Chapter 12: APUSH – Flashcards

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Abby Kelley
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An abolitionist, she traveled around giving speeches to people across the nation - she was a firm believer in equality and also fought for women's rights, also promoted pacifism - influential in women and slave rights
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Moral Suasion
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People who used morals to convert people to their cause, didn't believe in violence but instead seeing slavery as a sin, the spread that slavery was a moral sin was the center of their movemnts
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Utopian Communities
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They wanted to establish social harmony and remove individualism, it would be the ideal society, socialism and communism began to pop up, end to property ownership
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The Shakers
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A religious community that was spread from Maine to Kentucky, had over 5000 members, they believed that God had a dual personality and that men and women were equal, no family life - men and women were separated and there was no natural increase, economy successful - market vegetables, flower seeds, herbal medicine and bred cattle and furniture
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John Humphrey Noyes
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Became a religious revival and minister, believed in moral perfection an extreme - complete purity of heart - started Utopian communities
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Brook Farm
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A transcendentalist community based off both private property and communal living - focused on intellect and organization, attracted writers, artists, musicians, teachers, etc.
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The Owenites
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Created by Robert Owen it was a society based on communitarianism - strict work discipline and comfortable living and education - wanted to create a new moral world, built off of education and equality and it was believed that they could change the world
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Second Great Awakening
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Spread the idea that sinners could reform themselves and the world, revivals led to perfectionism
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Perfectionism
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Saw individuals and society as capable of indefinite improvement to a level of perfection
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Burned-Over Districts
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Areas such as New York and Ohio that had extremely intense revivalist movements, became new areas for perform movements, new radical ideas to eliminate drinking, pacifism and total abolition
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American Temperance Society
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A group that wanted an end to liquor and to free those who had sinned because of alcohol, it led to some hostility between what/ who was moral and not
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The Asylum Movement
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In order to maintain a level of society perfection it was viewed that criminals, poor and mentally ill should be stowed away, used institutions to keep them from debting society
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Horace Mann
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A lawyer and Whig politician, director of state board of education, wanted to create equality
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Common School Movement
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Big emphasis placed on schooling - Mann had large influence, also help with character building, teaching self- discipline, also helped career movement for owmen
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American Colonization Society
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Gradual abolition and Black settlement in Africa
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Liberia
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Established by American Society to be American influenced, major settlement for freed slaves
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Gradual Emancipation
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Slaves should slowly be removed form slavery
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Immediate Emancipation
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Slaves are freed immediately from ownership and are considered equals - wanted to end all racism
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David Walker
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Wrote "An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World" - written by a free black who promoted abolition through force if America didn't end the sin, claimed Blacks = Americans
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William Lloyd Garrison
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Editor of "The Liberator" - an abolitionist journal - he was not tame with his words and spoke his mind on slavery willing others to join the fight, he was well known and influenced anti-slavery ideas
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American Anti-Slavery Society
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Used to promote abolition and equality, similar preaching to the Great Awakening took place and slavery was seen as a sin - this helped with immediate abolition
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Abolition Movement
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A movement started in order to emancipate all slaves and establish the idea that "all men are created equal"
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"Wage Slavery"
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A person could work for wages and have the right to their profession, however major reconstruction would be needed for both North and South
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Toms Cabin"
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A novel portrayed stories of slave families split up by slaveholders, she pulled on emotion and helped with human appeal
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The Grimke Sisters
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Leading abolitionists, debate the constitution and saw freedom as universal, born to a slaveholder, in older years became Quakers and abolitionist, the abolition led to women rights movement - fought for equality and free speech, they had controversial speeches but used them to raise awareness
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Elijah Lovejoy
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Killed by a mob in Illinois while defending his press, mobs routinely ruined his printing press - editor of anti-slavery
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Gag Rule
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Prohibited consideration of emancipation, was repealed by JQA
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Dorothea Dix
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Leading advocate for treatment of mentally ill, she led to the construction of mental hospital in 28 states
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Co-led the Seneca Falls Convention, fought for women's rights, feminist and activist for abolition, wrote the Declaration of Sentiments
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Lucritia Mott
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Co-led the Seneca Falls Conventions, also leader of the abolition movement, feminist and believed in equality
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Seneca Falls Convention
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A gathering in New York held for women's rights, first time idea of women's suffrage was opened up - led by Stanton and Mott, the conference was intended to make women "free as man is free" and to gain the vote
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Declaration of Sentiments
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Modeled on Declaration of Independence, indicted American Society for limiting women's rights, signed by abolitionists
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Margaret Fuller
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Believed women had the same right to develop and live freely, transcendentalist, she edited "The Dial" and was first female literature editor of the New York Tribune, wrote "Woman in the 19th Century" - believed women have a path for development
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Sojourner Truth
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A freed slave, she opposed the idea of women being too weak to work and showed that she was just as strong as men
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Liberty Party
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A group dedicated to making abolition a political movement - led by James G. Birney who also ran for Pres.
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