1830s-1840s Antebellum Era

King Cotton

power and influence of cotton

Positive Good

Reaction to abolition agitation. Argued slavery was beneficial to all involved.

Wage Slavery

The idea that one lost independence working for others

Silent Sabotage

Slaves most effective form of resistance

Down River

Selling slaves further South, especially after the invention of the cotton gin.

Eli Whitney

Inventor of cotton gin and interchangeable parts

Cotton Gin

Led to a dramatic increase in the demand of slaves.

Turner's Rebellion

Most violent slave insurrection in U.S. history.

Market Revolution

The shift from independent economies to interdependent economies. Led to specialization. Adopted largely in North.

Textiles

First industry.

Lowell Mills

Most famous factories. Employed young women.

transportation revolution

linked the country together, especially north and west.

Internal Improvements

infrastructure including roads and canals.

Demographic changes

movement west, to cities, to America

Income inequality

unintended consequence of the market revolution.

HRS PICT

Example of Hudson River School

Ain't I

Abolitionist / Women's rights propoganda

Temp car

Used by Temperance advocates

Free Black Communities

faced discrimination, but built independent institutions like churches.

Second Great Awakening

Religious revival that stressed social reform

Perfectionism

Belief that mankind could be markedly improved.

Horace Mann

Founder of American public education

Dorothea Dix

Worked for improved conditions for mental health treatment.

Transcendentalists

America's most influential intellectuals for a century. Stressed self reliance

Henry David Thoreau

Known for Walden Pond and Civil Disobedience.

Temperance

The most successful reform movement. Attempted to limit alcohol consumption.

Cult of Domesticity

argued for women's special sphere of influence.

Seneca Falls / Declaration of Sentiments

Origins of American women's rights movement.

Abolition Movement

minority movement in the North which argued for an end of slavery.

Garrison's Liberator

Uncompromising new approach to abolition.

Frederick Douglass

The former slave who proved to be the most eloquent and forceful abolitionist.