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made up of originial southern states of atlantic coast
rely on cultivation of tobacco, rice |
upper south
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expanding agric. regions in new sattes of SW
booming cotton economy 2/3 export by civil war later known as "deep south" "cotton kingdom" |
lower south
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located in Richmond this facility compared favorably w/ iron mills in NE
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Tredegar Iron Works
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these people were brokers who marketed planter's crops in New Orleans, Charleston, Mobile, Savannah
find buyers for cotton and purchase goods for planters provide planters with credit |
Factors
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he was a resident of New Orleans
published mag. advocating southern commerical and agric. expansion why?: econ, indep from north |
De Bow's Review
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term for white southerners
free from base insticts of "yankees" to north traditional and refined way of life |
cavalier
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owned 40+ slaves & 800+ acres
excercise power and influence far in excess of #'s apex of society typically new to wealth |
planter aristocracy
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white males in the south abide by a code of chivalry, defend dignity
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cult of honor
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men dominant over woman
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paternalism
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characteristics of a _______:
centered around home little access to public world spiinning weaving, etc less educ. than north incr. birth rate. incr, mortality rate |
"Southern Lady"
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the modest yeomen farmer
owned few slaves (3/4 white didnt own any slaves) subsistence farming; some cotton |
plain folk
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nonslaveowning whites who oppose the planter elite
App. Mtns. Ozarks "back country" most isolated; subsistence |
hill people
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"sand hillers" "crackers"
degraded class of whites owned No land, support through hunting, suffer from disease, sometimes worrse off than african americans |
"poor white trash"
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southerns euphemism for slavery
describe as distinctive, special |
"peculiar institution"
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forbade slaves to hold property, leave w/o permission, be out after dark, congregate except @ church, carry firearms, can't testify in court against whites, cant learn to read and write
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slave codes
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used on large plantation- rice culture
slaves assigned a particular task each day> free for the rest of the day |
task system
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lg plantations- cotton sugar tobacco
slaves divided into groups, directed by a driver, compelled to work for many hours |
gang system
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sterotype
stupid slave. shuffle feet, grinning= charade |
Sambo
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gathered 1000 rebellious slaves (1800) outside richmond
stopped by VA militia before it began- 35 men executed |
Gabriel Prosser
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free black (1822) 9000 foloowers prepare to revolt in charleston
suppressed and punished |
Denmark Vesey
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salve preacher- 1831
led Af-Amer armed w. guns and axes went house to house and killed men women and children 100+ blacks executed only actual slave insurrection in 19th century |
Nat Turner
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language of mix of african american words and english
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pidgin language
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created realtionships "adopted" family members of slaves
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kinship networks
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movement that said an innately good spirit resides within every individual
indiv. should strive to fully express inner spirit |
Romanticism
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set up by Frederic Church, Thomas Cole, Thomas Doughty, Asher Durand
1st great school of Amer. painters NY painted vistas of rugged Hudson Valley |
Hudson River School & Associated Artists
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1st great american novelist
30 novels in 3 decades evocated wilderness "Leatherstocking Tales"- Deerslayer effort to produce american lit |
James Fenimore Cooper
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self-proclaimed poet of Amer. Democracy
Leaves of Graces- celebrate democ. libertation of individual |
Walt Whitman
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greatest american novelist of era
Moby Dick story of courage and indiv. wills search for personal fullfillment could also destroy |
Herman Melville
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southern writer
sad poems and stories images of indiv. arising above intellectual confines |
Edgar Allan Poe
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most distinguished of region's men of letters
strong defender of southern insitutions and unique quality to southern life |
William simms
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grou of NE writers and philospohers who embrace individual that rested on a distinction between reason and understanding
reason= cpapcity to grasp beauty and truth understanding= allow emotions to control |
transcendentalists
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leader of the transcendtalists
drew rapturous crowds. "Nature" indiv should work for communion with natural world "the American Scholar" truth and beauty can come from instinct |
Emerson
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transcendtalist
indiv should work on self-realization by resisting presures to conform to socety Walden- live simply |
Thoreau
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experimental community by George Ripley
West Roxbury, Mass. 1841 all residents have equal labor and leisure individualism>socialism; experiment dissolved in 1847 |
Brook Farm
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original resident of Brookfarm
expressed disillusionment with experiment in the Blithedale Romance the Scarlet Letter |
Nathanial Hawthorne
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scottish industrialst and philanthropist
fouded NEW HARMONY inidiana 1825 "village of cooperation" -residents live in equality economic failure |
Robert Owen
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leading transcendentalist and assoc. of Emerson
discovering "self" realted to antebellum reform and question of gedner roles |
Margaret Fuller
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community by John Humphrey Noyes
upstate NY- 1848 reject trad. notion of family and marriage no permananent ties; children raised communally. liberation of woman from trad. bonds |
Oneida
