AP US History vocabulary list: Difference between revisions

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== Antebellum period ==
== Antebellum period ==
"Antebellum" means "before war", i.e. period before or leading up to the Civil War
"Antebellum" means "before war", i.e. period before or leading up to the Civil War
 
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=== Antebellum people ===
=== Antebellum people ===
* John Quincy Adams
* John Quincy Adams
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=== Jacksonian period ===
=== Jacksonian period ===
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* Bank War
* Bank War
* Corrupt Bargain
* Corrupt Bargain
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* Sojourner Truth
* Sojourner Truth
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Theodore Weld|early abolitionist who with the Grimke sisters investigated and published on the horrible conditions of slaves and their treatment; Weld helped organize the American Anti-Slavery Society}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Theodore Weld|early abolitionist who with the Grimke sisters investigated and published on the horrible conditions of slaves and their treatment; Weld helped organize the American Anti-Slavery Society}}</ul></li>


=== Social reform ===
=== Social reform ===
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* Note that certain Christian ideology deeply influenced these movements, as well as abolition
* Note that certain Christian ideology deeply influenced these movements, as well as abolition
* See also section above on Slavery  
* See also section above on Slavery  
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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:cult of domesticity|a term used by historians to describe changes in the role and ideals of women in families in the 19th century; the "true woman" (historians' term, not from the period) was the center of the family: wife and mother dedicated to family, purity, religious piety, and submission to her husband; note that in this view at the time, women were not to speak publicly about politics much less agitate for the vote (see "separate sphere"; over the 19th century, middle class white women (not farmers) began to have fewer children (indicating advances in medicine and health care), which allowed them more personal time which could be spent on outside activities such as church, charities, clubs, etc.}}</ul></li>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:cult of domesticity|a term used by historians to describe changes in the role and ideals of women in families in the 19th century; the "true woman" (historians' term, not from the period) was the center of the family: wife and mother dedicated to family, purity, religious piety, and submission to her husband; note that in this view at the time, women were not to speak publicly about politics much less agitate for the vote (see "separate sphere"; over the 19th century, middle class white women (not farmers) began to have fewer children (indicating advances in medicine and health care), which allowed them more personal time which could be spent on outside activities such as church, charities, clubs, etc.}}</ul></li>
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=== Women's rights advocates ===  
=== Women's rights advocates ===  
* Elizabeth Cady Stanton
* Elizabeth Cady Stanton


=== Transcendentalism/ Second Great Awakening ===
=== Transcendentalism/ Second Great Awakening ===
* Adventist/ Adventism| religious movement started in the 1830s by a Baptist preacher (William Miller) who claimed that Christ's Second Coming would occur in 1843 or 1844; the movement is  reflective of the Second Great Awakening and its democratization of religious belief
* Adventist/ Adventism| religious movement started in the 1830s by a Baptist preacher (William Miller) who claimed that Christ's Second Coming would occur in 1843 or 1844; the movement is  reflective of the Second Great Awakening and its democratization of religious belief
* Hudson Valley artistic movement
* Hudson Valley artistic movement
* Naturalism
* Naturalism