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Grimke sisters |
Abolitionists who extended desire of African-American freedom to women suffrage |
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Seneca Falls (New York) conference of 1848 |
A convention primarily about women's suffrage. The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions was drafted here in 1848. |
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Many women participants of the Seneca falls conference were ... |
Quakers |
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women among the leaders of the nineteenth-century feminist movement
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-Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
-Susan B. Anthony. -Dorothea Dix. -Lucy Stone |
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Which territories gave women limited voting rights? |
Wyoming (1869) Utah (1870) Done to boost population for potential statehood |
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New Harmony,Indiana |
-Commune -Founded by Robert Owen (1825) -Idealized equality -Anti-industrial (wanted to return to "agrarian simplicity) -FAILED |
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Brook Farm Mass (1841) |
-"Transcendental" experiment -FAILED by 1847 -Nathaniel Hawthorne's disillusionment evident in the Blithe-dale Romance |
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Shakers |
-Religious group founded by "Mother" Ann Lee (1774) -Marriage prohibited -Men + Women lived in separate buildings -Women Leaders "Eldresses" -Name "Shakers" derived from religious dance |
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1st State to abolish Slavery by amending its constitution |
Massachusetts |
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Enacted gradual emancipation in 1780 |
Pennsylvania |
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Northwest ordinance of 1787 |
forbids slavery in Northwest territories (Fed Legislation) |
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Major Figures in Abolitionist Movement |
-William Lloyd Garrison -Elijah Lovejoy -Frederick Douglass -Sojourner Truth -Harriet Tubman |
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William Lloyd Garrison |
-Begins publishing Abolitionist Newspaper Liberator in 1831 |
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Elijah Lovejoy |
-Shot and killed by pro-slavery mob (1837) |
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Frederick Douglas
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-Former Slave
-Founded anti-slavery newspaper and wrote his autobiography -Begins publishing North Star Abolitionist Newspaper |
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Sojourner Truth |
Black Female Abolitionist Women's Rights Advocate |
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Harriet Tubman |
-Nicknamed Black Moses -Helped assist about 300 slaves to freedom through Underground Railroad |
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Spanish California |
-1st Colonization by Spain in California -1st Mission established in San Diego in 1769 by Father Junipero Serra -21 Spanish Catholic Missions established by Franciscans |
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Missions were connected by |
"El Camino Real" |
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Missions were established to... |
convert Indians and teach them Spanish Culture |
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Presidios were established as.. |
-Military forts -4 in Alta CA - San Diego, Santa Barbara, Monterrey, San Francisco |
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Established as non-mission towns |
Pueblos -San Jose was 1st in 1777 |
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Mexican California |
-Mexican Revolution of 1821 ended Spain's control |
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Secularization of Missions |
-Missions became Parish churches, Sold to mexican ranchers or abandoned -San Miguel was last to be secularized |
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Americans + other foreigners allowed to settle in California under 3 conditions |
1. Become Mexican citizens 2. Accept Roman Catholic faith 3. Purchase Land Grant |
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General Santa Anna |
-becomes president in 1834 -opposed Americans in Texas |
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War for Texas Independence |
-Many Texans + Tejanos desire independent Texas nation |
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Where did Texans believe to be the boundary line?
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Rio Grande River
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Where did Mexicans believe to be the boundary line?
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Nueces River
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The Alamo |
-Santa Anna captures San Antonio city at "Battle of the Alamo" -William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett die in fight |
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Goliad Massacre |
Santa Anna shot 350 Texans who had surrendered |
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Battle of San Jancito |
Sam Houston's Texas army defeats Santa Anna -Santa Anna forced to sign treaty granting Texas Independence |
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Henry Clay |
made a bill in Compromise of 1850 that made Cali a free state in union, warned that Manifest Destiny would re start slavery issue
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Manifest Destiny
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Ideology that reflected growing pride of American nationalism and the idealistic vision of social perfection.
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Nueces River
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Debate over the boundary between Texas and Mexico. Texas said Rio Grande and Mexico said Nueces River. Polk sent a small army to protect against Mexicans.
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Due to debates and strong disagreement over Texas and Mexico boundary line Polk...
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sent a small army to protect against Mexicans.
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Zachary Taylor
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no political experience but elected for Whigs due to being a Mexican War hero
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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Nicholas Trist negotiated settlement with Mexico in 1848. Mexico ceded California & New Mexico to US and agreed on Rio Grande as the boundary.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, advocated for women's rights
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Douglas agreed to divide area into Nebraska and Kansas and became a law in May 1854.
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What effect did the Kansas- Nebraska Act have?
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Produced immediate, sweeping, and ominous political consequences: destroyed Whigs, divided northern Democrats
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What political party did the Kansas-Nebraska controversy create?
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Republican Party.
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As a result of the intense conflicts between pro-slavery and free-state settlers in Kansas, the territory earned the nickname
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Bleeding Kansas
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John Brown
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Abolitionists who moved to Kansas to make it a free state. Gathered 6 followers and in one night murdered pro-slavery settlers.
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Compromise of 1850 |
1. Admit California as a free state 2.Abolition of slave trade in Washington D.C (not slavery) 3. Create territories in Utah & New Mexico & let people in those territories decide on slavery 4.Stiff fugitive Slave Law - Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Toms Cabin written in opposition
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Who led the migration of 12,000 Mormons from Illinois to what would become Salt Lake City, Utah?
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Brigham Young
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Oneida "perfectionists"
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One of the most successful Utopian societies of the time period. Believed that tasks should be shared throughout the community, and every member of the community was married to everyone else in it
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Abolitionists successfully funded the legal battle & repatriation of Africans who seized the ...
(Spanish slave ship) |
Amistad
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