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How many million Americans were there by 1850? How many regularly attended church? |
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NAME THAT MAN de Tocqueville |
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French visitor to America, observed that America was really influenced by religion |
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Name two things that helped wipe out old orthodoxy, encourage liberal ideas about religion |
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French Revolution, Thomas Paine's "Age of Reason" |
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-science, reason -NOT personal revelation, the Bible -believed in Supreme Being -gave us capacity for moral power -rejected Christ's divinity |
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-God is just the father; not son/holy spirit -stressed goodness of human nature -free will, salvation through good deeds(not predestination) -Emerson = example |
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Define: the Second Great Awakening's camp meetings |
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In 1800: -as many as 25,000 people listened to hellfire preaching, drank -Boosted church membership -caused humanitarian reforms -" missionary work for NAs, Hawaiians, Asians |
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Which denomination(s) got the biggest boost in membership from the SGA? Why? |
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Methodists and Baptists, stressed personal conversion |
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NAME THAT MAN: Peter Cartwright |
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-Methodist circuit rider" -beat up those who tried to break up meetings -preached for 50 yrs |
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traveling frontier features |
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NAME THAT MAN: Charles Grandison Finney |
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-former lawyer -Presbyterian preacher -mass converter in Rochester, NYC -made "anxious benches" -encouraged women to pray in public -against alcohol, slavery -served as president of Oberlin |
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What were six effects of the SGA? |
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-shattered/reorganized churches -new sects (evangelicalism led to increased support for...) -prison reform -temperance -women's rights/feminism of religion -abolitionism |
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Describe the "feminism of religion" in greater detail (3) |
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-esp middle class women took a more active role in pushing for religion -would stay converted when preachers left -ambivalence abt shift to market economy fueled this |
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-Where is the "burned over district"? -Why is it called so? -What religion was founded there? |
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-Western NY -descendants of Puritans lived there and endured so much hellfire preaching -Adventists/Millerites |
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-How many Adventists existed in the burned over district? -Who was a leader in the religion? -What was their main belief? |
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-700,000 -Wm Miller -Jesus was scheduled to come on 10/22/1844 |
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What 4 religions tended to be wealthier/more educated at the time of the SGA? |
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-Episcopalians -Presbyterians -Congregationalists -Unitarians |
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What types of religions were not as educated/wealthy as some other religions around the SGA? |
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Methodists, Baptists, new sects |
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Which 3 religions split into N/S over the slavery debate? |
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-Methodists -Baptists -Presbyterians |
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NAME THAT MAN: Joseph Smith |
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-got golden plates from an angel -deciphered them and got the Book of Mormon -AKA Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) -voted, drilled militia as a unit -accusations of polygamy arose -murdered by IL mob |
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NAME THAT MAN: Brigham Young |
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-Mormon Moses -led Mormons to Utah w/ "Come, Come, Ye Saints" -frontier theocracy -FIFTY-FUCKING-SIX CHILDREN -was made territorial governor -federal army marched against his Mormons |
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-Who did tax-supported public schools originally educate? -Why did public sentiment about these schools change? |
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-poor -realized that not educating poor made them an ignorant rabble, and manhood-suffrage democracy |
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describe early public schools |
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-little red schoolhouse -few mo. a year -teachers not really qualified -more "lickin'" than "larnin" -"readin" "ritin" and "rithmetic" |
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NAME THAT MAN: Horace Mann |
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-Brown U alumni -MA Board of Ed Sec (wanted...) -better schoolhouses -longer school terms -higher teacher salaries -expanded curricula |
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how many secondary schools existed by 1860? |
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how many white illiterates existed by 1860? |
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NAME THAT MAN: Noah Webster |
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-"the schoolmaster of the Republic" -Yale alumni -made textbooks for reading, patriotism -made dictionary |
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NAME THAT MAN: Wm H McGuffey |
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-Ohioan teacher-preacher -made "McGuffey's readers" -blended morality, patriotism, idealism |
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How many McGuffey's readers were sold? |
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-Why were the liberal arts colleges that were founded after the SGA REALLY made? -what were their curricula focused on? |
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-local pride -Latin/Greek/math/philosophy |
