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made up of originial southern states of atlantic coast
rely on cultivation of tobacco, rice
upper south
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
located in Richmond this facility compared favorably w/ iron mills in NE
Tredegar Iron Works
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
he was a resident of New Orleans
published mag. advocating southern commerical and agric. expansion

why?: econ, indep from north
De Bow's Review
term for white southerners
free from base insticts of "yankees" to north
traditional and refined way of life
cavalier
owned 40+ slaves & 800+ acres
excercise power and influence far in excess of #'s
apex of society
typically new to wealth
planter aristocracy
white males in the south abide by a code of chivalry, defend dignity
cult of honor
men dominant over woman
paternalism
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"
the modest yeomen farmer
owned few slaves (3/4 white didnt own any slaves)
subsistence farming; some cotton
plain folk
nonslaveowning whites who oppose the planter elite
App. Mtns. Ozarks "back country"
most isolated; subsistence
hill people
"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"
southerns euphemism for slavery
describe as distinctive, special
"peculiar institution"
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
slave codes
used on large plantation- rice culture
slaves assigned a particular task each day> free for the rest of the day
task system
lg plantations- cotton sugar tobacco
slaves divided into groups, directed by a driver, compelled to work for many hours
gang system
sterotype
stupid slave. shuffle feet, grinning= charade
Sambo
gathered 1000 rebellious slaves (1800) outside richmond
stopped by VA militia before it began- 35 men executed
Gabriel Prosser
free black (1822) 9000 foloowers prepare to revolt in charleston
suppressed and punished
Denmark Vesey
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
language of mix of african american words and english
pidgin language
created realtionships "adopted" family members of slaves
kinship networks
movement that said an innately good spirit resides within every individual
indiv. should strive to fully express inner spirit
Romanticism
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
1st great american novelist
30 novels in 3 decades
evocated wilderness
"Leatherstocking Tales"- Deerslayer
effort to produce american lit
James Fenimore Cooper
self-proclaimed poet of Amer. Democracy
Leaves of Graces- celebrate democ. libertation of individual
Walt Whitman
greatest american novelist of era
Moby Dick
story of courage and indiv. wills
search for personal fullfillment could also destroy
Herman Melville
southern writer
sad poems and stories
images of indiv. arising above intellectual confines
Edgar Allan Poe
most distinguished of region's men of letters
strong defender of southern insitutions and unique quality to southern life
William simms
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
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
transcendtalist
indiv should work on self-realization by resisting presures to conform to socety
Walden- live simply
Thoreau
experimental community by George Ripley
West Roxbury, Mass. 1841
all residents have equal labor and leisure
individualism>socialism; experiment dissolved in 1847
Brook Farm
original resident of Brookfarm
expressed disillusionment with experiment in the Blithedale Romance
the Scarlet Letter
Nathanial Hawthorne
scottish industrialst and philanthropist
fouded NEW HARMONY
inidiana 1825
"village of cooperation" -residents live in equality
economic failure
Robert Owen
leading transcendentalist and assoc. of Emerson
discovering "self" realted to antebellum reform and question of gedner roles
Margaret Fuller
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
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
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
successor to smith
ked 12000 people to Utah- Salt Lake City= mormon permanent settlement
Brigham Young
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
this was a series of towns along the Erie Canal that was prone to relig. awakenenigns ; experienced econ. & social transformation
burn-over district
made up of new reformers in 1826
used techniques of revivalism in preaching abstinence
American Society for the Promotion of Temperance
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
CT presbyterian minister and reformer
prescribed fruits and vegetables and bread instead of meat
"graham cracker"
Sylvester Graham
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
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
developed vaccine against small pox
Edward Jenner
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
NE transcendentalist
experimental school= children teach themselves, not teacher
Bronson Alcott
institutions of charitable acitivities
>perkins school for the blind
Benevolent Empire
movement for the criminals and mentally ill
replace being thrown in jail w/ penitentiaries
Asylum Movement
mental institution that provides proper environment
1st in NY 1821
penitentiaries
she was a Mass. reformer
began national movement for new methods of treating mentally ill
Dorthea Dix
these two women were outspoken abolitionists in SC
"men and women are created equal"
Sarah and Angelina Grimke
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
convention organized by Mott Stanton and Anthony
discuss question of women's rights
Seneca Falls
said all men and women are created equal
want right to vote> suffrage movement
rejects social spheres
The Decleration of Sentiments and Resolutions
this group already had many women involved
embraced sexual equality
Quakers
1st ordained woman minister in US
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
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
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
founded by Garrison 1833
develop strength and assertiveness for antislavery movement
American AntiSlavery Society
free black in Boston 1829
published Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizen
> america is more black's than whites> most militant
David Walker
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
editor of antislavery newspaper in IL
was victim of repeated mob violence> each time he rebuilt his machines
killed in 1837
Elijah Lovejoy
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
abolitionists in the northern state passed these forbidding state official to assist in capturing runaways
Personal Liberty Laws
case said states dont have to retun fugitive slaves
Prigg v. Pennsylvania
1842
movement by the Liberty Party
said keeping slaves out the terriotoriesattracted support of lg. #'s of N. population
Free Soil
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
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