Life in the North/Women's Rights
Nativists
An organized attempt to improve what is unjust or imperfect in society.
Social reform
American Colonization Society
He wrote a book of poems called Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
This political party made up of Nativists would reply, "I know nothing" when asked about the party.
Know-Nothing Party
To prepare for planting
Cultivate
The idea that God decided in advance which people would attain salvation after death.
Predestination
Reformers who wanted to end slavery completely in the United States.
Abolitionists
Wrote poems that reflected loneliness of life
Emily Dickinson
Seneca Falls Convention
This label applied to wealthy families because they made huge amounts of money from cotton.
Cottoncracy
A dynamic religious movement launched by religious thinkers in the early 1800s.
Second Great Awakening
A runaway slave who wrote a best-selling narrative about his life as an enslaved man.
Frederick Douglass
He wrote a novel about a crazed ship captain chasing the whale that took his leg.
Herman Melville
Susan B. Anthony
Laws that kept enslaved African Americans from either running away or rebelling.
Slave Codes
A campaign against alcohol abuse that took shape in the late 1820s.
Temperance Movement
The most influential anti-slavery newspaper.
The Liberator
His gruesome stories about hearts underneath floorboards have enthralled horror fans for almost 200 years.
Edgar Allen Poe
A campaign for equal rights for women
Women's Rights Movement
This was known as swift growth of cotton
Boom
Peacefully disobeying laws they considered unjust.
Civil disobedience
A network of black and white abolitionists who secretly helped enslaved African Americans escape to freedom in the North or Canada.
The Underground Railroad
This Salem native wrote a novel about a Puritan woman forced to wear a red "A" on her clothing.
Nathaniel Hawthorne