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| 553984372 | cotton kingdom | term for the south that emphasized its economic dependence on a single staple product | 1 | |
| 553984373 | lords of the loom | prosouthern new england textile owners who were economically tied to the southern lords of the lash | 2 | |
| 553984374 | sir walter scott | british novelist whose romantic vision of a feudal society made him highly popular in the south | 3 | |
| 553984375 | free blacks | the poor vulnerable group that was the object of prejudice in the north and depised as a third race in the south | 4 | |
| 553984376 | american slavery as it is | theodore dwight welds powerful antislavery book | 5 | |
| 553984377 | black belt | the area of the south where most slaves were held stretching from south carolina across the louisiana | 6 | |
| 553984378 | american colonization society | organization founded in 1817 to send blacks back to africa | 7 | |
| 553984379 | lane rebels | group of theology students led by theodore dwight weld who were expelled for abolitionist activity and later became leading preachers of the antislavery gospel | 8 | |
| 553984380 | the liberator | william lloyd garrisons fervent aolitionist newspaper that preached an immediate end to slavery | 9 | |
| 553984381 | american antislavery society | garrisonian abolitionist organization founded in 1833 that included the eloquent wendell phillips as a leader | 10 | |
| 553984382 | gag resolution | strict rule passed by prosouthern congressmen in 1836 to prohibit all discussion of slavery in the house of reps | 11 | |
| 553984383 | free soilers | northern antislavery politicans like lincoln who rejected radical abolitionism but sought to prohibit he expansion of slavery in the western territories | 12 | |
| 553984384 | harriet beecher stowe | author of an abolitionist novel that portrayed the separation of slave families by auction | 13 | |
| 553984385 | nat turner | visionary black preacher whose bloody slave rebellion in 1831 tightened the reins of slavery in the south | 14 | |
| 553984386 | liberia | west african republic founded in 1822 by freed blacks from the us | 15 | |
| 553984387 | theodore dwight weld | leader of the lane rebels who wrote the powerful antislavery work american slavery as it is | 16 | |
| 553984388 | lewis tappan | wealthy ny abolitionist merchant whose home was demolished by a mob in 1834 | 17 | |
| 553984389 | lane theological seminary | midwestern instituition whose president expelled 18 students for organizing a debate on slavery | 18 | |
| 553984390 | william lloyd garrison | leading radical abolitionist who burned the constitution as a covenant with death and an agreement with hell | 19 | |
| 553984391 | david walker | black abolitionist writer who called for a bloody end to slavery in an appeal of 1829 | 20 | |
| 553984392 | sojourner truth | ny free black woman who faught for emancipation and womens rights | 21 | |
| 553984393 | martin delany | black abolitionist who visited west africa in 1859 to examine sites where blacks might relocate | 22 | |
| 553984394 | frederick douglass | escaped slave amd great black abolitionist who fought to end slavery through political action | 23 | |
| 553984395 | virginia legislature | site of the last major southern debate over slavery and emancipation 1831-1832 | 24 | |
| 553984396 | john quincy adams | former president who fought for the right to discuss slavery in congress | 25 | |
| 553984397 | elijah lovejoy | illinois editor whose death at the hands of a mob made him an abolitionist martyr | 26 | |
| 554041938 | deism | liberal religious belief held by many of the founding fathers that stressed rationalism and moral behavior rather than christian revelation | 27 | |
| 554041939 | 2nd great awakening | religious revival that began on the frontier and swept eastward stirring an evangelical spirit in many areas of american life | 28 | |
| 554041940 | methodist and baptist | the 2 religious denominations that benefited from the evangelical revivals of the early nineteenth century | 29 | |
| 554041941 | mormons | religious group founded by joseph smith that eventually established a cooperative commonwealth in utah | 30 | |
| 554041942 | seneca falls convention | memorable 1848 meeting in ny where women made an appeal based on the dec of independence | 31 | |
| 554041943 | new harmony | commune established in new harmony indiana by scottish industrialist robert owen | 32 | |
| 554041944 | brook farm | intellectual comune in mass. based on plain living and high thinking | 33 | |
| 554041945 | monticello | jeffersons stately self designed home in virginia that became a model of american architecture | 34 | |
| 554041946 | knickerbockers | ny literary movement that drew on both regional and national themes | 35 | |
| 554041947 | transcendentalism | philosophical and literary movement centered in ne. that greatly influenced many american writers of the early 19th cent. | 36 | |
| 554041948 | civil disobedience | the doctrine promoted by american writer thoreau in an essay of the same name that later influenced gandhi and martin luther king jr | 37 | |
| 554041949 | leaves of grass | walt whitmans shocking collection of emotional poems | 38 | |
