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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"

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