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What was the first state college to be made? |
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What was so special about the U of VA? |
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-Jefferson's brainchild -no religious/political associations -focuses on modern languages/sciences |
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why did people not want women to be educated? (according to Bailey) |
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-frivolous -"injured female brain, undermined health, made her unfit for marriage" |
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NAME THAT WOMAN: established Troy Female Seminary, helped build rep of women's colleges |
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In 1835/7, what college admitted blacks/women? |
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NAME THAT WOMAN: Established Mt. Holyoke Seminary in MA |
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What were two long-lasting magazines in the nineteenth century? |
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-North American Review -Godey's Lady's Book |
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How did debt imprisonment diminish during the nineteenth century? |
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V/F: criminal codes/punishments/capital offenses reduced w/ the Crimean War |
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-falsum -ENLIGHTENMENT Europe |
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NAME THAT WOMAN: reformed mental institutions, changed mindset that patients were not willfully deranged but mentally ill |
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-formed American Peace Society -set back by Crimean War, Amer Civil War |
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-formed American Peace Society -set back by Crimean War, Amer Civil War |
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What led to a surge of alcoholism in the nineteenth century? * What were the effects? |
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-custom -hard/monotonous lives * -decreased labor efficiency, safety/spiritual welfare of family |
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When did the American Temperance Society form? |
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Name: children's temperance society |
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What was the name of T.S. Arthur's famous book on temperance? What was it about? |
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-Ten Nights in a Barrom and What I saw There -once-happy village ruined by Samuel Slade's tavern |
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NAME THAT MAN: Neal S. Dow |
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-"Father of Prohibition" -made temperance law in Maine -Maine Law of 1851 -A dozen northern states followed (didn't work all that well) |
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V/F: Rape was not a capital punishment in America |
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By the civil war, _% of women remained "spinsters" |
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What effect did the market economy have on women's rights? |
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-more sharply defined gender roles; women were keepers of the nation's social conscience, and were responsible for teaching such to society, while men were strong/crude, had to be guided by loving ladies |
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v/f: catharine beecher stressed the role of a good homemaker |
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NAME THAT WOMAN: "sprightly Quaker whose ire had been aroused when she and her fellow female delegates were not recognized at the London antislavery convention of 1840" |
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NAME THAT WOMAN: insisted on leaving "obey" out of marriage ceremony, championed women's suffrage |
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NAME THAT WOMAN: "Quaker reared...militant lecturer for women's rights, fearlessly exposed herself to rotten garbage and vulgar epithets" |
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-Susan B Anthony (followers were called "Suzy Bs" |
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NAME THAT WOMAN Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell |
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-first woman to graduate from medical school |
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NAME THAT WOMAN: Margaret Fuller |
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-edited "The Dial," a transcendentalist journal -"took part in bringing unity and republican gov't to Italy" |
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NAME THOSE WOMEN Sarah and Angelina Grimké |
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NAME THAT WOMAN: Lucy Stone |
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retained her name after her marriage |
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NAME THAT WOMAN: Amelia Bloomer |
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revolted against confining clothes, wore shorter skirt, turkish style trousers called "bloomers" |
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-Where was the first Women's Rights Convention held? -Describe the document that was made there |
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-Seneca Falls, NY -Declaration of Sentiments: argued that "all men and women are created equal" also argued for suffrage |
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NAME THAT MAN: Robert Owen |
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formed a communal society of abt 1,000 people in New Harmony, Indiana |
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-MA -communal society of abt 20 transcendentalists -lasted for 5 yrs until fire destroyed it (debt) -inspired Hawthorne's "The Blithedale Romance" |
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Describe: Oneida Community |
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-NY -lasted 30 yrs -made superior steel traps, plates practiced... -free love ("Complex marriage") -birth control through coitus reservatus -eugenics |
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-among longest-lived sects -started by Mother Anne Lee -prohibited sex and marriage -died out by 1940 |
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V/F: Hamilton won a gold medal for inventing a new plow |
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NAME THAT MAN: Matthew Maury |
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NAME THAT MAN: Nathaniel Bowditch |
