Terms 81-90 Flashcards
“The American Scholar”
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Seneca Falls Declaration
“Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions” “all men and women are created equal.” Main issue was desire for suffrage
Hudson River School
Frederic Church, Thomas Doughty, and Asher Durand. Painted unsettled Hudson Valley
Minstrel Shows
Plays in which white actors mimicked and ridiculed blacks
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Written by Harriet Beacher Stowe. Brought to the North’s attention the wretchedness of slavery
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Douglass split Nebraska into two states: Kansas would be slave, Nebraska would be free
Bleeding Kansas
Border “ruffians” (pro-slavery Missourians), Potowattame Massacre, John Brown
Dred-Scott Decision
Slaves were property and could not file suits
Yeomen Farmers
Small landowners (the majority of white families in the south) who farmed their own land and usually did not own slaves
Hinton R. Helper
Book entitled ‘Impending Crisis of the South’ that stirred trouble. Attempted to prove that indirectly the non-slave holding whites were the ones who suffered the most from slavery; the book was banned in the South but countless copies were distributed as campaign material for republicans