Antebellum south
These individuals were at the top of the social structure in antebellum society.
Who is the planter aristocracy?
These skilled craftsmen would create goods out of raw materials.
What are artisans?
This religious movement abandoned Calvinist beliefs for a focus on individualism.
What is the Second great awakening?
This is the use of machines to manufacture goods in order to produce more.
What is industrialization?
This act would force Natives off their land and to the west of the Mississippi. Their migration would be known as the trail of tears.
What is the trail of tears?
This piece of fertile land stretches from Florida to Texas and was known for its large slave populations.
What is the Black Belt?
This was the most commonly manufactured good during the antebellum era.
What are textiles?
This meeting of women would call for equal rights and create a declaration of sentiments that parodied the declaration of independence.
What is the Seneca Falls convention?
These roads were owned by private companies and charged a fee to use.
What are turnpikes?
Jackson used this social scandal to remove much of his cabinet.
What is the Peggy Eaton Affair?
What is the gag rule?
The factory system stems from these mills in Massachusetts.
What are the Lowell Mills?
This region would be known as the burnt over district due to the excess of preachers speaking of brimstone and hellfire.
What is Western New York?
What is the Erie Canal?
This diverse party was unified by their hate for President Andrew Jackson.
Who are the Whigs?
Southerners referred to slavery as this to make it sound less evil.
What is the Peculiar institution?
This system of manufacturing would use different households to manufacture different parts of a product.
What is Putting out?
This system of govt was common in many American cities during the antebellum.
What is the Political Machine?
These boats were long and narrow. They would reduce the time of international travel.
What are clippers?
William Henry Harrison use this campaign to appeal to the American everyman.
What is the Log Cabin and Hard Cider Campaign?
What are slave rebellions?
In this system of manufacturing laborers would complete tasks at one central location where they would also assemble the final product.
What is Central Workshop?
This invention would drastically increase production on western farms.
What is the Mechanical Reaper?
This system of manufacturing was based around time and money. It also consisted of workers who would specialize in one trade.
What is the Wage System?
This law signed by Jackson stated that all govt. land sales must be paid for in gold or silver. It would result in the panic of 1837 because banks could not back up loans with precious metals.
What is the Specie Circular act?