american pagent 13th addition chapters 14 15 16 Flashcards

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