Unit 5 Vocab 17-32 Westward Expansion

Campaign against the sale or drinking of alcohol

• Temperance

• Trail of Tears

• Transcendentalism

• Worcester v. Georgia

Forced removal of the Five Civilized tribes from their land to the Indian Territory

• Temperance

• Trail of Tears

• Transcendentalism

• Worcester v. Georgia

Philosophical idea that the spiritual world is more important than the physical world and that people can find truth within themselves through intuition

• Temperance

• Trail of Tears

• Transcendentalism

• Worcester vs. Georgia

The Court ruled that the Cherokee nation was “a distinct community” with “self-government” in which the laws of Georgia had no force

• Temperance

• Trail of Tears

• Transcendentalism

• Worcester vs. Georgia

Leader of the original Democratic Party and a “President of the people”. He was also responsible for the Trail of Tears, which forced Native Americans west of the Mississippi River.

• Andrew Jackson

• Dorothea Dix

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Famous reformer who worked for better conditions in prisons and asylums

• Andrew Jackson

• Dorothea Dix

• Edgar Allen Poe

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Famous American writer and poet during the mid 1800’s

• Andrew Jackson

• Dorothea Dix

• Edgar Allen Poe

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Organized the Seneca Falls Convention creating the Women’s Rights Movement in the United States.

• Andrew Jackson

• Dorothea Dix

• Edgar Allen Poe

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Famous American writer and philosopher; published On the Duty of Civil Disobedience in response to the Mexican-American War

• Henry David Thoreau

• Horace Mann

• Hudson River School Artists

• John Quincy Adams

Famous reformer who worked for improvements in American public schools

• Henry David Thoreau

• Horace Mann

• Hudson River School Artists

• John Quincy Adams