| 554041950 | scarlet letter | a disturbing ne. masterpiece about adultury and guilt in the old puritan era | 39 | |
| 554041951 | moby dick | the great but commercially unsuccessful novel about captain ahabs obsessive pursuit of a white whale | 40 | |
| 554041952 | little women | masterpiece of ne. writer louia may alcott | 41 | |
| 554041953 | dorothea dix | reformer who substantially improved conditions for the mentally ill | 42 | |
| 554041954 | brigham young | the mormon moses who led persecuted latter day saints to their promised land in utah | 43 | |
| 554041955 | elizabeth cady stanton | leading feminist who wrote the declaration of sentiments in 1848 and pushed for womens sufferage | 44 | |
| 554041956 | lucretia mott | quaker womens rights advocate who also strongly supported abolition of slavery | 45 | |
| 554041957 | emily dickinson | reclusive ne. poet who wrote about love death and immortality | 46 | |
| 554041958 | charles g finney | influential evangelica revivalist of the 2nd great awakening | 47 | |
| 554041959 | robert owen | idealistic scottish industrialist whose attempt at a communal utopia in the us failed | 48 | |
| 554041960 | john humphrey noyes | leader of a radical ny commune that practiced complex marriage and eugenic birth control | 49 | |
| 554041961 | mary lyon | pioneering womens educator founder of mount holyoke seminary in mass. | 50 | |
| 554041962 | louisa may alcott | novelist whose tales of family life helped economically support her own struggling transcendentalist family | 51 | |
| 554041963 | james fenimore cooper | path breaking american novelist who contrasted the natural person of the forest with the values of modern civilization | 52 | |
| 554041964 | ralph waldo emerson | second rate poet and philosopher but first rate promoter of transcendentalist ideals and american culture | 53 | |
| 554041965 | walt whitman | bold unconventional poet who celebrated american democracy | 54 | |
| 554041966 | edgar allen poe | eccentric southern born genius whose tales of mystery suffering and the supernatural departed from general american literary trends | 55 | |
| 554041967 | herman melville | ny writer whose romantic sea tales were more popular than his dark literary masterpiece | 56 | |
| 554111556 | ireland | nation where a potato famine in the 1840s led to a great migration of its people to america | 57 | |
| 554111557 | ancient order of hiberians | semisecre irish organization that became a benevolent society aiding irish immigrants in america | 58 | |
| 554111558 | 48ers | liberal german refugees who fled failed democratic revolutions and came to america | 59 | |
| 554111559 | know nothings | americans who protested and sometimes rioted against roman catholic immigrants | 60 | |
| 554111560 | industrial revolution | the transformation of manufacturing that began in britain about 1750 | 61 | |
| 554111561 | cotton gin | whitneys invention that enhanced cotton production and gave new life to black slavery | 62 | |
| 554111562 | limited liability | principle that permitted individual investors to risk no more capital in a business venture than their own share of a corporations stock | 63 | |
| 554111563 | telegraph | morses invention that provided instant communication across distance | 64 | |
| 554111564 | women and children | common source of early factory labor often underpaid whipped and brutally beaten | 65 | |
| 554111565 | unions | working peoples organizations often considered illegal under early american law | 66 | |
| 554111566 | mechanical reaper | mccormicks invention that vastly increased the productivity of the american grain farmer | 67 | |
| 554111567 | national road | the only major highway constructed by the fed gov before the civil war | 68 | |
| 554111568 | steamboat | fultons invention that made river transportation a two day affair | 69 | |
| 554111569 | erie canal | clintons big ditch that transformed transportation and economic life across the great lakes region from buffalo to chicago | 70 | |
| 554111570 | clippers | short lived american ships replaced by tramp steamers | 71 | |
| 554111571 | samuel slater | immigrant mechanic who initiated american industrialization by settin up his cotton spinning factory in 1791 | 72 | |
| 554111572 | eli whitney | yankee mechanical genius who revolutionized cotton production and created the system of interchangable parts | 73 | |
| 554111573 | elias howe | inventer of a machine that revolutionized the ready made clothing industry | 74 | |
| 554111574 | samuel morse | developed the first reliable system ofor instant communication across distance | 75 | |
| 554111575 | commonwealth v hunt | pioneering mass. supreme court decision that declared labor unions legal | 76 | |
| 554111576 | cyrus mccormick | inventor of the mechanical reaper that transformed grain growing into a buisness | 77 | |
| 554111577 | robert fulton | developer of a folly that made rivers two way streams of transportation | 78 | |
| 554111578 | cyrus field | wealthy ny manufacturer who laid the first temporary transatlantic cable in 1858 | 79 | |
| 554111579 | molly maguires | radical secret irish labor union of the 1860s and 1870s | 80 | |
| 554111580 | dewitt clinton | ny governor who built the erie canal | 81 |
