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shay's rebellion |
the courts took away farms and homes and livestock if theu were unable to pau their debts. armed farmers led by daniel shay shut down the courts |
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james madison |
designed the virginia plan which advocated a national union that was both strong and republican. |
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federalism |
division of power between the states and the nation. |
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judicial review |
the power to decide the constiutionality of federal law |
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impressment |
the bristish seized sailors from us ships to serve in the royal navy, a practice known as impressment |
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Monroe doctrine |
Monroe and adams announced a doctrine declaring that european monarchies had no business meddling with american republics |
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andrew Jackson |
A sumbol of expanding democracy, He was known as a down-to-earth common man and a "war hero" which is why he was so well liked. |
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john c calhoun |
Jackson's vice president |
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panic of 1837 |
at that time the nation's worst economic depression |
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Indian removal act |
this law sought to negotiate the peaceful exchange of Indian lands in the south for new lands in Indian Territory. |
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Temperance movement |
campaign to curb alcohol use |
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Horace Mann |
the most influential leader of the public school movement |
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Joseph smith |
Organized the church of latter day saints in 1830. Smith and his followers later became known as mormons |
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Dorothea Dix |
Campaigned for better treatment of people with mental illnesses |
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Charles grandison finney |
one of the most influential revivalists |
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nat turner |
Led the best known slave revolt |
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William Lloyd Garrison |
Boston printer who wrote the Liberator |
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Henry david Thoreau |
Writer and philosopher who spent a night in jail and refused to pay a tax that supported slavery |
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
A feminist quaker who had helped found the American Anti-slavery society |
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Susan b. Anthony |
Involved with the abolitionist and temperance movement that inspired her to work for equal rights for women |
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Alamo |
A former mission that santa ana attacked |
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James k Polk |
A democrat from tennessee who was elected president in 1844 |
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Gadsen Purchase |
The us bought land from mexico and planned to build a railroad across the continent |
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Treaty of guadalupe hidalgo |
America won New Mexico and california |
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Wilmot Proviso |
"Neither slavery noe involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any" lands |
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Personal liberty laws |
this was in defiance of thefugitive slave act that forced citizens to turn in any fugitive slaves they found |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Published Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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John Brown |
an abolitionist who moved his family several times in pursuit of opportunities to confront slavery |
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Kansas - Nebraska Act |
kansas would organize as a slave state and nebraska would organize as a free state |
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Bleeding Kansas |
violent outbreaks occured in kansas |