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| Utopian Communities | 1840s societies attempting to remake the world in a more perfect manner, i.e Brook Farm and Oneida Community |
| Bleeding Kansas | 1854 Fight over vote to decide Free/Slave state status |
| German / Irish Immigration | 1830s-60s wave of Immigrants, sparked "Know-Nothing" party. |
| Gold Rush | 1849 Movement of people to California in search of quick riches |
| Indian Removal Act | 1830 Jackson policy to relocate Cherokee in GA to Indian territories |
| Mexican American War | 1846-48 War for territorial expansion in the South West |
| Seneca Falls Convention | 1848 Women's Suffrage Movement led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott |
| South Carolina Exposition and Protest | 1828 John C. Calhoun protest of the "Tariff of Abominations" |
| South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification | 1832 Ordinance declaring Tariffs null and void within South Carolina |
| Trail of Tears | 1838 Forced march of Cherokees to Indian Territory |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | 1852 Work of literature depicting the horrors of Slavery |
| American Anti-Slavery Society | 1833-70 Abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison |
| Susan B. Anthony | Women's suffrage advocate founded with Elizabeth Cady Stanton the National Women's Suffrage Association |
| Anti-Masonic Party | 1828-38 Third political party aimed at counteracting perceived threat of "occult" group US interests |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | 1849 receives her medical degrees; in 1868 founds first women's medical college |
| John Brown | Fought in Bleeding Kansas; in 1859 seizes the armory at Harper's Ferry in a failed attempt to spark a slave uprising |
| James Buchanan | Democrat, 15th President of US, fails to act to prevent coming civil war |
| Emerson and Thoreau | Transcendentalists, writers, philosophers, Utopians, residents of Brook Farm, Walden Pond |
| Millard Filmore | Whig, 13th President, assumes presidency on death of Zachary Taylor. Later runs as a member of "Know-Nothing" party |
| Free Soil Party | 1848-1852, Abolitionist 3rd party. |
| William Henry Harrison | 9th President, shortest serving, oldest (till Reagan), Whig, victor at Tippecanoe |
| Andrew Jackson | Democrat, 7th President, loser to Quincy Adams in 1828, Victor in 1832-36. Spoils system. Kills Bank. Removes Cherokees. Populist |
| Know Nothing Party | 1845-60, Anti-immigrant, anti-catholic 3rd party |
| Abraham Lincoln | Republican 16th President, Great Emancipator |
| Horace Mann | 1830s Educational Reformer, founder of "normal schools" |
| Mormon Church | Founded 1830s by Joseph Smith, moved Salt Lake Valley under Brigham Young in 1840s, persecuted Christian sect |
| Franklin Pierce | Democrat, 14th President during Kansas-Nebraska debate |
| James Polk | Democrat, 11th President, solves Oregon border dispute, engages in Mexican-American War and Gasden Purchase |
| Republican Party | Founded in 1854 as an anti-slavery expansion party |
| Shakers | Protestant Religious sect founded in 1747, formed communal utopian groups with shared work and rewards, believed in celibacy |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Women's Rights activist and writer, organizes Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 |
| Zachary Taylor | Whig, 12th President. Former General from Mexican-American War. Dies in office |
| Temperance Societies | Anti-alcohol groups also involved in Abolitionist and Women's rights |
| Nat Turner | Leader of 1831 Slave Revolt in Virginia |
| Martin Van Buren | Democrat, 8th President, former Vice-President of Jackson continues Jacksonian policies |
| Whig Party | 1833-56 Opposition party to Jackson's Democrats, favored economic protectionism, eventually is absorbed by the Republican Party |
| Cherokee Nation v Georgia | 1831 finding the Cherokees were a "dominated independent nation" and therefore outside of the limits of the Supreme Court's original jurisdiction |
| Worcester v. Georgia | 1832 finding that States no authority to regulate Indian lands, only congress could do that. Ruling ignored by Georgia and not enforced by Jackson |
| Compromise of 1850 | CA admitted as free state, slave trade was abolished in D.C., New Mexico and Utah allowed to vote on slavery, Fugitive Slave Act passed, Texas slave, but gave up some western land |
| Compromise Tariff | 1833 Solution proposed by Henry Clay to end Nullification crisis, gradually eliminated the Tariff of Abominations |
| Fugitive Slave Act | Part of 1850 Compromise, made aiding runaway slaves a crime and aided in their return to masters |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | 1854 repeal of Missouri Compromise, allowed Kansas and Nebraska to vote on Free / Slave |
| Oregon Territory | 1848-59 Destination for western emigration. Joined Union as free state in 1859 |
| Oregon Treaty | 1846 treaty with Britain finalizing borders of Oregon, enabled formation of Oregon Territory |
| Ostend Manifesto | 1854 secret attempt to acquire Cuba from Spain |
| Tariff of Abominations | 1828 High Tariff on European goods, sparked the Nullification crisis |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | 1848 Treaty ending the Mexican-American War granting US control of much of SW US. |
| Webster-Ashburton Treaty | 1842 treaty with Canada settling border of Maine and Great Lakes region |
| Wilmot Proviso | 1846 Bill forbidding slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico. Never passed. |
| Manifest Destiny | The belief that it was obvious (manifest) that the US's fate (destiny) was to control the entire region from the Atlantic to the Pacific |
