Ch.13-14 Flashcards
Who was Benjamin Baneker?
An expert surveyor and mathematician who contributed to science,medicine,and politics. He also wrote a popular almanac that included anti-slavery essays
Who was William Wells Brown?
The first African American novelist and playwright
Where were most free slaves located?
North
Who was Lewis Temple?
Invented the harpoon which was the most important invention in whaling
What kind of discrimination did the blacks face?
Couldn’t vote,serve on juries,or become judges or law officers. They were banned from going to certain schools and forced to enjoy their entertainment in segregated areas
Who was Daniel A. Payne?
Established a school for free slaves with a curriculum that taught math,history,English,and literature
What were the effects of the cotton gin?
Farmers harvested more cotton,created the northern cotton industry,and increased demand for slave labor
Who invented the cotton gin? What did it do?
Eli Whitney;separated the seeds from the cotton fiber
Explain a slave’s lifestyle
Ate simple food:corn,pork fat,molasses
(They could own a small vegetable garden if they wanted one)
They were allowed to fish and hunt
Wore sufficient work clothes:overalls,cotton or wool shirts,heavy work shoes,and a hat They had small one room shacks without glass windows(did have windows) and had a dirt floor
What was slavery known as?
Peculiar institution
How did the southern white try to justify slavery?
They said the southern slaves had better living conditions than the ones in the north. They also said they were vital to the national economy and lived better than free blacks
What were some of the resources the abolitionists used to argue their beliefs?
Quoted the Declaration said slavery was contrary to American principles and put forth religious arguments that all humans are equal in the eyes of God
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
An editor of Lundy’s newspaper who began his own paper(The Liberator)and founded the AASS
Who was Benjamin Lundy?
A saddle maker who was a Quaker who opposed slavery and published the anti-slavery newspaper called The Genius of Emancipation(freedom)
Who was Nat Turner?
He was a very religious man who murdered 57 people before being captured in Virginia
There was the Nat Turner’s rebellion which caused the creation of stricter laws on blacks from being educated
Who was Paul Cuffe?
Free black abolitionist who favored sending the free back to Africa as a means of freedom from bondage
What was the Underground Railroad?
An informal organization that helped slaves make their way to Canada
Who was Harriet Tubman?
Former slave who became a conductor of the Underground Railroad and helped about 300 gain freedom
Who was Fredrick Douglas?
Former slave who became a abolitionist who worked with Garrison. He delivered powerful speeches and essays that gave insight into the evils of slavery
What were some of the rights women didn’t have?
Voting,hold public office,or sit in juries
What did they learn?
Did not go to college or high school or have a interesting career- they trained to become mothers and housewives
Who was Elizabeth Blackwell?
First women licensed to practice medicine in the US
Who was Antoinette Blackwell?
First women to be an ordained minister
Who was Sara Hale?
Became an editor of the women magazines Godey’s Lady’s Book
Who was Sarah Grimke?
Argued for equal education opportunities and equal pay for equal work
What was Seneca Falls Convention?
First public meeting about women’s rights in the US and write the declaration of sentiments
Who was Lucy Stone?
Gifted speaker
Who was Susan B. Anthony?
Strong organizer who believed women could perform male professions in religion and law, and wanted to charge property rights of women
Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
Wrote documents and speeches for the movement, formed the National Women Suffrage Association
How was children education divided?
Rich received private education while the poor received public education
What was the Common School Movement?
Horace Mann led the movement to teach all children in a common place
What did Samuel Gidey Howe do?
Opened the Perkins School for the blind
What did Thomas Gallaudet do?
Founded the first free American school for the hearing impaired
What was the importance of the Oberlin College?
First to accept blacks
What were transcendentalists?
Believed people should depend on themselves rather than outside authorities
Name three transcendentalists.
Ralph Waldo,Magarget Fuller,and Henry David Thoreau
What were some of the different Christian denominations?
Baptists,Methodists,Presbyterian(they grew greatly in the second great awakening)
Who was Charles Grandinson Finney?
Taught each individual was responsible for their salvation and that sin was available
What was the temperance movement?
Wanted to prevent alcohol abuse,alcohol causing problems like family violence,poverty,and criminal behavior
Who was Nathaniel Hawthorne?
Wrote The Scarlet Letter exploring Puritan life in the 1600s
Who was Herman Melville?
Wrote Moby Dick
Who was Edgar Allan Poe?
Short story writer,usually grim; wrote Tall Tale Heart
What was the American Colonization Society?(AOC)
A group of people who thought slavery was bad for the country. They purchased land in Africa for former slaves to settle on(Liberia)and supported sensed the free African Americans back to Africa
