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| Vice president and a resident of South Carolina |
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| Authorized the president to use the military to enforce acts of Congress. |
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| Crisis in which many banks and buisnesses failed shortly after Van Buren took office. |
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| State right to declare federal law null |
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| Creator of the 'Book of Mormon' |
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| Hostility towards foreigners |
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| Urged people to transcend |
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| Opened first institution for higher education for women |
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| Created Massachussets State Board of Education |
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| Moderation in alchohol consumption |
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| Women antislavery movement |
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| Female antislavery movement member |
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| The belief that slavery should be ended immediately |
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| The gradual transition out of slavery |
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| Enslaved preacher caused an uprising that killed over fifty virginians. |
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| The most influential transcendentalist was Henry David Thoreau |
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| The Know-Nothings pledged never to vote for a Catholic and pushed for laws banning immigrants and Catholics from holding office |
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| An important development of early 1800s was the rise of the mass newspaper. |
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| Perhaps most famous poet of the day was Walt Whitman, who wrote simple, personal, deeply emotional poetry. |
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| The religous group known as the Shakers established small utopian communities from Maine to Kentucky. |
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| The first well-known advocate of abolition was a free African-American from North Carolina named David Walker. |
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| The American Colonization Society acquired land in West Africa and established a colony that eventually became the country of Liberia. |
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| The New England Antislavery Society and the American Antislavery Society were founded by Lucretia Mott. |
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| Emancipation meant that slavery would continue in all the southern states but could not be instituted in the northern states. |
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| Abolitionism drew its strength from the Second Great Awakening with its focus on sin and repetance, because abolitionists thought slavery an enormous evil of which the country needed to repent. |
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| What was Andrew Jackson's opinion on the Bank of America and what did her do about the bank? |
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| Prevented the state bank from loaning too much |
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| The Jacksonians replaced the caucus system with what? |
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| National Nominating Convention |
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| In his inagural address, President Jackson declared his intervention to do what to all Native Americans? |
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| Move them to the Great Plains |
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| What was the spoils system. And who was the first president to use it? |
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| Appointing officials based on party loyalty, John Quincy Adams. |
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| Many South Carolinians threatened to secede, or withdraw, from the Union when Congress levied what critics called the what? |
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| Advocated feeling over reason |
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| Explain in detail the Second Great Awakening? |
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| The second overall religous revival |
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| What country did the largest wave of immigrants come from, how many? |
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| Between 1815 and 1860, the US experienced a massive influx of what? |
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| The increase in the number of voters in the 1820s and 1830s and the arrival of millions of new immigrants convinced many people of the need for what? |
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| What or who did Lyman Beecher, a prominent minister, insist you should take charge of building a better society in a nation? |
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| By the mid-1800s, especially in the northeastern states, the development of factories and other work centers seperated the workplace from? |
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| The spirit reform prompted Americans to consider ways to improve what? |
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| Who was William Llyod Garrison? |
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| Publisher of antislavery paper |
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| What was the American Colonization Society? |
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| Society focused on colonizing different areas |
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| In 1863 all abolitionists petitions were shelved without debate because, under Southern pressure, the House of Representatives passed what? |
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| Who was Frederick Douglass? |
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| Freed slave, writer abolitionist |
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| Who was Reverend Elijah P. Lovejoy? |
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| Reverend killed while trying to protect a printing press from the mob. |
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