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redefined tra. sexulaity and gender roles
by ANN LEE 1770s complete celibacy= shakers had to choose faith> attract more woman than men. limited contact with opposite sex |
Shakers
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young man who published the Book of Mormo
translation of gold tablets given to him by an angel in mts of NY church of Jesus christ of latter day saints= mormons |
Joseph Smith
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successor to smith
ked 12000 people to Utah- Salt Lake City= mormon permanent settlement |
Brigham Young
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he was an evangelistic presbyterian minister who was the most influential revial leader in the 1820 & 1830s
said calvinist doctrines of pre.destination and indiv helplessness were obsolete each person can achieve own salvation |
Charles Granidson Finney
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this was a series of towns along the Erie Canal that was prone to relig. awakenenigns ; experienced econ. & social transformation
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burn-over district
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made up of new reformers in 1826
used techniques of revivalism in preaching abstinence |
American Society for the Promotion of Temperance
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society by 6 reformed alcholics in 1840
workers were heavily represented= hear confessions of sins> 1 million ppl sign formal pledge to forgo liquor |
Washington Temperance Society
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CT presbyterian minister and reformer
prescribed fruits and vegetables and bread instead of meat "graham cracker" |
Sylvester Graham
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by Orson and Lorenzo Fauler in the 1830s
said shape of head indicates character/ intelligence way to measure indiv fitness for position in life >> no true sci. value |
phrenology
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boston essayist and poet in 1843
study puerperal fever (secepticemia) = conludes disease transmitted from 1 person to another >> met w/ criticism but confirmed= infection spread by med students who touched corspe if they washed hands= NO diease |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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developed vaccine against small pox
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Edward Jenner
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1st sec of mass board of educ.
lengthed academic year to 6 months, dbl teacher salary, enrich curriculum, introduced proffesional training of teacher |
Horace Mann
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NE transcendentalist
experimental school= children teach themselves, not teacher |
Bronson Alcott
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institutions of charitable acitivities
>perkins school for the blind |
Benevolent Empire
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movement for the criminals and mentally ill
replace being thrown in jail w/ penitentiaries |
Asylum Movement
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mental institution that provides proper environment
1st in NY 1821 |
penitentiaries
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she was a Mass. reformer
began national movement for new methods of treating mentally ill |
Dorthea Dix
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these two women were outspoken abolitionists in SC
"men and women are created equal" |
Sarah and Angelina Grimke
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these american women were delgates in london
turned away by men @ procedding=> desire to elevate women organize Seneca Falls convention |
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B. Anthony |
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convention organized by Mott Stanton and Anthony
discuss question of women's rights |
Seneca Falls
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said all men and women are created equal
want right to vote> suffrage movement rejects social spheres |
The Decleration of Sentiments and Resolutions
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this group already had many women involved
embraced sexual equality |
Quakers
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1st ordained woman minister in US
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Antoinette Brown Blackwell
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this society was amde up of prominent white virginians- 1817
challenged slavery w/o challenging prop. rights or southern sensibilities by gradual manumission; masters get compensation; slaves brought out of country >>>recieved funding from private donors- several af. amer transporeted back to africa== negligible forace b/c lack of funding |
American Colonization Society
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he published an anti-slavery paper- Liberator
said opponents to slavery should look at slave's view; talk about damage to blacks, extend american citizanenship to blacks >> gained lg group of followers in North |
William Lloyd Garrison
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founded by Garrison 1833
develop strength and assertiveness for antislavery movement |
American AntiSlavery Society
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free black in Boston 1829
published Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizen > america is more black's than whites> most militant |
David Walker
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he was a previous MD slave escaped in 1830
outspoken antislavery leader purcahsed freedom in 1847 foudned antislavery newspaper- North Star demanded full social and economic equality |
Frederick Douglass
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editor of antislavery newspaper in IL
was victim of repeated mob violence> each time he rebuilt his machines killed in 1837 |
Elijah Lovejoy
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moderate abolitionists
helped fund legal battle over spanish slave vessel africans headed for slavery in Cuba. seized ship--1832 tried to go back to africa. us seized ship. supreme ct declared them free |
Amistad
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abolitionists in the northern state passed these forbidding state official to assist in capturing runaways
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Personal Liberty Laws
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case said states dont have to retun fugitive slaves
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Prigg v. Pennsylvania
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movement by the Liberty Party
said keeping slaves out the terriotoriesattracted support of lg. #'s of N. population |
Free Soil
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writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin
combined emotional controversy of novel w/ politc ideas of abolition brought aboltion to new audience inflamed sectional tension |
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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an english reformer who attacked British connections with the slave trade
said continuing slavery would create more slave revolts 1807 parliament passed law ending slave trade withing British empire |
William Wilberforce
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