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CH. 13-14 ⊙﹏⊙ Flashcards

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Who was William Lloyd Garrison?

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  • Wrote The Liberator
  • Editor of Lundy’s newspaper
  • Founded American Anti-Slavery Society
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Who was Benjamin Lundy?

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  • saddle maker
  • Quaker
  • opposed slavery
  • newspaper called Genius of Emancipation
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Who was Nat Turner?

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  • very religious
  • murdered 57 people
  • was captured in Virginia
    • capture led to stricter laws on slavery education
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Who was Paul Cuffe?

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  • free slave
  • abolitionist
  • favored the idea of sending free slaves back to Africa
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5
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Who was Harriet Tubman?

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  • former slave

* conductor of the Underground Railroad

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What was the Underground Railroad?

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informal organization that helped slaves make their way to Canada

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What did Transcendentalists believe?

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people should depend on themselves rather then on outside authorities

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Who were three Transcendentalists?

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson,
  • Margaret Fuller
  • Henry David
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Who was Charles Grandison Finney?

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taught people that they were responsible for their salvation and that sin was available

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10
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What was the Temperance Movement?

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people wanted to prevent alchohol

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Who was Nathaniel Hawthorne?

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wrote the Scarlet Letter exploring Puritan life in the early 1600s

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12
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Who was Herman Melville?

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wrote Moby Dick

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13
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Who was Edger Allen Poe

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  • wrote short stories
    • usually grim
  • wrote A Tale Tell Heart
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What profession did most most women have at this time?

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mothers and wives

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Who was Antoinette Brown Blackwell?

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•1st women to be an ordained minister

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16
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Who was Sara Hale?

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became writer of the women’s magazine “Godey’s Lady’s Book”

17
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Who was Elizabeth Blackwell?

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became 1st women licensed to practice medicine in the US

18
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What did Sarah Grimke argue for?

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equal education opportunities and equal pay for equal work

19
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What was the Seneca Falls convention?

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First public meeting about women’s rights in the US

20
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Who was Lucy Stone?

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a gifted speaker

21
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Who was Susan B. ANthony?

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  • strong organizer

* believed women could preform male professions in religion and law

22
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What kind of education did poor kids receive?

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public school education

23
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What did Horace Mann lead?

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the movement to teach all children in a common place

24
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What did Samuel Gridley Howe open?

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Perkins School for Blind

25
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What did Thomas Gallaudet found?

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1st free American School for the hearing impaired people

26
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What was the first college to accept African American students?

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Oberlin College

27
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What was the American Colonization Society?

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Group of Americans who supported the idea fo sending African Americans back to Africa

28
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Who was Benjamin Banneker?

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  • former slave
  • expert surveyor and mathematician
  • contributed to science, medicine, and politics
  • wrote an almanac
29
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Who was William Wells Brown?

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First African American novelist and playwriter

30
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Where were most free African Americans located?

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North

31
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Who was Lewis Temple?

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former slave who invented harpoon for whaling

32
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Who was Daniel A. Payne?

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established a school for free African American slaves

33
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What were the effects of the cotton gin?

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  • it was now grown all over the south
  • increased need for slave labor
  • created northern cotton clothe industry
34
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Who invented the cotton gin? What did it do?

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  • Eli Whitney

* made it easier to separate fiber from cotton seeds

35
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What was slavery known as?

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peculiar institution

36
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How did southern whites try to justify slavery?

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the slaves lived better then factory workers since they didnt have to worry about food, housing, etc.

37
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What were some resources abolitionists used to argue their beliefs?

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Declaration fo Independence

Religious beliefs

38
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Explain how slaves ate, what they wore, and how they lived.

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  • ate not balanced meals, owned small vegetable gardens, hunted small animals
  • wore overalls, woolen shirts, heavy work shoes, a hat
  • lived in single room houses, open windows, mostly dirt floors, poorly furnished
39
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What does Emancipation mean?

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Freedom

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