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73 Cards in this Set
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top "conductor of the underground railroad"
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Harriet Tubman
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invented the telegraph
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Samuel Morse
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lead a biolent slave revolt in Virginia
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Nat Turner
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South newspaper editor; advocated south independence from north
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James DeBow
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made "showcase Freaks" museum
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P.T. Barnum
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lead failed slave revolt in Richmond
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Gabriel Prosser
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discovered a method of vulcanizing rubber
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Charles Goodyear
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invented mechanical reaper
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Cyrus McCormick
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greatest american structure up till then
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Erie Canal
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Nativist Political Party
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Know nothings
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belief that women were supposed to do shit for men
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Cult of Domesticity
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largest factory in south
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Tredegar Iron Works
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language of american born slaves
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Pidgin
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slave codes
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limited the activities and legal status of slaves
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Trunk line
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consolidation of several small railroads
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major cotton growing region
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Lower South
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smisecret network used to help slaves escape
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underground railroad
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During the first half of the 19th Century balck population grew faster than white population
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FALSE
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An effect of rapid growing cities was a decline in poverty
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FALSE
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Artisans, displaced by factories, created first union
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TRUE
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Souther code of honor expected women to obey men in return for protection
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TRUE
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As a group, slaves were as healthy as whites
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FALSAE
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Nativists wanted more restrictive immigrant laws
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FALSE
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Old South suffered a series of violent salve revolts in the 1830's
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FALSE
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Because it was agricultural, Northwest experience little urban growth during the first half of the 1800's
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FALSE
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The main reason for european immigrants coming to the U.S. in 1815 - 1840 was economic oportunity
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TRUE
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during the 1820's and 1830's, railroads
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played secondary role in transportation
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In 1860 75% of all foreign born americans were
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Irish and Germans
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One reason for growth in citites in the early 1800's was
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the need to process farm products
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In Commmon Wealth vs. Hunt, MA supreme court ruled that
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labor unions were illegal
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led mormons to Utah
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Brigham Young
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joined with Lucretia Mott in organizing Seneca Falls
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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founder of utopian effort at New Harmony
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Robert Owen
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abolitionist; published The Liberator
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William Lloyd Garrison
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fought for establishment of insane asylums
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Doro, then Dix
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ex-slave and abolitionist lecturer; editor of North Star
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Frederick Douglass
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most influential proponent of public education
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Horace Mann
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wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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transcendentalist author of Walden
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Henry David Thoreau
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feminist ex-slave; "Aint I a Woman" speech
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Sojourner Truth
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campaign against alcohol
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Temperance
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study of skull shape to determine character
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phrenology
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Walt Whitman's celebration of democracy and individuality
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Leaves of Grass
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beliefs separated men from women
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shakers
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form of literature popular with women
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sentimental novels
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search for reality through spiritual intuition
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transcendentalism
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prohibited discussion of anti-slavery petitions in the House of Reps
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Gag Rule
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organized ex-slaves to return to Africa
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American Colonization Society
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created American Style of painting; displayed grandeur of nature
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Hudson RIver School
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utopian community where sexual activity was monitered by the community
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Oneidans
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Transcendentalism was an American form of Romanticism
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TRUE
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Emerson thought Americans should work for cultural autonomy
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TRUE
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utopian communities were establish to acheive social, religious, and perfection
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TRUE
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the shakers were able to prosper because of their high birth rate
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FALSE
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Transcendentalists thought that literature should conform to universal standards
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FALSE
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Philosophy of reform in America drew haevily from the Protestant Revival.
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TRUE
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Although there was opposition to slavery in the North, it was always peaceful.
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FALSE
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Free soil was more popular than Abolition in the South.
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TRUE
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Abolition opponents said it would hurt trade between the North and the South.
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TRUE
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Middle class reformers in the 1820's, 1830's and 1840's were most interested in reforming
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which of tese had the greatest influence on women suffragists
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temperance and abolition movements
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Transcendentalists believed that people should
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work to mild self-improvement
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middle class americas who pioneered public school reforms wanted
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school to teach character and manners
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in the 1830's and 1840's, most southern whites
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defended their traditional way of life
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In the 1830's and 1840's most working class immigrants
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resented major reform movements
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Seneca Fals is most closely associated with
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women's rights
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During the pre-civil war decades, american painters preferred to paint
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landscapes
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The goals of educational reformers in antebelum years included
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all of the above
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which of the following stressed the importance of individual inspirations, self reliance, dissent, and non-conformity
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Transcendentalists writers found their major source of truth and inspiration in
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nature
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like other social experiments, mormonism reflected
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a belief in human perfectability
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this quote, "I am in earnest, I will not excuse, i will not retreat a single inch and i will be heard" reflects what type of sentiment towards slavery
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immediate abolitionists
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the reform movements of athe first half of the 19th century reflected which of the following implulses
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A and C
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