Unit 7 Flashcards
(10 cards)
Manifest Destiny
The theory made by John O’Sullivan that the country was meant to expand its land.
Cult of Domesticity
The tradition that women stay in the houses doing housework and caring for children when they get married
Whigs
Party that was formed to be against Andrew Jackson; Henry Clay leader
Free soil
Combination of Wilmot Dems, Conscience whigs, liberty party united under being against the expansion of slavery
Angelina Grimké
Abolitionists and women’s rights activist wrote Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses
Frederick Douglass
Escaped slave, became key speaker under Garrison eventually releases a book and The North Star newspaper
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
denied right to speak at anti-slavery convention organizes for women’s rights
Slavery as It is: Testimony of a Thousand Witness
Written by Angelina Grimké and her husband Theodore Weld.
Liberty Party
Completely against slavery