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mathematician who wrote about practical navigation |
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V/F: when it came to science, Americans largely relied on European findings |
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NAME THAT MAN: Professor Benjamin Silliman |
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-chemist, geologist -Yale professor |
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NAME THAT MAN: Louis Agassiz |
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-distinguished French immigrant -Harvard professor -biologist -didn't like memorization, did like original research |
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-Columbus of American botany |
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NAME THAT MAN: John J Audobon |
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-french naturalist -wrote/illustrated "Birds of America" |
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In 1793 a yellow fever epidemic occurred where? |
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V/F: bleeding, rubbing tumors with dead toads, and tooth extraction via blacksmith were treatments in this era |
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What man (last name) made the famous "Infallible Worm Destroying Lozenges?" |
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NAME THAT MAN: Sylvester Graham |
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made whole-wheat bread and crackers regimen that was supposed to be healthy |
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In 1840, what two anesthetics were invented? |
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From 1820-1850, THIS type of architecture was rejuvenated, while in 1850, THIS type of architecture was rejuvenated |
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Name two of Jefferson's pretty architectural contributions |
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-Monticello -University of VA @ Charlottesville (quadrangle) |
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-many couldn't afford to sit/pay for portraits -raw civilization/absence of leisure -Puritans thought it was a sinful waste of time |
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NAME THAT MAN: Edward Everett |
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eminent Boston scholar who put a statue of Apollo in the home of John Adams |
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NAME THAT MAN: Gilbert Stuart |
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spendthrift Rhode Island painter of George Washington |
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NAME THAT MAN Charles William Peale |
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painted Washington as well |
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NAME THAT MAN John Trumbull |
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painted Revolutionary War scenes |
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During the nationalistic upsurge after the War of 1812, American painters turned increasingly from THIS subject to THIS subject What school was an example of this? |
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human landscapes to romantic mirrorings of local landscapes -Hudson River School |
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NAME THAT MAN Thomas Coole |
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American landscape painter |
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What was the name of an early crude photograph made by a Frenchman? |
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What was the name of the type of show that featured white American actors w/ blackened faces? |
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What is the name of a minstrel show that was later adopted by the Confederates as their battle hymn? |
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NAME THAT MAN Stephen C. Forester |
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-contributed to American folk music by capturing spirit of the slaves -published "Old Folks at Home" |
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What were "praiseworthy American literary efforts"? (3) |
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-The Federalist (Hamilton) -Common Sense (Paine) -Daniel Webster's orations -Ben Franklin's autobiography |
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Define: The Knickerbocker Group |
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collection of three men, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and William Cullen Bryant, who were American pioneers in the literary fields of general literature |
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NAME THAT MAN: Washington Irving |
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wrote -"Knickerbocker's History of New York," -"The Sketch Book" -"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
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NAME THAT MAN: James Fenimore Cooper |
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made American themes respectable, wrote "The Last of the Mohicans" and "The Leatherstocking Tales" |
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NAME THAT MAN: Wm Cullen Bryant |
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-wrote "Thanatopsis" (high-quality American poem) -edited "New York Evening Post" |
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What city called itself the "Athens of America?" |
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What caused the transcendentalist movement? |
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-liberalizing of the straightjacket Puritan theology, -German romantic philosophers, and -Asian religions |
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who delivered the speech called "The American Scholar" |
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who wrote "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" |
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who wrote "Leaves of Grass" |
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who is the "Poet Laureate of Democracy" |
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NAME THAT MAN: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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-taught modern languages @ Harvard -popular American poet wrote... -Song of Hiawatha -Evangeline -The Courtship of Miles Standish |
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NAME THAT MAN: John Greenleaf Whittier |
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-fighting Quaker (sort of) -poet laureate of antislavery movement |
