Cotton and Cities
Which time frame did the South experience tremendous wealth from cotton production:
1780-1820
1830-1840
1850-1860
1830-1840
What did the expression "burned over" mean in the Second Great Awakening?
It meant there were so many revivals by different religious groups that there were no more souls to awaken to the fire of spiritual conversion.
What was the largest American reform movement of the antebellum period?
Temperance
Who, in 1831, established a newspaper called The Liberator, through which he organized and spearheaded an unprecedented interracial crusade dedicated to promoting immediate emancipation and Black citizenship?
William Lloyd Garrison
Women were expected to be pious, pure, submissive, and domestic, and to pass these virtues on to their children in what historians have labelled:
The Cult of Domesticity, or The Cult of Womanhood
List any FOUR of the cotton-producing states in the 1830s:
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana
This denomination grew the fastest in American history during the revivals of the 18th century:
Methodism
Melding religion and reform into a powerful force in American culture was the movement known as the:
Benevolent Empire
Identify either of the two wealthy and famous Charleston sisters who railed against slavery and had to relocate North to do so:
Sarah and Angelina Grimke
The term wherein a married woman's rights were tied to the husband's was called:
Coverture
Which type of cotton grew relatively quickly on cheap, widely available land?
Petit Gulf
Which religious group, often mocked for their trembling at the reading of God's Word (the Bible), was one of the first to push abolition of slavery?
Quakers
This preacher led the effort to curb the consumption of alcohol and galvanized widespread support among the middle class:
Lyman Beecher
Whigs (the predecessor of the Republican Party) and Democrats in Congress joined together in 1836 to pass the "gag rule". Define this term:
Prohibiting all discussion of abolitionist petitions in the House of Representatives.
Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony. What were these women FIRST known to fight for:
The antislavery movement
Which southern port handled most of the South's cotton shipments?
New Orleans, LA
What united the Transcendentalists?
Their belief in a higher spiritual principle within each person that could be trusted to discover truth, guide moral action, and inspire art.
Her book, Uncle Tom's Cabin, enlightened Americans to the horrors of slavery:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Escaped slave and gifted orator, this person became a prominent voice for abolition, even printing books and becoming internationally known:
Frederick Douglass
Championing property rights, access to the professions, and, most controversially, the right to vote, women attended this convention in 1848:
Seneca Falls (NY) Convention
Approximately how many people were enslaved by 1860:
1) 3 million
2) 4 million
3) 5 million
4 million
This was one of the First Great Awakening preachers from England:
George Whitfield
What was first major petition campaign by American women? What did they rally first against?
Opposition to the removal of Native people to the Oklahoma territory.
Young abolitionists believed they could convince enslavers to voluntarily release their enslaved laborers by appealing to their sense of Christian conscience. This was a policy which came to be called:
Moral suasion
Just prior to the Civil War, which state(s) seriously considered offering women's suffrage (the right to vote):
None