Cotton Kingdom
This invention dramatically increased cotton production and strengthened slavery in the South.
What is the cotton gin?
This religious revival helped inspire many antebellum reform movements.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This leading transcendentalist wrote “Self-Reliance.”
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
This compromise temporarily eased tensions by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This pseudoscience claimed that bumps on the skull could reveal personality traits.
What is phrenology?
This region became the center of cotton production after the War of 1812.
What is the Deep South?
This movement focused on banning the consumption of alcohol.
What is the temperance movement?
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What is teetotaling?
This author of Walden promoted simple living close to nature.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
This runaway enslaved woman became a key figure in the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This group of mercenaries settled across border lines in order to expand US territory.
Who were filibusters?
These two crops were the most important to the world economy before cotton took over after 1812.
What are cotton and tobacco?
This utopian community saught to create Zion, a heavenly "city on a hill" in America.
Who are the Mormons?
Transcendentalism was centered largely in this New England state.
What is Massachusetts?
This violent 1831 rebellion led Southern states to increase restrictions on enslaved people.
What is Nat Turner’s Rebellion?
This 1850s organization combined all anti-slavery forces together into one electoral force.
What is the Republican Party?
This 1807 change led to heavy increases in the domestic slave trade.
This group of writers promoted self-reliance, creativity and connection with nature.
Who were the transcendentalists?
This concept emphasized the inherent goodness of people and the importance of personal intuition.
What is transcendentalism?
This group believed slavery should end immediately with full rights for African Americans.
Who are abolitionists?
This psuedo-scientific idea suggested that white and black people came from different geneological species.
What is polygenism?
This worldview proposed that slavery was actually in the best interest of the enslaved.
What is paternalism?
This figure promoted a "science of human life" that involved refraining from MASTURBATION.
(We need the first and last name!)
Who is Sylvester Graham?
The transcendetalists view of innate human good was inspired by this Enlightenment figure?
Who is Rousseau?
This book became one of the most influential antislavery autobiographies of the era.
What is The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass?
This event effectively ended the Missouri Compromise and plunged the country into civil strife.
What is the Mexican Cession (or the Mexican Civil War).