Ch. 8, 9, And 11 Flashcards
An idea linked to republicanism where Mother’s we’re responsible for teaching their children the values of society like voting
Republican Motherhood
One of the most prominent free blacks to emerge during the revolutionary period
Prince Hall
A society that was against slavery, would buy land in Africa and get free blacks there (established Liberian colony)
American Colonization Society
A series of religious revivals starting in 1801 based on Methodists and Baptism
Second Great Awakening
Gabriel Posser gathered 1,000 rebellious slaves outside Richmond
Prosser’s Uprising
British mechanic that invented the first American machine for spinning cotton
Samuel Slater
Lowell opened a chaperoned boarding house for girls who worked in his factory
Waltham Plan
Machines that made parts for other machines
Machine tools
American inventor who developed the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that labor unions were not illegal conspiracies
Commonwealth vs. hunt
The first highway built entirely with federal funds
National Road
A canal in NY, US, that runs from the Hudson River to Lake Erie, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean
Erie Canal
Governor of NY who started the Erie Canal project
DeWitt Clinton
Installed a steam engine and created the first steamboat
Robert Fulton
Founder of “John Deere and Company”, the largest manufacturer of agricultural equipments in the world
John Deere
Many members of the middle class and their congregational and Presbyterian ministers launched programs of social reform known as this
Benevolent Empire
A fore runner of evangelicals who thought that all were able to be saved as god made them free of morals; preacher
Charles G. Finney
Evangelicals gained control on the American Temperance Society and employed methods that had worked well in the revivals; led to the 18th movement which banned alcohol
Temperance Movement
A philosophy pioneered by Ralph W. Emerson in the 1830s and 40s in which each person has direct communication with God and Nature, and there is no need for organized churches
Transcendentalism
A leading transcendentalist emphasizing freedom and self-reliance in essays which still make him a force today
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A transcendentalist and friend of Emerson; wrote Walden and Life in the Woods
Henry David Thoreau
He broke away from his traditional forms and content of New England poetry by describing the life of working Americans
Walt Whitman
A transcendentalist Utopian Experiment put into practice by transcendentalist former Unitarian minister George Ripley
Brook Farm
American Utopian Socialist; founder of Oneida Community
John Humphrey Noyes
Founded the Mormon religion after reporting that he was visited by an angel and given gold plates in 1840
Joseph Smith
The successor of the Mormons after the death of Joseph Smith
Brigham Young
In support for a complete, immediate, and uncompensated end to slavery
Abolitionism
A free black from Boston who published his Appeal in 1829, advocating a black rebellion to crush slavery
David Walker
Rebellion in which Nat Turner led a group of slaves trough Virginia In an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow and kill planter families
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
A radical who founded The Liberator, an abolitionist paper in Boston 1881
William Lloyd Garrison
An abolitionist student at the Lane Theological Seminary
Theodore Dwight Weld
Touched New England by lecturing against slavery in 1837
Grimke Sisters
An organized in-opposition to slavery founded in 1833; abolitionists as a political party
American Anti-Slavery Society
A New England teacher and author who spoke against the inhumane treatment of insane prisoners
Dorothea Dix
Women and even some men went to discuss the rights and conditions of women
Seneca Falls Conference
A member of the women’s’ rights movement in 1840; advocated for women’s suffrage
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A Quaker who attended an anti-slavery convention in 1840 and her party of women was not recognized; called the first women’s rights convention
Lucretia Molt
