American History Chapter 6 Flashcards

The practice of giving people government jobs on the basis of party loyalty

A nomination system in which the members of the party who are serving in Congress choose the party's candidate.

<p>A tariff passed by Congress in 1828 that favored manufacturing in the North and was hated by the South.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To formally withdraw from the union.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A leading attorney who argued many famous cases in the Supreme Court; Congressman from New Hampshire and senator representing Massachusetts.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A law that gave the federal government the right to forcibly collect tariffs from southern states.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>(1830) A congressional act that authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>(1838-39) An 800-mile forced march made by the Cherokee from their homeland in Georgia to Indian Territory.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A depression that resulted in the closure of many banks and record unemployment levels.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hostility toward foreigners caused by fear.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An anti-immigrant political movement of the 1840s and 1850s, also known as the American Party.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A 19th-century religious movement emphasizing individual responsibility for seeking salvation and the need for personal and social improvement.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An important preacher in the revivalist movement.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A religious leader who founded the Mormon Church in 1830.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An ideal society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A movement that advocated feeling over reason, inner spirituality over external rules, the individual above society, and nature over environments created by humans.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A philosophical movement that urged people to transcend their minds and embrace the beauty of the universe.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A person responsible for creating homes for the mentally ill and reforming the prison system in the U.S.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader, and a leader of the Second Great Awakening.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An aid organization set up by residents of a community to help its immigrants.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Moderation in the consumption of alcohol.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A correctional institution based on the concept that inmates could change their criminality through reflection and penitence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An American educator who was the first secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A founder and leader of the American woman suffrage movement from 1848.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An 1848 woman's rights meeting at which the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments was presented.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A society that thought slavery was bad and aimed to buy land in Africa for free blacks to relocate to; one colony became Liberia.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The movement to end slavery.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A leading New England abolitionist and editor of The Liberator, who advocated for immediate emancipation of all black slaves.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The freeing of all enslaved people.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>(1833-1870) An abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison, advocating for the immediate abolition of slavery.</p> Signup and view all the answers