Lesson 20
She devoted her life to helping the imprisoned.
What did Dorethea Dix do?
Short growing seasons, long winters, and lots of hills and vast forests.
What is the geography of the North?
Work slowly, break tools, steal food.
What are examples of quietly rebelling?
Factories and Manufacturing.
How did the North make money?
Agriculture.
How did the South make money?
A person that is against slavery.
What is a abolitionist?
Long hot humid summers, short mild winters, and large plains, swamps and marshes.
What is the geography of the South?
Rejecting orders, refusing to work, struck back.
What are examples of open defiance?
They faced racial segregation and discrimination.
How were African Americans in the North still treated poorly?
Increased the need of slaves.
What effect did the cotton gin have on the South?
They were denied the right to vote and could not speak in public events.
What rights were denied by women?
Steam Railroads.
What connected the Midwest and the Northeast?
Playing instruments, sewing quilts, dancing, socializing.
What would slaves do on Sundays?
How did the U.S. build it's national road?
The economy depended on agriculture and they didn't want to be at the bottom of the social level.
Why did poor white farmers still vote for slavery?
An optimism to question society through transcendentalism.
What was the Second Great Awakening?
Steam Powered River-Boats.
What was the most efficient way of travel in the South.
Slaves were able to find comfort in each other and joy in life.
How did invisible churches help enslaved people with their suffering.
They were more likely to take lower paying jobs because they needed money.
How were the Irish and other immigrants treated differently?
Cotton was the most profitable crop.
A philosophy that people should transcend or go beyond.
What is transcendentalism?
They were Roman Catholics.
Why were the Irish Discriminated against?
Nat Turner and a group of African Americans killed 55 white men.
What did Nat Turners rebellion do?
The Steam powered Locomotive by railroad.
What was the most efficient way of travel in the North?
The Steamboat by river.
What was the most efficient way of travel in the South?