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who started protestant revivals?
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charles grandson finney
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what did protestant revivals do? (3)
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1. urged people to love god, not fear him
2. tent revivals, 3 days, singing, praying, Bible study 3. return to community and spread positive attitude *attracted many people ; many thought only good things could come of this |
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who started transcendentalism?
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Ralph Waldo Emerson; David Thoreau
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what did transcendentalism do?
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1.urged people to act on their own beliefs
2. live in harmony with ature/simplicity *against excess (wanted to steer away from materialism) |
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who started the women rights movement
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elizabeth stanton, lucretia mott, sojourner truth
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whats da inf0 on the w0m3ns r!gths movem3nt!?
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1. women were part of many movements (temperance and abolition)
2. wanted equality & right to vote 3. Did it because they could NOT own property, write, wills, publicly speak, attend college, or have job oppurtunities |
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who advocated public education?
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Horace Mann
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whats with public education?
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1. it promoted government funded education
2. it emphasized that education will enhance self-discipline and good citizenship |
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who started prison reforms?
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Dorothea Dix
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info on prison reforms?
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1. documents horrible conditions in prisons and mental asylums
2. presuaded states to create a caring environment for mentally ill to be treated |
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What happened in Seneca Falls, NY?
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declaration of Sentiments which taregeted how women were treated in society
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_____ was used to power engines
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steam/coal; it was very unsafe - risk of explosion
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train tracks were not made on _____ _____
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drivable angles; toppled over easily
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was the northeast idead for industrial purposes or farming?
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industrial, not enough land for farming
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the west was the _____ of the country
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bread basket
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the south exported....
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cotton, tobacco, sugar, and rice
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how did women use cotton?
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weaved thread, weaved cloth (to make clothing)
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what was the cottage system?
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1. everything was made in the home
2. family or apprentices 3. everyone was self-reliant and made everything they needed *this stopped after industrial revolution began |
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what did samuel slater do?
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memorized blueprints of cotton textile machines in great britain, and sold them to american buisness men. it was illegal to get the blueprints himself and bring them to the US, and if he was caught he would have risked prosecution and possibly execution
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what did francis c. lowell do?
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1. started the first textile factory in America
2. the factories operated on water power & provided new jobs for skilled & unskilled workers (especially women) |
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describe Mill Girls
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- teenage girls who leave home to provide extra income for their families
- perks to being a mill girl *making money for parents and self * making friends *possibly meeting a potential husband |
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what did cyrus mccormick do?
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invented the reaper
*textile industry began to improve |
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who invented the first steam boat?
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robert fulton
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what was wage slavery?
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workers that worked long hours and were paid a small paycheck, but were treated badly (like slaves)
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what did samuel F.B. morse do?
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1. invented telegraph
2. did this to speed up information travel (because of his wife dying and him not getting the notice till way after she was buried) 3. created morse code |
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what hate god wraught?
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SAMUEL FB MORSE PICKED THIS PASSAGE BECAUSE GOD CREATED THIS COMMUNICATION, NOT HIM
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who invented the sewing machine?
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elias howe
* singer added the pedal |
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who invented the cotton gin?
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eli whitney
*it separated seeds from cotton, and was thought to decrease slave labor, but actually increased it because not the quota for products became higher |
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who invented the steel plow?
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john deere
-cut through soil better than iron |
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what was the rhode island system?
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a system where whole families would work in mills. fathers on plots of land, mothers on piecework, and children in the mills. ideal for small mills
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what was the waltham system?
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young, unmarried women were recruited to work in large factories. ideal for large factories
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who fought for womens rights and abolitionism?
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sojourner truth
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who helped 2,700 (oh damn) slaves escape slavery?
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William Still - free black who was a station master in philedelphia
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what was the underground railroad?
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a civil rights movement, unknown to slave owners, to help free slaves from slavery
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southern plantation owners view on slavery...
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they believed it was the human stock market, and economic trade. it aided the economy.
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who assisted runaways ?
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Native americans helped slaves escape (as buisness), expecting in return that slaves would convert to catholiscism and fight for spain
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what was significant about fort moosa?