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NAME THAT MAN: James Russel Lowell |
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-poet -political satirist -wrote "Biglow Papers", esp. abt Mexican War, slavery expansion |
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NAME THAT MAN: Dr. Olivier Wendell Holmes |
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-taught anatomy @ Harvard Med School -wrote "The Last Leaf" -among Boston intellectualists |
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NAME THAT WOMAN: Louisa May Alcott |
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NAME THAT WOMAN: Emily Dickinson |
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wrote peoms abt nature, love, and death |
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NAME THAT MAN: Wm Gilmore Simms |
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"Cooper of the South" wrote about south, role in rev. war |
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who wrote the modern detective novel "The Gold Bug" |
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Who were the two writers that reflected the continuing Calvinist obsession w/ original sin and the never ending struggle between good and evil? |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville |
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who wrote "The Marble Faun" |
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Who wrote abt Captain Ahab? |
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NAME THAT MAN: George Bancroft |
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-founded the Naval Academy at Annapolis -wrote superpatrotic history of the United States |
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NAME THAT MAN: William H Prescott |
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wrote about conquests of Mexico and Peru |
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NAME THAT MAN: Francis Parkman |
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chronicled struggle between France and Britain in colonial times for the mastery of North America |
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Why was slavery good for the north |
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more specifically, the cotton trade: the northern shippers got to trade w/ England for money for manufactured goods |
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The South was burdened with ____, ____, and _____. |
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The South was burdened with depressed prices, unmarketable goods, and over-cropped lands. |
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Which section of the country believed WHAT foreign nation would help them in war? |
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The South believed that since England was so dependent on them that, if civil war was to ever break out, England would support the South that it so heavily depended on. |
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Who was a favorite Southern aristocrat author? Why? |
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a favorite author among them was Sir Walter Scott, author of Ivanhoe, who helped them idealize a feudal society with them as the kings and queens and the slaves as their subjects. |
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How did the plantation system shape the lives of southern women? |
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-Mistresses of the house commanded a sizable household of mostly female slaves who cooked, sewed, cared for the children, and washed things. -Mistresses could be kind or cruel, but all of them did at one point or another abuse their slaves to some degree; there was no “perfect mistress.” |
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The economic structure of the South became increasingly monopolistic because .... |
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The economic structure of the South became increasingly monopolistic because as land ran out, smaller farmers sold their land to the large estate owners. |
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What economical practices plunged many farmers into debt? |
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Also, the temptation to over-speculate in land and in slaves caused many planters to plunge deep into debt. |
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Why were slaves sort of a risky purchase? |
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Slaves were valuable, but they were also a gamble, since they might run away or be killed by disease. |
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Why did the South resent the North? |
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-Southerners resented the Northerners who got rich at their expense while they were dependent on the North for clothing, food, and manufactured goods. -The South repelled immigrants from Europe, who went to the North, making it richer. |
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Beneath the southern aristocrats were... |
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-farming families w/ one/two/family of slaves...very similar to north, but with slaves |
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How did slaveless whites live? What did they call the aristocratic class? |
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-raised corn and hogs (subsistence, NOT cotton) -snobocracy |
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what were two common diseases among slaveless whites? Why did they support slavery? |
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-hookworm, malnutrition
-still wanted to own them someday -liked being above blacks |
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Northern Blacks were especially hated by the _____. Why? |
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Northern Blacks were especially hated by the Irish, with whom they competed for jobs. |
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Anti-black feeling was stronger in the ____, where people liked ____ but not ____, than in the ____, were people liked the _____, but not the _____. |
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Anti-black feeling was stronger in the North, where people liked the race but not the individual, than in the South, were people liked the individual (with whom they’d often grown up), but not the race. |
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Name an example of blacks being unpopular in the North |
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as several states denied their entrance, most denied them the right to vote and most barred them from public schools. |
