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28 Cards in this Set
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Antebellum |
Before War, refers to the are leading up to the Civil War |
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Eli Whitney's cotton gin |
Expanded agriculture enormously, as it did to slave labor |
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The Peculiar Institution |
Euphemism for slavery, peculiar referred to Unique not strange |
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The tredegar Iron Works |
In Richmond was staffed almost entirely by slaves |
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Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church |
AME 1816 |
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Nat Turner Rebellion |
1831 most significant slave revolt, Turner and 40 slaves killed 57 people, he was hanged |
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Underground Railroad |
Net worth of free blacks and few whites who helped runaways go to the north |
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American Colonization Society |
1816, Henry Clay, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Francis Scott Key, and Daniel Webster, free blacks cannot assimilate, $100,000 from Congress, black migration to Liberia |
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prigg vs. Pennsylvania |
1842, Pennsylvania indicted a slave-catcher PA personal Liberty law which preg broke was ruled unconstitutional fugitive slave law was constitutional but states did not have to force it |
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The gag resolution 1836 |
Congress prohibited all anti-slavery appeals and petitions, representative and former President John Quincy Adams fought for 8 years for its repeal it was in 1844 |
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The Amistad |
1839, a slave Mutiny occurred aboard the Spanish vessel the Amistad, 36 slaves made it to New York, John Quincy Adams argued for their freedom to the Supreme Court they were freed |
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the Second Great Awakening |
A series of Evangelical Protestant revivals that swept Over America |
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Lyman Beecher, father of Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Minister, famous Temperance leader |
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Deist |
Typically rejected Supernatural events prophecy Miracles and divine revelation |
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Evangelicalism |
Refers to Broad collection of religious beliefs and actions that are found among conservative Protestant Christians |
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the temperance movement |
Opposed alcohol and was led by Lyman Beecher |
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The Cult of Domesticity or the cult of true Womanhood |
Home was the Woman's Place |
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the doctrine of two spheres |
Men occupy the public sphere and women were Guardians of the home |
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Dorothea Dix |
Publicized poor conditions of Prisons for houses and asylums in lobby for corrective action |
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William Lloyd Garrison |
Abolitionist journal in 1831 called The Liberator |
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Liberty party |
Was the first abolitionist political party |
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black abolitionists |
Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman |
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The London anti-slavery conference |
1840, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, met at this conference they were denied involvement determine to plan Women's Rights Convention |
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Seneca Falls Convention 1848 |
birthplace a feminism issued the Declaration of Sentiments which listed women's rights |
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other feminist |
Lydia child, Amelia Bloomer, Lucy Stone, Susan B Anthony |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Most admired transcendentalist |
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Henry David Thoreau |
Transcendentalist, Walden Pond experiment in solitary living 1845 to 1847 |
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civil disobedience |
1849 Thoreau advocated peaceful protest to government Injustice |