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16. The call to outlaw the institution of slavery.
18. The most radical white abolitionist in the Northern States. Active in
religious reform movements in Massachusetts, he started his own paper,
The Liberator, in 1831 to deliver an uncompromising message: immediate
emancipation.
19. A system of production where manufacturers provided materials for
goods to be made at home. 2 words
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6. In the early 19th C., women faced limited options. Prevailing
customs demanded that women restrict their activities after
marriage to the home and family. Housework and child care were
considered the only proper activities for married women. This
tradition came to be known as this. 3 words.
7. Isabella Baumfree, a slave for the first 30 years of her life, took this
name when she decided to sojourn (travel) throughout the country
preaching, and later, arguing for abolition.
9. By the mid-1800s, some Americans were taking new pride in their
emerging culture. This person, a New England writer, nurtured this pride.
He led a group practicing transcendentalisma philosophical and literary
movement that emphasized living a simple life and celebrated the truth
found in nature and in personal emotion and imagination.
10. Experimental groups who tried to create a utopia, or perfect place.
They varied in their philosophies and living arrangements but shared
common goals such as self-sufficiency.
11. The freeing of slaves, often with no other requirement to said freedom.
15. This quote is from a reform-minded leader of the mid-19th C. As a
women, she made her voice heard in a male-dominated society. "I
proceed, gentlemen, briefly to call your attention to the present state of
insane persons confined within this Commonwealth. . . . Chained, naked,
beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience! . . . Injustice is also done to
the convicts: it is certainly very wrong that they should be doomed day
after day and night after night to listen to the ravings of madmen and
madwomen."
17. He was born into slavery in 1800 in Virginia. A gifted preacher, he
chose to lead a slave uprising that could have become a full-blown
rebellion had his ~80 slave followers remained uncaptured after murdering
60 White plantation Southerners. The backlash of the White population
was bloodier than the actual rebellion.