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  • What does a transcendentalist believe?
    People can transcend or overcome their minds and let their souls reach out to embrace the beauty of the universe
  • The Second Great Awakening focused mainly on what?
    salvation
  • Why did German immigrants come to the U.S.?
    there was a revolution in Germany that created an atmosphere of violence
  • This reformer's efforts brought reforms for the mentally ill
    Dorothea Dix
  • Who is the transcendentalist who wrote Walden?
    Henry David Thoreau
  • This religious group rejected Christ as the son of God and believed that God was a unity, not a trinity
    Unitarians
  • Who was the poorer immigrant: the Irish or German?
    the Irish (became poor over time during British rule; Germans fled Germany very quickly)
  • How did Southerners view abolition as an attack on their way of life?
    They believed it was the key to the economy in the South
  • What was the North's opinion of slavery in this time period?
    The North held various views, but many did not support abolition
  • At the beginning of his presidency, this president made it clear what his Indian policy was. Who was it and what was his policy?
    Andrew Jackson, move all Native Americans to the Great Plains
  • This religious group believed that God intends to save everyone from hell
    Universalists
  • What is the term called for withdrawing from the Union?
    seceed
  • What was the idea of "true womanhood"?
    women should be in the home to raise children who had good characters and who would be good citizens
  • What was the viewpoint of Abolitionists toward compensating former slaveholders?
    They believed it was the key to the economy in the South
  • What is the name of the technology that helped promote readership of magazines?
    The Penny Press
  • Why did Irish immigrants come to the U.S.?
    The Potato Famine
  • Which state threatened to seceed because of tariffs?
    South Carolina
  • What is the term for party members choosing of presidential candidates?
    caucus system
  • What was the viewpoint of Abolitionists toward compensating former slaveholders?
    They should not be compensated
  • What was a utopian community?
    A place where people could live away from the corruption of society
  • Jackson hated the Second Bank of the U.S., but it actually helped to do what with the U.S. money supply?
    It helped keep the money supply stable (inflation low)
  • Who is the abolitionist who founded the American Anti-Slavery Society and published The Liberator?
    William Lloyd Garrison
  • Who wrote the popular novel, The Last of the Mohicans that romanticized Native Americans in this time period?
    James Fenimore Cooper
  • How did Jackson respond to the nullification crisis in South Carolina?
    He sent a warship to dock in the waters outside the border of South Carolina
  • Name one of the two women who organized the Seneca Falls Convention which was the beginning of the women's movement.
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
  • Who wrote the Tell-Tale Heart?
    Edgar Allan Poe
  • What did Jacksonians replace the caucus system of choosing presidential candidates with?
    national nominating convention
  • Why did Jackson support the spoils system?
    He thought it gave opportunities for people who were not wealthy to get government jobs
  • What was the idea of "gradualism"?
    It was an idea that slavery should be gradually stopped and that no new slaves should be brought into the country
  • What is the idea called that allows states to declare federal laws unconstitutional?
    nullification
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