APUSH Unit 2 (Reform Movts and Manifest Destiny)

Santa Anna

Mexican dictator who was in charge when war broke out between the Mexicans and Americans. He lost Texas to rebels, and was the leader of the armed forces during the war.

2nd Great Awakening

A religious revival in the United States. Showed growing social and regional differences in the US.

David Walker

He was a black abolitionist who called for the immediate emancipation of slaves. He wrote the "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World." It called for a bloody end to white supremacy. He believed that the only way to end slavery was for slaves to physically revolt.

Harriet Tubman

Former slave who helped slaves escape on the Underground Railroad

Spot Resolution

Resolution offered by Congressman Abraham Lincoln demanding to know the precise location where Mexicans had allegedly shed American blood on the "America" soil.

John Slidell

A diplomat sent by Polk to buy California, New Mexico, and Texas from the Mexicans. Mexico rejected his offer and Polk sent Taylor's army into Mexico

The Liberator

Anti-slavery newspaper written by William Lloyd Garrison; drew attention to abolition, both positive and negative

Sojourner Truth

former slave who became an abolitionist and women's rights activist - "Aint I a Woman"

Seneca Falls Convention

the first national women's rights convention at which the Declaration of Sentiments was written

Alamo

an abandoned mission near San Antonio that became an important battle site in the Texas Revolution

Sam Houston

Commander of the Texas army at the battle of San Jacinto; later elected president of the Republic of Texas

Nat Turner

Was a slave in Virginia who started a rebellion in 1831 believing he was receiving signs from God. Led to the passage of the Gag Law in Congress

Frederick Douglass

Escaped slave and great black abolitionist who fought to end slavery through political action

James K. Polk

American blood has been shed on American soil

American Colonization Society

Formed in 1817, it purchased a tract of land in Liberia and returned free Blacks to Africa.

Dorothea Dix

Activist who helped improve conditions for mental patients

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A prominent advocate of women's rights, she organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention with Lucretia Mott

Manifest Destiny

the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

Treaty that ended the Mexican War, granting the U.S. control of Texas, New Mexico, and California in exchange for $15 million

William Lloyd Garrison

Prominent American abolitionist, journalist and social reformer. Editor of radical abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator", and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.