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| Thomas Gallaudet | established school for the deaf |
| The public asylum movement | 1823-1860, beginning of when america started to realize people fought about people in prison |
| Dorthea Dix | found mentally ill people were locked up with criminals. she committed her life to improve their life. |
| Samuel Howe | first school for blind |
| Public school movement in U.S. | Horace Mann Mass. began movement everyone had right to go to school. 1840 almost all states could go to school. |
| women movement | women did not vote, they could not pursue their goals. some of the people that rebelled against the movement were women. |
| 1848-Sinca falls n.y. | Susan b anthony, catherine chapman |
| election of 1836 | jackson had a chance to run for president for the 3rd time but didn't due to washington, not running 3 times in a row.martin van buren runs. whigs run 3 people to try to beat van buren, but it didn't work, marin van buren became president |
| panic of 1937 | it was a bad economic time caused by jackson but blamed on van buren. anyone could have won the election of 1837 do to the panic |
| election of 1840 | called hard cider and log cabin. whig party is william henry harrison. tipacanoe and taylor too. the founding fathers didn't want popular people as a president. clay wanted to run for the party but they didn't want him to run. he hasn't won any elections. harrison wins, clay would now be in charge. |
| henry clays victories | runs 4 times for president. controls harrison, after 2 months of being the president harrison dies. John taylor which was vice president becomes president, john taylor doesn't like clay |
| the great awakening | 1823 the reform period, upstate new york=fires everywhere, charles finney many people followed him, thought lots of peole were evangelist. |
| baptist and methodist | southern states=more than half of the population were either baptist and methodist by the beginning of the war. |
| mormons | church of jesus christ of later day saints, from middle east to the americas, everyone that goes to heaven has to be baptised even if they are already dead, you can be baptised even if you are dead at the temple. |
| transcendentalists | argued for a simple life, rejected for one striving wealth, they looked for truth from inside, truth=important values, big truths such as why do you live?, looking for a traditional way. not in the church, finds truth for themselves, anti slavery=why is it right for one man to own another man, no its not right |
| ralph waldo emerson | author of poetry essays, one of the leading scholars |
| henry david thoreau | author of the book the walden, allowed himself to be thrown in jail because he wouldn't pay his taxes, he said he would not pay taxes while any war was going on. one of the first people to use cilil disobedient |
| communal experience | all of the efforts were to create a perfect community, most involve community property, everything is shared everyone and everything are equal, the shakers, they died out they didn't believe in having sex, therefore they couldnt reproduce, new harmony few of the non religion group, oneida community-sexual freedom was a new thing didn't become popular until 1960, in 1848 they shared everythin even sexual partners |
| worcester vs. georgia | they go before a supreme court, questions can geogia enforce laws in indian territory? no, that is ruling of case (chief Justice= john marshall) jackson refuses to enforce law, geogia asks indiansto leave because of land speculation, us owns the indians, then cherokees are forced to move |
| the trail of tears | 1838 indians were forced out of georgia in the winter, 4,000 indians died on the way to oklahoma. |
| cherokee indians try to be civilized | the indians tried not to be removed, they tried to be like the white men and fit in, they lived they way of a white man, they farmed, they used horses and had stores |
| sequoia | created the cherokee alphabet and newspapers so fellow indians could read them. |
| nullification acts | 1832 south carolina didn't want to collect tariffs, jackson goes to the congress to get a bill called an enforce act, so they'll do it. jackson works on 2 plans, 1. the force act. it gave jackson the right to use force against south carolina.2. to ask congress to make new tariffs. congress changed the tariff law and now the crisis is over |
| jackson on anti slavery | the northern states starts to send the south info. by mail, which say south states are wrong for having slaves, argument:it can cause violence and uproar, and upset the people. then post office can not send anymore antislavery mail |
| the whig party | 2 parties, democrats (Jackson) and whigs. (clay/anti jackson), the whigs followed clay out and then started own party. whig came from Britains people that didnt like the king were called whigs, american people think of jackson as a king of the u.s. and the people that didn't like him called themselves the whigs. the people that followe jackson were called the democrats. |
| the whig ideas | american system build roads, national banks, tariffs |
| democrats | called bank of u.s. jackson no clay, 1836 election bank issue losses election. people that don't like jackson shut down banks |
| specie circular | jackson-land boom in western u.s. during jackson's presidency. specie were notes money issued by a bank. people were borrowing money to buy land, jackson then said no more specie to buy land that all land purchases were to be made in gold: value of money drops, one suffers inflation. species circular, causes a lot of people to go broke, and a lot of inflation |
| national bank | the bank of the united states, clay made the bank of 1842 but people voted jackson but jackson managed to eliminate the bank. |
| democratic ideas | for local rule, limited government, free trade. |
