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Unit 4--Part 2
APUSH
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| market revolution | the expansion of places one could sell products to in the early 1800s |
| Lowell Mills | textile factories dominated by female labor |
| separate spheres | the middle-class concept that a woman's place was within the home and that men should dominate public life |
| cult of domesticity | the middle-class idea that women should be pious, pure, domestic, and submissive |
| Transcendentalism | literary movement meant to evoke emotion and challenge materialism |
| Hudson River School of Art | artistic movement meant to evoke emotion and challenge materialism |
| Second Great Awakening | religious re-birth of the early 19th century |
| Joseph Smith | he started the Mormon faith within the context of the Second Great Awakening |
| Horace Mann | one of the first advocates of tax-supported public schools |
| Dorothea Dix | she helped create mental asylums and to remove the mentally ill from prisons |
| American Temperance Society | organization that sought to ban alcohol |
| American Colonization Society | wanted to relocate slaves to Africa |
| American Anti-Slavery Society | called for immediate abolition of slavery |
| William Lloyd Garrison | leader of the American Anti-Slavery Society; published The Liberator |
| Seneca Falls | place where the 1st women's rights convention met |
| Nat Turner | led the largest (unsuccessful) slave rebellion in 1831 |
| antebellum | means "before the war"; or before the Civil War |
| Interchangeable parts | increased efficiency/mass production of manufacturing by making it possible to replace parts in machinery |
| Frederick Douglass | former slave who published the antislavery journal "The North Star" |
| Thomas Gallaudet | reformer who founded a school for the deaf |