an angel who gave him golden tablets. "Lost them" so he has to transcribe them and created Mormonism. believed having more than one wife to service God. Christians become unhappy and persecute them. Goes to Illinois with his people where a mob attacks and murders him. |
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| Takes over after Joseph gets murdered and goes to Salt Lake City. They said they couldn't travel anymore so they set up their own community. They were able to irrigate and farm in the middle of the desert. |
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| Refers to people becoming very religious and focusing more on God, religion, and doing the right thing. |
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| One of the most famous preachers. Believes in perfectionism and says we shouldn't have to wait till heaven to live in a perfect world. We should try to create one now. |
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| One major philosophy was that is was good for the economy and slaves because they're not really smart enough to take care of themselves. Slavery is immorally wrong, against God, and a sin. It's saying Slavery is evil but its necessary. |
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| Slavery is being abolished in Britain and France. Pirate Ships start sneaking slaves into the US. Britain gets mad because we wont do anything about it. |
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| Published by John C. Calhoun. Argued that states could refuse to enforce unconstitutional laws. Protest against the Tariff of Abominations. |
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| Wrote newspaper called Liberator. Wanted to end slavery and make the slaves free. Fiery speaker, believed in what he was saying and didn't care what other people thought. Burned a copy of the constitution and protested, saying that the constitution is partly to blame for the system. He said nothing should come before ending slavery. |
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| Angelina and Elizabeth, daughters of a slave owner in South Carolina. They've seen what slaves go through and they hate it. They run away to the North and become Quakers, meaning very anti-slavery |
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| Free black tailor in the North. Wrote an appeal to the color citizens of the world. It said the time for waiting is over and if white people don't start doing something about slavery then they're asking for the consequences. Bounty on people who made these writings. You could be killed in the South if you were caught with one of these writings. He started sewing the writings into jackets to spread them around. |
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| Inspired by William Lloyd Garrison. As a slave, his mistress was teaching him how to read or write, which was not allowed. Her husband finds out but its too late, Frederick has already learned it. He eventually moves out and gets involved in the end of slavery in England. He starts making speeches and wrote a famous book called, "slave narrative." Published a newspaper called, "The North Star." |
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