He wrote in traditional verse forms and became America’s favorite poet.

_______ was a Massachusetts lawyer and the father of the Common School movement.

This tremendously increased the population of California between the years of 1849 and 1853.

Slave families not secure in the South.

________ established a community called New Harmony in western Indiana as an example of how human beings could live in harmony with each other, which closed three years later because of strife between its members.

She founded a weekly paper called The Revolution which promoted the dignity of women.

California become a state in this year.

Beginning in the 1870s, northerners began to abolish slavery. What happened to many of the northern slaves?

She called the first women’s rights convention in Wooster, MA.

____________was a Massachusetts writer whose stories explored the old Puritan culture of New England.

Name two inventions that came from the North before 1850.

In what part of the South was the region's most important cash crop (cotton) grown.

________ was a New York writer whose admiration for the traditions of European culture made him critical of American culture.

The bishop of New York City who contended with the Common School movement.

The name of the “line” that marked the division between the North and South.

What tradition were the members of the South's upper classes devoted to?

____________ was a reforming preacher in the Second Great Awakening.

An advocate for the reform of the prison system and for humane care of the mentally insane.

This kind of writing most flourished in the South.

California became a state in this year.