Study Notes for Chapter 14-15 Test

Lyman Beecher played a very important role as leading reformer in the temperance movement

The economic name where you arent rich but you arent poor is to be described as middle class

Romance about the southern life style was the main focus that southern writers wrote their novels about

Seneca Falls Convention held and launched the very first womens rights movement

Many of the slaves did the work in southern cities

Growing and harvesting cotton increased slave trade because it needed many people to do the jobs

Thomas Gallaudet played an important role during this time period for education, he was the founder of the first FREE U.S. school for hearing impaired students

Slave Traders from the north often sold free african americans back into slavery for some cash

The cotton gin was a unique machine that helped remove short staple cotton seeds that were an issue

Southern residents had huge love for their land

All children regardless of their backround history were educated and became known as the common school movement

Angelina and Sarah Grimke had many disagreements with their parents and led them to lead the anti-slavery movement

The Utopian community wanted nothing but perfect for their soceity on earth, they wanted to form a “perfect” life

Urban churches was the main lifestyle that African Americans centered upon

Many different cultural and religious backgrounds made many Native born American citizens feel threatened

A very famous book in 1863 written by Margret Fuller gave an idea about how slavery needed to end and the book was called Christian Women in the South

Horace Greenley made a huge splash in his stance In abolition that the New York Tribune wrote a paper about it

Societies formed like to American Temperance Society and the American Temperance UNion were great societies to limit or even stop people from the consumption of alcohol

Jemima Hunt played a special role in Virginia and buying her husbands freedom as a free African American

Yeomen had the idea of not wanting to work side by side with other slaves. They would rather do it themselves

Southern Farmers were so dependent on cotton that they started getting concerns about soil lasting long enough for the harvest year

The sweet spot of all the countries cotton ws named the cotton belt

Farmers who had very few slaves at all were called Yeomen

Racism, fear, and the souths economic dependence on slavery was a difficult goal to achieve for abolinistists emancipation

Eli Whitney was a big inventor and helped invent the cotton gin to help process cotton

The name of farmers who held many slaves were called planters

Stories that parents told their children to never forget where they came from were called folktales

One of the biggest fights was demanding immediate emancipation and racial equality for African Americans and the American Anti-Slavery Society started just that

Tennements is when a big group of people live in the same over-crowded and dirty building

The process to end slavery COMPLETELY became known as Abolition

Eli Whitney visited a Georgia plantation that helped him learn how to invent the cotton gin

Joseph R. ANdersoin graduated from west point and had a very successful iron works factory