Religious and Economic Reform
THIS INTELLECTUAL MOVEMENT CHAMPIONED BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON REJECTED SOCIETAL NORMS FOR A DEEP, SPIRITUAL CONNECTION WITH NATURE
WHAT IS TRANSCENDENTALISM?
THIS ANTEBELLUM REFORM MOVEMENT WAS FUELLED BY MORAL OBJECTION TO SLAVERY AS WELL AS ITS FUNDAMENTAL CONTRADICTION OF BOTH BIBLICAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL VALUES
WHAT IS ABOLITIONISM?
WOMEN’S RIGHTS ACTIVISTS DESCRIBED WOMEN’S PLACE IN THE HOUSEHOLD AS THIS, HIGHLIGHTING THEIR LACK OF PERSONAL AND LEGAL RIGHTS WITHIN MARRIAGE
WHAT IS DOMESTIC MARRIAGE?
THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH WAS CONSIDERED THIS, A SOCIETY SHAPED ECONOMICALLY, CULTURALLY, AND SOCIALLY BY THE LABOR OF DEHUMANIZED PERSONS
WHAT IS SLAVE SOCIETY?
THIS TERM REFERS TO THE FACTION OF EARLY TEXAS THAT WISHED TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT FOR GREATER AUTONOMY, SUPPORTED BY BOTH THE MEXICAN LIBERAL PARTY AND JACKSONIAN DEMOCRATS
WHAT IS THE "PEACE PARTY"?
THIS PROTESTANT REVIVAL MOVEMENT RENEWED AMERICAN REFORM, PUTTING EMPHASIS ON INDIVIDUAL SALVATION AND KICKSTARTING THE RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL REFORM OF THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY
WHAT IS THE SECOND GREAT AWAKENING?
THIS NETWORK WAS FORMED TO SUPPORT THE FREEDOM OF FUGITIVE SLAVES, WITH HARRIET TUBMAN BEING ITS MOST FAMOUS AND DEDICATED “CONDUCTOR”
WHAT IS THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD?
THIS 1848 CONVENTION WAS THE GATHERING OF MAJOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS LEADERS, PRODUCING THE DECLARATION OF SENTIMENTS AS A DEMAND FOR CIVIL EQUALITY
WHAT IS SENECA FALLS?
A SCHOOL OF THOUGHT SUPPORTED BY “BENEVOLENT MASTERS” AS WELL AS POLITICIANS SUCH AS JOHN C. CALHOUN AND SOUTH CAROLINA’S JAMES HENRY HAMMOND, THIS TERM REFERS TO THE BELIEF THAT SLAVERY BENEFITTED ALL PARTIES INVOLVED IN SLAVERY
WHAT IS "POSITIVE GOOD"
SLAVE OPPOSITION CONDUCTED SUBTLY, SUCH AS SLOWING WORK, BREAKING TOOLS, AND FAKING ILLNESS
WHAT IS PASSIVE RESISTANCE?
THIS IDEOLOGICAL EMPHASIS CARRIED BY MIDDLE CLASS AMERICA PRIORITIZED THE SELF, EMPOWERING MORALITY AND NATURAL GOOD
WHAT IS INDIVIDUALISM?
THIS ANTEBELLUM ACTIVIST FOUNDED THE NEWSPAPER THE LIBERATOR AS WELL AS THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY, BOLSTERING THE GROWING ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT
WHO IS WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON?
SHE CO-FOUNDED THE NATIONAL WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION AND DEMONSTRATED CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE BY VOTING IN A NATIONAL ELECTION
WHO IS SUSAN B. ANTHONY?
THESE TWO METHODS OF SLAVE TRANSPORT COMPOSED THE DOMESTIC SLAVE TRADE, DISPERSING THE UPPER SOUTH’S SLAVE POPULATION TO THE EXPANDING DEEP SOUTH
WHAT ARE COASTAL TRADE & THE INLAND SYSTEM?
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=DAILY DOUBLE=-=-=-=-=-=-=- TWO MAJOR CITIES OF MODERN TEXAS ARE NAMED AFTER THESE TWO MAJOR FIGURES IN THE FOUNDING OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS: WHILE ONE CONDUCTED AMERICAN EMIGRATION TO TEXAS LAND, THE OTHER FOSTERED THE REBELLION AGAINST MEXICAN PRESIDENT SANTA ANNA
WHO ARE MOSES/STEPHEN AUSTIN & SAM HOUSTON?
MORMONISM WAS THE FIRST TRULY AMERICAN RELIGION, FOUNDED BY THIS PROPHET WHO FACED SIGNIFICANT PERSECUTION
WHO IS JOSEPH SMITH?
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=DAILY DOUBLE=-=-=-=-=-=-=- THIS CONGRESSIONAL RULE SUPPORTED BY ANDREW JACKSON AUTOMATICALLY TABLED ABOLITIONIST PETITIONS, DEMONSTRATING THE GOVERNMENT’S CONTINUING AVOIDANCE OF SLAVERY-RELATED ISSUES
WHAT IS THE GAG RULE?
THIS WOMEN’S RIGHTS ACTIVIST PROMOTED WOMEN’S PLACE IN EDUCATION AS WELL AS THEIR MORAL INFLUENCE WITHIN THE HOME, FOUNDING MANY SCHOOLS FOR WOMEN IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY
WHO IS CATHARINE BEECHER?
THIS LEGAL DOCTRINE DEFINED ENSLAVED PEOPLE AS PROPERTY WITHOUT PERSONAL RIGHTS
WHAT IS CHATTEL PRINCIPLE?
TERM REFERRING TO THE BUILDING OF FAMILIES, COMMUNITIES, AND SMALL PROPERTY WITHIN SLAVE LIFE AS A FORM OF RESISTANCE AND CULTURAL PRESERVATION
WHAT IS "TAKING ROOT"?
THIS AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTALIST PHILOSOPHER PROMOTED SIMPLE LIVING, SELF-RELIANCE, AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AS A REJECTION OF INDUSTRIAL CONFORMITY AND UNJUST LAWS
WHO IS HENRY DAVID THOREAU?
THE KILLING OF THIS ABOLITIONIST NEWSPAPER EDITOR IN A VIOLENT ANTI-ABOLITIONIST MOB RIOT SHOWED THE RUTHLESS RESISTANCE TO ABOLITION AS A THREAT TO SOUTHERN SOCIETY
WHO IS ELIJAH LOVEJOY?
ALONG WITH QUAKER ACTIVIST LUCRETIA MOTT, SHE ORGANIZED THE FIRST MAJOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS CONVENTION AND DRAFTED THE DECLARATION OF SENTIMENTS
WHO IS ELIZABETH CADY STANTON?
THE WEALTHY ARISTOCRACY, ALSO KNOWN AS THIS, TOPPED THE HIERARCHY OF THE DEEP SOUTH LEADERSHIP THROUGH SOCIAL STANDING AND LAND, HIRING OUT LABOR AND REMAINING POLITICALLY ACTIVE
WHAT IS THE PLANTER ELITE?
IN APRIL OF 1836, THIS BATTLE BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS AND MEXICO CEMENTED MEXICAN INDIFFERENCE TO TEXAN INDEPENDENCE, THANKS IN LARGE PART TO ALAMO-INSPIRED NATIONAL SUPPORT
WHAT IS THE BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO?