APUSH Unit 4 Part 2

market revolution

the expansion of places one could sell products to in the early 1800s

Lowell mills

textile factories dominated by female labor

separate spheres

the middle-class concept that a woman's place was within the home and that men should dominate public life

cult of domesticity

the middle-class idea that women should be pious, pure, domestic, and submissive

Transcendentalism

literary movement meant to evoke emotion and challenge materialism

Hudson River School of Art

artistic movement meant to evoke emotion and challenge materialism

Second Great Awakening

religious re-birth of the early 19th century

Joseph Smith

he started the Mormon faith within the context of the Second Great Awakening

Horace Mann

one of the first advocates of tax-supported public schools

Dorothea Dix

she helped create mental asylums and to remove the mentally ill from prisons

American Temperance Society

organization that sought to ban alcohol

American Colonization Society

wanted to relocate slaves to Africa

American Anti-Slavery Society

called for immediate abolition of slavery; published The Liberator

William Lloyd Garrison

leader of the American Anti-Slavery Society

Seneca Falls

place where the 1st women's rights convention met

Nat Turner

led the largest (unsuccessful) slave rebellion in 1831

antebellum

means "before the war"; or before the Civil War