Unit 5 American History

Utopian Communities

Groups of people that tried to form the perfect society

American Romanticism

Ideas about simple life and nature that inspired American painters and writers in the early - mid 1800's

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Aurhor of the "Scarlet Letter"

Edgar Allen Poe

famous American Poet wrote " the raven"

Herman Melville

Author of "Moby Dick"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wrote popular story poems in the 1800's such as " The midnight ride of Paul Revere"

Second Awakening

Second Christian Renewal movement of the late 1790's and early 1800's

Temperence Movement

Urged people to use self discipline to stop drinking hard liquor.

Dorthea Dix

Urged that mentally ill people be treated not as criminals but in hospitals.

Horace Mann

Leader of the fcommon school movement

Common School Movement

The idea that all children should be taught in a common place irregardless of their background.

Abolition

The movement to completely get rid of slavery

William Lloyd garrison

Publisher of the Liberator a Newspaper that promoted abolition of slavery

Angelina and Sarah Grimk'e

two sisters that promoted abolition of slavery

Fredrick Douglass

Escaped slave that spke out against slavery in his newspaper the North Star.

Sojourner Truth

Former slave that claimed that God had called her to travel and preach the truth about slavery

Sarah Grimke

urged that women be given equal educational opportunities

Harriet Tubman

Leader of the Underground railroad

Underground railroad

A series of safe houses and a trail where slaves escaped from the South to the North

Seneca Falls Convention

First public meeting about womens rights in America

Lucretia Mott/Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Womens rights leaders/ organized the Senaca Falls Convention

Susan B. Anthony

Did much to turn the womens rights movement into a political movement

Andrew Jackson

President of the common man believed in a strong central government.

States Righters

Believed that the states were more powerful than the Federal government since the sttes created the federal government and had the right to choose not to obey laws of the federal government

Henry Clay

The Great Compromiser Helped the settle the questions of Missouri and was the creator of the Compromise of 1850 that admitted the state of California into the Country as a free state.

Jacksonians

Felt like Jackson had been cheated out of the election of 1824 and felt that the election of 1828 , won by Jackson, a victory for the common man.

John C. Calhoun

Vice President under Jackson resigned because he believed in States Rights.

Stephen F. Austin

Founder of the Old 300 in Texas. Pushed for the independence of Texas from Mexico.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Writer of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" a book that depicted the creulty of slavery . Reading convinced many Northeners that slavery must be aboloshed.

Know Nothings

Anti Immigaration Party.

Whigs

Party that supported not enfoorcing the fugitive slave act

Francis Cabot Lowell

Started a system in whic yung girls worked in his factory. The young ladies borded and ate in mill bording houses.

Francis Grandison Finney

One of the most important leaders of the Second Great Awakening - A renewed interest in Religion