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History 11 Ch 3
Question | Answer |
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Spoils System | Practice of giving jobs to your friends who helped you get elected. Put many unqualified people into office. Andrew Jackson |
Republican Virtues | Women were asked to teach honesty, discipline, virtue, etc. in school to children |
Underground Railroad | created in response to slavery, series of escape routes from the south for runaway slaves. Harriet Tubman was a famous conductor |
Temperance Movement | Movement to eliminate alcohol consumption |
Suffrage | Grew out of the women’s rights movement. Suffrage was the demand for the right to vote |
Secessionist | Someone who chooses to leave a group. The Confederates were secessionists |
States’ Rights | One of the roots of sectionalism, states rights is the belief that states should have more power then the federal government |
Trail of Tears | Forced march of the Cherokee Indians out of the south. Many died on the journey |
Strike | Refusal to work |
Abolitionist Movement | People opposed to slavery. Some wrote books(Harriet Beecher Stowe) Others spoke out(Frederick Douglas) and some used violence(John Brown) |
Nativism | Opposed to immigration. Favored American(native) born to foreigners. Favored American purity |
Free Enterprise | Economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of goods |
American Women | Played an active role in reform movements. Also expected to teach republican virtues |
Utopian Communities | Small society dedicated to developing perfect societies. Experiment that failed in most situations falling to ills of laziness and selfishness |
Reform Movements | Temperance, women’s rights, education, abolition to name a few |
Tensions between the North and South | Slavery was the largest issue that caused tension |
Manifest Destiny | Belief that the US would eventually stretch across the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific |
Lincoln Douglas Debates | Slavery was the big issue and whether it would spread, Lincoln was against the spread of slavery, Douglas was in favor of popular sovereignty or allowing voters to decide |
Fort Sumter | When the Confederacy(South) fired on Fort Sumter the Civil War started |
Eli Whitney | Invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts. Cotton gin allowed more cotton to be harvested and interchangeable parts allowed for faster production of guns(goods) |
Steam Power and Canal Building | allowed farmers to ship their goods to people around the country |
Monroe Doctrine | Policy by the United States that the western hemisphere is off limits to European colonization |
Transcendentalists | wanted people to get involved in reforming society and breaking with traditional thought |
Fugitive Slave Act | Forced all Americans to help catch runaway slaves |
Kansas Nebraska Act | Allowed people of Kansas and Nebraska to decide on the slavery issue by voting(Popular sovereignty) |