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Chapter 16
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10/19/2008

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Eli Whitney
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invented the cotton gin in 1793, keeping slavery alive in the South
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Sir Walter Scott
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favorite author among the Southern aristocrats who helped them idealize a feudal society with them as the kings and queens and the slaves as their subjects
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King Cotton
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name for crop whose dominance led to a one-crop economy whose price level was at the mercy of world conditions
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin illustrating hardships of slavery
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Gabriel
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slave who led 1800 rebellion in Richmond, Virginia
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Denmark Vesey
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led 1822 Charleston rebellion
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Nat Turner
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semiliterate preacher who led 1831 revolt
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American Colonization Society
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founded in 1817 for the purpose of transporting blacks back to Africa
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Liberia
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republic founded in 1822 as a place for blacks to live
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Second Great Awakening
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provided support for abolitionism in the 1830s
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Theodore Dwight Weld
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inspired by Charles Grandison Finney; preached against slavery and wrote pamphlet, American Slavery As It Is
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William Lloyd Garrison
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January 1, 1831: published first edition of The Liberator
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The Liberator
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triggered a 30-year war of words and in a sense fired one of the first shots of the Civil War
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Wendell Phillips
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Boston patrician known as "abolition's golden trumpet" who refused to eat cane sugar or wear cotton cloth, since both were made by slaves
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David Walker
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black abolitionist who wrote Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in 1829 and advocated a bloody end to white supremacy
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Sojourner Truth
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freed Black woman who fought for black emancipation and women's rights
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Martin Delaney
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oen of the few people who reconsidered black relocation to Africa
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Frederick Douglass
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the greatest black abolitionist; an escaped black who was a great speaker and fought for the black cause despite being beaten and harassed
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peculiar institution
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slavery
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Gag Resolution
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passed by Southern House members in 1836 requiring all antislavery repeals to be tabled without debate, arousing the fire of northerners like John Quincy Adams
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Reverend Elijah P. Lovejoy
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Alton, Illinois; impugned chastity of Catholic women, had his printing press destroyed four times and was killed by a mob in 1837; became an abolitionist martyr
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