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KCT_18-19
Key Content Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abolitionists | a person who supported abolition, or the ending of slavery |
| Seneca Falls Convention | the gathering of supporters of women’s rights in July 1848 that launched the movement for women’s right to vote |
| Declaration of Sentiments | a formal statement of injustices suffered by women, written by the organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention. Sentiments means “beliefs” or “convictions.” |
| intution | to know or understand based on feeling, not facts |
| transcendentalism | a philosophy emphasizing that people should transcend, or go beyond, logical thinking to reach true understanding, with the help of emotions and intuition |
| reform | to make change in order to bring about improvement, end abuses, or correct injustices |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | transcendentalist who wrote "Self Reliance" ; stressed the importance of the individual and, encouraged people to rrely on their own judgement |
| Henry David Thoreau | transcendentalist who urged simple and honest approach to life Wrote “ Walden” about living by self for a year |
| Liberator | abolitionist newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison |
| cotton gin | a hand-operated machine that cleans seeds and other unwanted material from cotton; created in 1791 by Eli Whitney |
| plantation | a large area of privately owned land where crops were grown through the labor of workers who lived on the land |
| industrial revolution | the dramatic change in economies and cultures brought about by the use of machines to do work formerly done by hand |
| agrarians | person who favors an agricultural way of life and government policies that support agricultural interests; preferred way of life in South |
| immigrants | person who moves from one country to another. Such a movement is called immigration; those who came between 1845-1860 were less educated, less likely to speak English, and more diverse than previous immigrants |
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