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Ch. 16-18 Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Seneca Falls Convention | 1848 gathering in support of women's rights |
| Declaration of Sentiments | document produced at the Seneca Falls Convention; it re-wrote the Declaration of Independence to say that "all men AND WOMEN are created equal" |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | main organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention for women's rights |
| Lowell system | Textile factories in Massachusetts employed unmarried women as workers in the 1820's -1830's |
| republican motherhood | a belief after the American Revolution that women had the special responsibility to educate their children in the ideals of liberty |
| cult of domesticity | an idea that took hold once the Industrial Revolution separate home and work; women were naturally pure and submissive, and created a moral home environment that was a refuge from the world of work |
| Frederick Douglass | ex-slave who became a leading abolitionist lecturer and wrote a powerful autobiography |
| William Lloyd Garrison | abolitionist who published The Liberator; he favored immediate freedom for slaves and no compensation to owners. His radical brand of abolitionism helped split the movement. |
| American Colonization Society (ACS) | early, moderate anti-slavery group that favored gradual freeing of slaves and return of freed slaves to Africa |
| Nat Turner | leader of violent slave rebellion in 1831 |
| "positive good" argument | position taken by some southerners (ex. John Calhoun) that slavery was a beneficial system for blacks, an inferior race who needed paternal white care |
| cotton gin | 1793 invention by Eli Whitney that made cotton more profitable; increased the trend of the South being a one-dimensional cash-crop economy |
| split in American Anti-Slavery Society | Radicals like Garrison believed that the Society should fully embrace women's rights; others saw it as a distraction from abolition of slavery |
| What was social structure of the white population in the Old South? | Group 1(5%) PLANTERS: wealth plantation owners who owned most of the slaves. Group 2 (60%) YEOMAN FARMERS: independent farmers who owned few if any slaves. Group 3 (35%) POOR WHITES: unskilled laborers who owned no land or slaves |
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