Vocabulary
A person who fights to end slavery
Who is an abolitionist?
This event was momentous and doubled the size of our country.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The invention of this machine lead to an increase demand for enslaved people.
What is the cotton gin?
The main goal of the women's rights movement was for women to achieve this.
What is suffrage/the right to vote?
The failure of the first form of government led to the development of this important document.
What is the Constitution?
The division of powers between the three branches of government to prevent one person from gaining too much power.
What is the separation of powers?
These individuals were sent to explore and map out the Louisiana territory.
Who are Lewis & Clark?
This compromise allowed 2 states to enter the U.S, one slave state & one free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This escaped slave went on to become a famous abolitionist who wrote his own autobiography, as well as a newspaper.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Who are the people?
A member of the women's rights campaign
What is a suffragette?
Man made waterway that connected Albany to Buffalo and made NYC a dominant commercial center.
What is the Erie Canal?
This Supreme Court case ruled that any enslaved or free African American was not considered a citizen in the United States.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
This secret escape route helped lead to the freedom of many enslaved people.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This group faced dangerous working conditions and made very little money while working.
Who are children?
The first form of government in the United States
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This was the movement of thousands of people from the east to the west after this mineral was discovered.
What is the California Gold Rush?
This 1850 law allowed slave owners the right to capture any runaway enslaved person and return them back to slavery.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The movement to ban alcohol
What is temperance?
This event led directly to the secession of the Southern states from the United States.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
Favoring the interests of one's section or region over the interests of the entire country.
What is Sectionalism?
The forced journey that this Native American group took to move Westward.
What is the Trail of Tears?
A document that freed all enslaved people living in the Confederacy
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
At the Seneca Falls Convention the women modeled the Declaration of Sentiments after this famous document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
What is the NORTH?