Topic 7

Which banned slave trade in 1807?

Who was one of the first to call for an immediate end to slavery in his newspaper, The Liberator?

Who founded the nation’s first state-supported teacher school?

Which of these banned slavery north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi?

What were the laws passed to control the slaves?

Which of these was the religious revival in the early 1800s?

What changed the role of women because they became wage-earners and worked outside the home?

Who was most famous for writing a book that helped northerners get involved in ending slavery?

Who went to jail because of this belief (civil disobedience)?

What was the organization that wanted to resettle former slaves in Africa?

What was the abolitionist newspaper published by Frederick Douglass?

Who wrote poems that told a Story? One of his well known works was Song of Hiawatha.

To make products, what did factories NOT need?

Which caused quantities to increase and prices to go down for goods?

Who was famous for writing Moby Dick?

Which of these caused an increase in US Manufacturing by cutting off foreign manufactured goods and competition?

Who organized the first women’s rights convention in 1848?

Which of these was one reformer of common education?

Who wanted to keep the secret of textile technology and passed laws to prevent its export?

Which caused many immigrants to come to the US in the 1840's & ‘50's?

Where was the meeting that laid the foundation for the women’s rights movement?

Who was the daughter of a judge and a leader of the women’s rights movement?

Who was the best-known African American abolitionist?

Who was a lawyer in Massachusetts that believed education was the key to getting ahead?

Who was the first woman to become a licensed doctor?

Who told people about the bad conditions in prisons and treatment of the mentally ill?

Which is NOT associated with the cotton gin?

What was the region that first built factories because of the natural resources?

Who escaped from slavery in 1826 and traveled throughout the North opposing slavery?

Who famously practiced a form of protest called civil disobedience?

Who was the leading transcendentalist?

Which term means to drink little or no alcohol?

Who was the reformer that improved the treatment of criminals and the mentally ill?

Who used their money to free several of their family's enslaved workers?

What was the transformation from hand-made to machine-made goods called?

What was the most famous anti-slavery newspaper?

Who was the editor of an antislavery newspaper called North Star?

What does abolish mean?

Who was “a forceful voice” for abolition that proposed an amendment to gradually end slavery in the US?

What caused quantities to increase and prices to go down for goods?

What was a time of great interest in religion that encouraged much reform in the early 1800’s?

Who was the author of “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?

Who had a great effect on the antislavery movement especially with a newspaper?

What was the colony created for the resettlement of former slaves?

Who were people who worked to end slavery?

Which were often the subject of George Catlin's works?

Who created a way to teach people who could not hear?

Who was a Quaker and a leader of the women’s rights movement?

Who was known as "Black Moses?"

Who helped teach people who could not see? He made books with large raised letters.

What was the term for the idea that people determine truth for themselves?

Who was most famous for writing a book that helped northerners get involved in ending slavery called Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

What was the term used to describe the wealthy plantation owners that dominated the southern culture and politics?

Who was the former slave that was a powerful advocate for equality of women and men?

How did American artists develop a purely American style?

What prevented Congress from debating the slave issue?

Which term is the term for trying to improve society?

Who invented a light-weight steel plow that opened the prairies to farming?

What caused a dramatic increase in the production of cotton and the need for slaves?

Which is NOT an aspect of the US economy that helped the Industrial Revolution during this period?

Who wrote Leaves of Grass and was famous for American themes and democracy?

What was the political party nativists formed because it was based on a secret society?

Who was a famous wildlife artist?

Who thought women should be trained to be leaders and set up the Troy Female Seminary ?

Who became the most famous "conductor" helping slaves escape to the North and Canada?

Who began the first African American newspaper, called Freedom’s Journal?

Who was the innovator of interchangeable parts?

What was the transformation from hand-made to machine-made goods called?

Who memorized plans for a textile mill and brought it to America?

Which nation immigrated to the US because of a harsh winter, food shortages & political unrest?