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Democracy and Discrimination Unit Study Guide and Terms & People to Know

Democracy                               Voting restrictions, before and after Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson                       The common man

Jacksonian Democracy The spoils system

Rotation in office                       Jackson’s bank veto

Nationalism                              Revolutions of 1848 (causes, results, nations involved)

Congress of Vienna                  Principle of legitimacy

Political spectrum                      Conservatism

Status quo                                Principle of intervention

Nation                                      Liberal

Radical                         Moderate

Reactionary                              Suffrage

Republic                                   Monroe Doctrine

Assimilation                              Cherokee

Indian Removal Act of 1830     5 Civilized Tribes

Non-violent resistance  Treaty of New Echota

Trail of Tears                            “American Progress”

Manifest Destiny                       Annexation of Texas

James K. Polk                          Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

Mexican-American War           Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

California settlement                  Gold Rush (results, impact)

Oregon Trail                             Donner Party

2nd Great Awakening                Charles Grandison Finney

Education Reform                     Horace Mann

Mormonism                              Joseph Smith

Dorothea Dix                            Reforming Institutions (prisons, mental hospitals)

Temperance                             Lyman Beecher

Trancendentalism                      Women’s Christian Temperance Union

Henry David Thoreau               Ralph Waldo Emerson

Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Women’s rights leaders Abolitionists (who they were, what they stood for)

Seneca Falls Convention           Cult of domesticity

Declaration of Sentiments          Cult of Domesticity

 

Maps:             Oregon Trail, European map of revolutions of 1848

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