us hist ch. 11
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- American Renaissance
- the extraordinary flowering of literary genius
- Both Garrison and Walker opposed the ____ tsrategy of Henry Clay's Ameircan Colonization Society, which advocated sending freed black to Liberia in Africa
- colonization
- Charles Grandison Finney
- one of the major leaders of the Great Awakening, preacher
- cotton gin
- allow cotton to be grown profitably futher west invetned by Eli Whitney 1793 Separate seeds from cotton fiber at 50 times the manual rate Enabled slave South to grow from 6 to 15 states by 1860
- Cyrus McCormick
- invented the mechanical reaper 1830s
- David Walker
- Black newspaper editor wrote an "Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World", warned that without equality blacks would rebel
- Dorothea Dix
- succeeded in convincing the state of Massachusetts to imrpove treamtent of the mentally ill 1843
- effects of the steamboat
- provide faster transportation on rivers and lakes
- Elias Howe
- invetned the sewing machine in 1846, perfected by IM Singer provided basis for expansion in the garmet industry after the Civil War
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- organized the Convention in Seneca Falls in New York to address women's rights and suffrage
- Erie Canal 1917-1825
- stretch from Albany to Buffalo, connect New York City via the Hudson River
- Francis Cabot Lowell
- introduced teztile industry to US in Massachusetts, created a buildnig house for women to work in textile industry
- Henry David Thoreau
- 'Walden': return to the simple life 'On Civil Disobedience': supported noncooperation with evil
- Horace Mann
- 1837 began campaigning for the development of public common schools as well sa normal schools fo rteachers
- John Deere
- invented the steel plow 1837
- Joseph Smith
- American who began the mormon religion
- market revolution
- explosion in jobs and consumer goods during 1800s required farmers to specialize in grain or dairy, force artisans (hand craftsmen) to compete with assembly line production, making products cheaper and more plentiful
- millenialism
- the expeted 100 years of peace on earth, religious viewpoint either end of history or the coming of Christ
- Nat Turner
- led the bloodiest slave rebellion in Virgina Turner believed he was caled by God to destroy slavery
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 'Scarlet Letter': psychological novel about Puritan morals set in the 17th century Massachusetts
- Ralph Waldo Emmerson
- lecturer and poet of transcendentalist movemnent wrote essay 'Self-Reliance': argued that we al possess a natural ability to understand and perfect the world by relying on our higher instincts
- Robert Fulton
- perfected the steamboat 1807
- Samuel Morse
- invented the telgraph
- Second Great Awakening
- growth of social reform
- Transportation Revolution
- The growth in the North and West accelerated beause of the building of roads, steamboats and canals
- Walt Whitman
- 'Leaves of grass': democratic self-individual's struggle with nature and fate
- William Lloyd Garrison
- Most active, famous, radical abolitionist, publishes newspaper 'Liberator' said that slavery was a sin and "all men are created equal"