Unit 6 Americans in the mid-1800s

a person who supported abolition, or the ending of slavery

• abolitionist

• an og

• ableist

• a northerner

Transcendentalism is the idea that people should ​ (a)   logical thinking to reach ​true understanding, with the help of ​ (b)   and ​ (c)   .

• go beyond
• emotions
• intuition
• reason
• instinct
• stick with
• forget
• facts
• opinions

Match the following

• Economic & cultural changes from increased use of machines to do work

• Underground Railroad

• when enslaved people rebelled in VA in 1831

• Nat Turner’s Rebellion

• a revival of religious feeling and belief from the 1800s to the 1840s

• Industrial Revolution

• a secret network of people that helped enslaved people escape to freedom

• Seneca Falls Convention

• women’s rights convention in July 1848 that started women's right to vote movement

• Second Great Awakening

person who favors an agricultural way of life and government policies that support agricultural interests

• agrarian

• industrialist

• modernist

• homesteader

person whose wealth comes from the ownership of industrial businesses and who favors government policies that support industry

• agrian

• industrialist

• modernist

• homesteader

unequal treatment based on a person’s race, gender, religion, place of birth, or other arbitrary characteristic

• discrimination

• racism

• prejudice

• rude

the social separation of groups of people, especially by race

• segregation

• jim crow laws

• socialism

• regionalism

the belief that one race is superior to another

• bigotism

• fascism

• racism

• prejudice