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1st legal & free african american community
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who was crispus attucks and what was his role in the first american revolution?
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a former slave who was the first man killed in the boston massacre
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three s's
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songs, signs, symbols
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what was the drinking gourd?
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-a constellation : the big dipper (contained north star)
-a song that was like a verbal map that led slaves to freedom |
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explain abolitionist vengeance committes
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they fought for political change, turned their home into safe houses for slaves, rallied for the ban on slavery, and helped to purchase freedom for slaves
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what was the liberator, its publisher, and its purpose?
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americas first abolitionist weekly (newspaper); william lloyd garrison; to make people aware of how cruel slavery is, and will become if it isnt stopped
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why were people moved by frederick douglass speech?
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he was a very articulate and educated speaker, and he clearly depictaed the life of slavery to those who knew nothing about it
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how did william still and his family help slaves
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they harbored slaves in their home, kept records and narratives of slaves, and sent letters to slaves families (Station house)
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what did henry brown do?
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sat in a box with 3 airholes, and shipped himself, sitting upside down, on a 26 hour train ride to william still in philedelphia
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what did william craft and his wife do?
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william dressed his light skinned wife in rich white people clothes, put her arm in a sling so that she wouldnt have to write, told peple she was deaf so that she wouldnt have to speak, and drove with her by horse carriage to freedom - making everyone think that she was a free white and he was her servant
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why did people think that the fugitive slave act was too harsh?
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it forced whites who were gainst slavery or who did not want anything to do with it to help capture slaves, and it treated slaves like animals. also it encaptured slaves tht were already free, just to make more money
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define harriet tubman
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most successfu fugitive slave (led 300 slaves to freedom)
she repeated freedom trips every night (19 times) and a bounty of $40,000 was placed on her |
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who wrote uncle toms cabin
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harriet beecher stow
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what location served as the "unofficial post office" and person as the "unoffical mail man"
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black churches; black sailors
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what happened in syracuse, ny in 1850
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a slave was captured and was about to be brought back to slavery. he made a scene by begging the crowd of whites for a knife so he could kill himself, because that was better than returning to slavery
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describe the actions of reverend john rankin
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had a house on the hill where there was a staircase that would let slaves enter the home for sanctuary. he had a high bounty placed on him even though he was white, because he helped many slaves to freedom. station master
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describe the actions of JP parker
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he was a former slave, and he would every night take his small boat out on the ohio river and transport slaves from the slavery side to the free side, even if it was only one slave at a time, because he wanted to save as many slaves as possible, even though it risked his life and freedom. conductor
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what was the liberator, its publisher, and its purpose?
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americas first abolitionist weekly (newspaper); william lloyd garrison; to make people aware of how cruel slavery is, and will become if it isnt stopped
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why were people moved by frederick douglass speech?
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he was a very articulate and educated speaker, and he clearly depictaed the life of slavery to those who knew nothing about it
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how did william still and his family help slaves
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they harbored slaves in their home, kept records and narratives of slaves, and sent letters to slaves families (Station house)
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what did henry brown do?
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sat in a box with 3 airholes, and shipped himself, sitting upside down, on a 26 hour train ride to william still in philedelphia
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what did william craft and his wife do?
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william dressed his light skinned wife in rich white people clothes, put her arm in a sling so that she wouldnt have to write, told peple she was deaf so that she wouldnt have to speak, and drove with her by horse carriage to freedom - making everyone think that she was a free white and he was her servant
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why did people think that the fugitive slave act was too harsh?
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it forced whites who were gainst slavery or who did not want anything to do with it to help capture slaves, and it treated slaves like animals. also it encaptured slaves tht were already free, just to make more money
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define harriet tubman
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most successfu fugitive slave (led 300 slaves to freedom)
she repeated freedom trips every night (19 times) and a bounty of $40,000 was placed on her |
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who wrote uncle toms cabin
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harriet beecher stow
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what location served as the "unofficial post office" and person as the "unoffical mail man"
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black churches; black sailors
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what happened in syracuse, ny in 1850
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a slave was captured and was about to be brought back to slavery. he made a scene by begging the crowd of whites for a knife so he could kill himself, because that was better than returning to slavery
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