The Spirit of Reform
The philosophy emphasizing that people should go beyond logical thinking to reach true understanding, with the help of emotions and intuition
transcendentalism
Someone who supports ending slavery
abolitionist
The Seneca Falls Convention wrote a proposal for women's rights. On which document was it modeled?
Declaration of Independence
The dramatic change in economies and cultures brought about by the use of machines to do work formerly done by hand
industrial revolution
Who was at the bottom of the Southern social structure?
A revival of religious feeling and belief
the Second Great Awakening
1808
The Seneca Falls Convention was held in which year
1848
A large area of privately owned land where crops were grown through the labor of enslaved people or workers who lived on the land
plantation
During the 1800s, which group of Southerners dominated the politics and economy of the South?
rich white people who owned land and slaves, plantation owners
Could help Christians be saved
Leader of the Abolitionist Movement and The Publisher of The North Star
Frederick Douglass
The title of the proposal for women's rights
The Declaration of Sentiments
cotton gin
Land-owning white farmers, not plantation owners, made up the majority of
slave owners
The Second Great Awakening inspired many people to
improve society, oppose slavery
The Publisher of The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
Women started the movement after the World Anti-Slavery Convention because
they were excluded from speaking
Young girls who worked 12-15 hours in factories
Lowell Mill Girls
The set of laws controlling slaves
slave codes
Societies based on brotherly cooperation
model communities
Sisters inspired by religious reform movements to oppose slavery
The Grimke Sisters
Lucretia Mott and ___organized the movement for women's rights
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The economy of the south was based on which two things
cotton and slavery
Property, heredity, and race were the three core ideas of
slavery