Market Revolution
What are turnpikes, canals, steamboats, and railways?
This invention made it easier for cotton growers to separate seeds from cotton buds, increasing the profitability of growing cotton.
What is the cotton gin?
This phrase refers to the type of teaching commonly found in sermons during the Second Great Awakening.
Practical Preaching
This was the first woman's rights convention in the history of the America.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This fictional book, written by Harriet Beacher Stowe, was a best seller and recruited Americans to join the abolitionist cause.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Early textile factories tended to be located in (blank) areas and employ (blank) because they were powered by (blank).
- Rural Areas
- Women
- Water power
This slave revolt was one of the deadliest in U.S. history, with over 50 white Americans being killed and over 120 enslaved people being executed in retaliation.
Nat Turner's Revolt
This term refers to the desire to create a perfect society, a desire that fueled the rise of communes during the Second Great Awakening.
Utopia
In this document, women used the language and structure of the Declaration of Independence to charge men with tyrannical rule and to advocate for their natural rights.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
This early textile factory was located in MA and pioneered the process of recruiting young, females from local farms to live and work at their factories.
What is the Lowell System?
Later factories tended to be located in (blank) areas and employ (blank) because they were powered by (blank).
- Urban areas
- Immigrants
- Steam Engines
Southern defenses of slavery moved from describing slavery as a necessary evil to this.
What is a positive good?
In this intellectual movement, people were encouraged to pursue individualism rather than conformity. People must reject social norms and industrialization in order to commune with the divine and discover truth in nature and themselves.
What is Transcendentalism?
This abolitionist was known for publishing the Liberator, a popular anti-slavery magazine, prior to the Civil War.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
Name two leaders of the abolitionist movement
- Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, The Grimke Sisters, William Lloyd Garrison, etc...
This term refers to the policy of government support for economic growth. For example, state and federal governments subsidizing the construction of transportation networks.
What is Neomercantilism?
American involvement in (this) ended in 1809, fueling the developing of the domestic slave trade into the 1860s.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
This religious group believed that Jesus Christ had appeared in North America and were forced to migrate to Utah when they faced persecution for their patriarchal practice of polygamy.
Who were the Mormons?
This society was known for organizing the Great Postal Campaign, which aimed to put abolitionist literature in millions of Americans' mailboxes.
American Anti-Slavery Society
This abolitionist society urged newly freed slaves to return to Africa to spread democracy and Christianity there.
What is the American Colonization Society?
This ideology claimed that men and women operated in different worlds and advocated for strict gender roles that emphasized women's roles as wives and mothers in the home.
Separate Spheres Ideology
Why did agriculture and slavery continue to move westward following the invention of the cotton gin?
This woman was the leader of the Shakers.
Who was Mother Ann?
Name three reform movements that emerged in the 1800s.
- Abolitionism
- Women's Suffrage
- Temperance/Prohibition
This woman was arrested for illegally voting during a presidential election. She went on to lead the women's suffrage movement in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?