Society and Culture Before the Civil War

people who believed that slavery should be against the law

• supply

• artisans

• abolitionists

• trade unions

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

• boom

• Second Great Awakening

• cottonocracy

• cultivate

the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest.

• artisans

• trade unions

• civil disobedience

• strikes

prepare and use (land) for crops or gardening.

• Know-Nothing Party

• abolitionists

• cultivate

• American Colonization Society

The rich planters that controlled the majority of the cotton trade

• abolitionists

• American Colonization Society

• Underground Railroad

• cottonocracy

an organized effort to improve political, legal and economic status of women in American society

• women's rights movement

• civil disobedience

• Second Great Awakening

• social reform

the first national women's rights convention at which the Declaration of Sentiments was written

• strikes

• Know-Nothing Party

• Seneca Falls Convention

• Nativist

A time of fast economic growth

• cultivate

• boom

• Underground Railroad

• civil disobedience

Early labor organizations that brought together workers in the same trade, or job, to fight for better wages and working conditions

• women's rights movement

• capitalists

• trade unions

• Industrial Revolution

organized attempts to improve conditions of life

• capitalists

• social reform

• Seneca Falls Convention

• women's rights movement