Vocab
to make change in order to bring about improvement, end abuses, or correct injustices
What does the word 'Reform' mean?
Inland from the sea lay a narrow, flat plain with a thin covering of rocky soil. Farming was not easy here, so many people turned to trade and crafts instead
What is the Geography of the North?
Black people that were used in doing tasks for other people
What are slaves?
were faced with many social and economic barriers, making their fight for abolition and equal rights all the more difficult.
What are women?
Slaves and more land
What two things did Rich Plantation Owners buy when they had money to spend?
to know or understand based on feeling, not facts
What does 'Intuition' mean?
plains dotted with swamps and marshes that were ideal for growing rice and sugarcane, which thrived in the warm, soggy soil. Indigo was grown on the dry land above the swamps, and tobacco and corn were farmed farther inland.
What is the Geography of the South?
A Famous Black Woman that helped many enslaved people through the underground railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
newly married, and had never spoken in public, they attended Troy Female Seminary, the nation’s first high school for girls, where they learned from their history studies that the United States did not treat women fairly.
Who was Stanton?
beating, whipping, branding, sexual violence, and other forms of torture
How did plantation Owners control their slaves?
a revival of religious feeling and belief from the 1800's to the 1840's
What does the term 'Second Great Awakening' mean?
based on agriculture, with lots of farming.
What is the Economy in the South?
Did not give them the ability to have rights nor education
What did enslaved people do to keep them control without beating them?
preached against enslavement in both White and Black churches, and they also helped Prudence Crandall try to find students for their school for African American girls.
Who is Mott?
Providing strict laws because slaves were getting out of hand
What did Rich Plantation Owners try to do when the slaves rebelled?
to obey established rules and patterns
What does 'Conform' mean?
Super cheap to deliver goods on boats, and steamboats
What is the Transportation in the South?
Plantation overseer
What were the Enslaved people most scared about?
nearly 300 people, including 40 men, arrived for the Seneca Falls Convention. While many were abolitionists, Quakers, or other reformers, some were local housewives, farmers, and factory workers.
What happened on July 18th, 1848
Beat up the person who tried to escape, most likely to death
What do plantation Owners do to show slaves not to escape?
a philosophy emphasizing that people should transcend, or go beyond, logical thinking to reach true understanding, with the help of emotions and intuition
What does 'Transcendentalism' mean?
Neither wealthy nor powerful, everyone was equal
What is the society in the North?
Slowing down using slow songs in rhythm, and not doing things government requested
What things did enslaved people do to protest?
control over their property and wages while Massachusetts and Indiana passed more liberal divorce laws.
What did New York give woman?
To not ruin the price of the slaves, because of beatings
Why do plantation owners not beat up slaves too much?