Society and Inventions
Fast messaging system that used dots and dashes to represent different letters.
Telegraph (used morse code)
What literature did Southerners use to justify the use of slaves?
The Bible
The movement to end slavery
Abolition
Worked to improve public education
Horace Mann
The two largest immigrant groups between the 1830s-1860s
German and Irish
What is the difference between rural and urban slavery?
Rural: Slaves mostly worked long hours on plantations, were abused, and closely supervised
Urban: Worked in shops and factories as skilled laborers, and were less supervised
To improve society by changing laws, behaviors, or institutions.
Reform Movement
Led a slave rebellion killing about 60 people.
Nat Turner
Invented by John Deere
Steel Plow
What is debt slavery?
The period before war.
Antebellum
Escaped slave living in New York, was a writer that taught that freedom could be achieved through education and political activism.
Frederick Douglass
Invented by Elias Howe and improved by I.M. Singer
Sewing machine
What is chattel slavery?
Slaves being property who could be bought, sold, traded or inherited.
Belief that women’s role was in the home, focusing on family and household duties.
Cult of Domesticity
Opposed women's suffrage, but promoted equal access to education for women.
Catherine Beecher
This was the movement to get rid of alcohol.
The temperance movement
What was the myth invented by Southerners that attempted to put a positive spin on slavery?
The "happy slave". Slaves were well treated and pulled from savagery to live in a civilized society.
Passed in Congress in the 1830s that set aside petitions about ending slavery without discussion.
Gag Rule
These two sisters grew up owning slaves but ultimately became opposed to slavery and supported women's suffrage.
Angelina and Sarah Grimke