Slavery
What is a name for the wealthy planters who made their money from cotton in the mid-1800s?
Cottonocracy
What is a person who wanted to end slavery?
Abolitionist
What are the views held by people, in general?
Public Opinion
What is an organized campaign to win legal, educational, employment, and other rights for women?
Women's Rights Movement
Individualism
What are laws that controlled the lives of enslaved Africans and African Americans and denied them basic rights?
Slave Codes
What is a network of abolitionists who secretly helped African Americans to escape to freedom?
Underground Railroad
What is an organized attempt to improve what is unjust or imperfect in society?
Social Reform
What is an 1848 meeting at which activists called for equal rights for women, often seen as the birthplace of the women's rights movement?
Seneca Falls Convention
What is one of a group of New England writers and thinkers who believed that the most important truths transcended, or went beyond, human reason?
Transcendentalist
What were the four cash crops of the South, and which was king?
Tobacco, rice, sugar, and cotton
Cotton was king
True or False: White slave holders were supportive of abolitionists in both the South and the North.
False
What machine made cotton processing and cleaning easier?
Cotton gin
Transcendentalists believed that people should not follow reason, but instead listen to what?
Intuition
True or False: Freed slaves struggled to find any level of success
False
What could happen to enslaved African American families?
They could be broken up by their owners
Who were Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison?
A prominent black abolitionist and a prominent white abolitionist
The South depended heavily on the North for what items?
Goods manufactured in factories
Transcendentalists thought nature was what, and that the human spirit reflected what?
Divine; Nature
Who was Ralph Waldo Emerson?
A prominent Transcendentalist author
How did the North and West inadvertently promote slavery?
Through commercial links with the south
Where was rice, sugar, and tobacco grown?
Where was cotton mostly grown?
The coastline of the South
The inland areas of the South
How did the factory industry in the South compare to the factory industry in the North?
It was much smaller
What other leaders did transcendentalists inspire?
MLK and Gandhi
What does each person have that they should follow?
An inner light