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V/F: freed slaves would buy their own slaves |
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Describe the typical free Southern slave |
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-influenced by "all men are created equal" ideologies -In the deep South, they were usually mulattoes (Black mother, White father who was usually a master) freed when their masters died. |
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Although slave importation was banned in ____, _________ occurred |
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Although slave importation was banned in 1808, smuggling of them continued due to their high demand and despite death sentences to smugglers |
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The slave increase (__ million by 1860) was mostly due to their ______ How large was the increase? |
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The slave increase (4 million by 1860) was mostly due to their natural reproduction. Quadrupled |
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Describe the difference and reason for it between Irish and black work |
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Slaves were an investment, and thus were treated better and more kindly and were spared the most dangerous jobs, like putting a roof on a house, draining a swamp, or blasting caves...this was for Irishmen |
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____, ____, _____, ____, and _____ accounted for half of all slaves in the South. |
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South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana accounted for half of all slaves in the South. |
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What was a concern of letting blacks vote? |
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Slavery also created majorities or near-majorities in the Deep South |
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Some women were promised freedom after ___ children born. |
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Some were promised freedom after ten children born. |
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"Before the Civil War, the South was in some respects not so much a democracy as a/n ___." |
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which southern state produced a higher proportion of front-rank statesmen? |
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Name 2 southern aristocrats (and colleges that they attended) |
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-John C. Calhoun (Yale) -Jefferson Davis (West Point) |
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Where were the finer schools in the nineteenth century? |
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v/f: most mistress/master relationships were strained |
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kind of falsum. they ranged from "affectionate to atrocious" |
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v/f: the south led a diverse economy |
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"[slaveless whites] often lived isolated lives, punctuated periodically by _, and _. |
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extended socializing, sermonizing at religious camp meetings |
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what was a "rich man's war but a poor man's fight" |
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who was the "barber of Natchez"? |
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William T. Johnson...former slave turned slaveowner of 15 bondsmen |
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who was not allowed to testify against whites in court? |
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What state had a school that allowed black people in? What happened to the school? |
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-New Hampshire -dragged into a swamp |
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what famous orator was often attacked by northern rowdies? |
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what was the only acquitted slaver? Where did this take place |
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Was breeding slaves encouraged? |
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who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin? |
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What was slavery's greatest psychological horror? |
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slave auctions, sundering of families |
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V/F: some states made it illegal to sell children under 11 from their mothers |
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why were compassionate laws for slaves hard to enforce? |
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-slaves couldn't testify in court -marriages not legally recognized |
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While there were definitely sadistic floggers, why did the average planter refrain from beating slaves bloody on a regular basis? |
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-made for sullen laborers -lash marks hurt resale values |
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How stable was slave family life? How was this shown? |
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-relatively stable except for separations -naming children for grandparents -avoided marrying of first cousins |
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Where did slavery family separations occur? |
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smaller plantations, upper South |
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V/F: Slaves largely dismissed the over-evangelical spirit of the SGA |
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falsum. Melded African culture w/pertinent Christian aspects...led to spirituals |
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What led to the "responsorial" style of preaching to develop? (define) |
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-African culture - ringshout dance -congregation frequently punctuates the minister's remarks with assents and amens |
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NAME THAT MAN: Reverend Elijah P. Lovejoy |
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-Alton, Illinois, -impugned the chastity of Catholic women, -had his printing press destroyed four times and -was killed by a mob in 1837; -he became an abolitionist martyr. |
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For a long time, abolitionists like the extreme Garrisonians were unpopular, since .......... |
