Term List, D.W. Howe, What Hath God Wrought

Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought, term list
Fall 2012

Pp. 1-202
Samuel Morse
Telegraphy
“communications revolution”
Ned Packenham
Thomas Mullins
Battle of New Orleans, 1815
Jedediah Morse
Vaqueros
“Middle Ground”
“little ice age”
Republican ideology
Husbandry
“agency”
Fur trade
Santa Fe Trail
Jedediah Smith
Sojourner Truth
Planter paternalism
Slave patrol
Dolley Madison
Battle of Baltimore, 1814
Old Republicans
Hartford Convention
Treaty of Ghent
Creek War
Second Treaty of Greenville
Algiers War
Madisonian Platform
Second Bank of the U.S.
14th Congress
John Randolph
Old Republicans/Tertium Quids
Tariff of 1816
National Road
Compensation Act
Bonus Bill
James Monroe
Monroe’s cabinet
Anglo-American Convention of 1818
First Seminole War
St. Mark’s
Transcontinental Treaty of Washington, 1819
Monroe Doctrine
Erie Canal
John Marshall
Joseph Story
preemption
Old Southwest
Second Middle Passage
Francis Cabot Lowell
Lowell, Mass.
Great Migration
Butternuts
John Chapman
Panic of 1819
Langdon Cheeves
Missouri Compromise
Rufus King
Denmark Vesey
Disestablishment
Temperance [American]
The Beecher Family
Charles G. Finney
“Burned-over District”
Oberlin College
“Christian perfection”
Circuit rider
Peter Cartwright
Baptists
“Second Great Awakening”
Evangelical United Front
Robert Baird
Elias Hicks
“Catholic revivalism”
John Hughes

Pp. 203-420
William H. Crawford
John C. Calhoun
John Quincy Adams
Henry Clay
Andrew Jackson
The Letters of Wyoming
National Road
Turnpike
Erie Canal
“Empire State”
United States Post Office
Sabbitarians
Washington Irving
James Fenimore Cooper
Timothy Flint
DeWitt Clinton
“Bucktails”
Chesapeake and Ohio
John McLean
American Colonization Society
Liberia
Freemasonry
Antimasons
“American System”
National Republicans
Tariff of Abominations
Democrat
“corrupt bargain”
Millennium (postm; prem)
Francis Wayland
American civil religion
William Miller
“The Great Disappointment”
Robert Owen
Associationist
Shakers
George Rapp
Amana Society
Martin Stephan
CFW Walther
Elizabeth Seton
Prophet Matthias
John Humphrey Noyes
Harriet Martineau
Frances Wright
Joseph Smith, Jr.
The Book of Mormon
Kirtland
Mormon War of 1838
Nauvoo
Mount Benedict
Nat Turner
“Age of Jackson”
“kitchen cabinet”
John Henry Eaton/Peggy Eaton
Indian Removal
Cherokee Nation
Sequoyuah
ABCFM
Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
“domestic dependent nation”
Maysville Veto Message
Pocket veto
Sovereignty
Robert Y. Hayne
Daniel Webster
Nicholas Biddle
Second Bank of the U.S.
Wildcat Banking
Martin Van Buren
Pet Banks
Great Triumvirate
Whig
Second Party System
Tariff of Abominations
Nullification proclamation
Force Bill

Pp. 410-524
John Ross
Treaty of New Echota
Black Hawk’s War
Keokuk
David Walker
William Lloyd Garrison
American Anti-Slavery Society
Amos Kendall
Mobocracy
Elijah Lovejoy
Code duello
Roger Taney
Robert Owen
American Bible Society
Alexander Campbell
Horace Mann
Edward Everett
Disestablishment
Yale Report of 1828
The Book of Nature
Joseph Henry
Miasma
Slyvester Graham
William Morton
Theodore Dwight Weld
James H. Thornwell
Martin Van Buren
Richard M. Johnson
William Henry Harrison
Amos Kendall (and again on pg. )
Deposit-Distribution Act
Specie Circular of 1836
Pet banks
Free banking
Doughface
William Leggett
Gag rule
Indian Removal
William Mackenzie
Cinque
Amistad

Pp. 525-
“Five Points”
Eli Whitney
Cyrus McCormick
John Deere
“manufactories”
Working Men’s political parties
Francis Wright
Thomas Skidmore
Locofocos
Lowell Female Reform Association
Stephen Van Rensselaer II
Anti-rent movement
Treatise on Domestic Economy
Maysville Veto
“legal person”/corporation
B&O Railroad
America’s economic “take-off”
William Henry Harrison
Log cabin/Hard Cider
Horace Greeley
Land Act of 1841
Bankruptcy Act of 1841
“Illinois System”
Dorr Rebellion
Dorothea Dix
Pp. 613-
William Ellery Channing
Laura Bridgman
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Transcendentalists 
Margaret Fuller
Henry David Thoreau
Brook Farm
Henry Wadworth Longfellow
Edgar Allen Poe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Frederick Douglass
Lewis Tappan
Theodore Dwight Weld
Liberty Party
Prigg v. Pennsylvania
Erasmo Seguin
Stephen Austin
Mexican Constitution of 1824
Filibuster
Santa Anna
Texian Revolution
William Travis
David Crockett
James Fannin
San Jacinto
Lone Star Republic
Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Robert Walker
James K. Polk
James G. Birney
Samuel F.B. Morse
Texas Annexation
ABCFM
Rendezvous
Hudson’s Bay Company
“Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!”
Joseph Smith
Mormonism
Nauvoo
Brigham Young
Zachary Taylor
George Wilkins Kendall
Winfield Scott
St. Patrick’s Battalion
John C. Fremont
Thomas Larkin
Stephen Watts Kearny
“No Territory”
Walker Tariff
Polk-Santa Anna Conspiracy
Cotton Whigs
Conscience Whigs
Revolutions of 1848
“All Mexico”
Nicholas Trist
Gold Rush
Irish Potato Famine
Nativism
Lewis Cass
Free Soil
Declaration of Sentiments