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For a long time, abolitionists like the extreme Garrisonians were unpopular, since many had been raised to believe the values of the slavery compromises in the Constitution. |
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describe ways to make trouble without getting punished too badly by a master |
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-They worked as slowly as they could without getting lashed. -They stole food and -sabotaged expensive equipment. -they poisoned their masters’ food. |
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NAME THAT REBELLION ORGANIZER: Rebellions, such as the 1800 insurrection by a slave named ____ in Richmond, Virginia |
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NAME THAT REBELLION ORGANIZER: 1831 revolt led by semiliterate preacher ____ |
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NAME THAT REBELLION ORGANIZER: 1822 Charleston rebellion led by ______ |
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what did distinguished black leader Booker T. Washington take note of concerning anti-slaveryers? |
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Supporters of abolitionism had to degrade themselves, along with their victims, as noted by distinguished black leader Booker T. Washington. |
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why couldn't slaves be educated? |
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reading brought ideas of discontent |
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What did a huge fear of slave rebellion do to owners? |
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bolstered an intoxicating theory of biological superiority? |
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NAME THAT MAN: William Lloyd Garrison |
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On January 1st, 1831, William Lloyd Garrison published the first edition of The Liberator triggering a 30-year war of words and in a sense firing one of the first shots of the Civil War. |
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NAME THAT MAN: Wendell Phillips |
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a Boston patrician known as “abolition’s golden trumpet” who refused to eat cane sugar or wore cotton cloth, since both were made by slaves. |
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NAME THAT MAN: David Walker |
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a Black abolitionist, wrote Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in 1829 and advocated a bloody end to white supremacy. |
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NAME THAT WOMAN: Sojourner Truth |
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a freed Black woman who fought for black emancipation and women’s rights, and Martin Delaney, one of the few people who seriously reconsidered Black relocation to Africa, also fought for Black rights. |
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NAME THAT MAN Frederick Douglass |
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who was a great speaker and fought for the Black cause despite being beaten and harassed ALSO wrote autobiography ("Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass") |
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What was the difference between Douglass Garrison's abolitionist opinions? |
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While Garrison seemed more concerned with his own righteousness, Douglass increasingly looked to politics to solve the slavery problem. |
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What political parties did Douglass support? |
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-the Liberty Party -the Free Soil Party -Republican Party |
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NAME THAT MAN: Martin Delaney |
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seriously reconsidered Black relocation to Africa, also fought for Black rights. |
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NAME THAT MAN: David Walker |
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a Black abolitionist, wrote Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in 1829 and advocated a bloody end to white supremacy. |
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Southerners began to organize a campaign talking about slavery’s positive good...what did they argue? |
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-Southern slave supporters pointed out how masters taught their slaves religion, made them civilized, treated them well, and gave them “happy” lives. -They also noted the lot of northern free Blacks, now were persecuted and harassed, as opposed to southern Black slaves, who were treated well, given meals, and cared for in old age. |
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What was the gag resolution? |
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In 1836, Southern House members passed a “gag resolution” requiring all antislavery appeals to be tabled without debate, arousing the ire of northerners like John Quincy Adams. |
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who did Garrison contrast w/? (not Douglass) |
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NAME THAT MAN: Lewis Tappan |
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Many abolitionists’ speeches provoked violence and mob outbursts in the North, such as the 1834 (slaverers) trashing of Lewis Tappan’s New York House. |
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In 1835, NAME miraculously escaped a mob that dragged him around the streets of Boston. |
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In 1835, Garrison miraculously escaped a mob that dragged him around the streets of Boston. |
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NAME THAT MAN: Theodore Dwight Weld |
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-converted by Finney in burned-over district -appealed to uneducated rural farmers |
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Who wrote "American Slavery as It Is"? |
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What is the name of John Orr's estate? |
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Why was Liberia established? |
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established for former slaves to go back to Africa |
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Why was Garrison arrested? What was his bail? |
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-thought he was part of the murderous Turner Conspiracy -$5,000 |
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