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Bill of Rights
100
Reform movement that focused on ending slavery in the United States.
What is the Abolitionist Movement?
100
A conductor of the Underground Railroad, she helped save over 300 slaves and they nicknamed her "Moses"
Who was Harriet Tubman?
100
Era in history where individuals focused on improving society through Social Reform Movements.
What is the Reform Era?
100
Innovation that increased the need for slave labor in the South and expanded the plantation system.
What is the Cotton Gin?
100
Amendment that protects Freedom of Religion, Assembly, Press, Petition, and Speech.
What is the 1st Amendment?
200
Reform movement that wanted to stop the abuse of alcohol and negative things that it brought.
What is the Temperance Movement?
200
She fought for Women's Suffrage and Rights; was put on the Dollar Coin for her Efforts.
Who was Susan B. Anthony?
200
1st Anti Slavery group in the Colonies?
Who were the Quakers?
200
Stated that the United States should avoid Political Parties and Foreign Alliances.
What was Washington's Farewell Address?
200
Amendment that prevents cruel and unusual punishment or excessive fines and bails.
What is the 8th Amendment?
300
Name of the Reform movement that fought for women's right to vote.
What was the Women's Suffrage Movement?
300
She fought for better Prison Conditions and separate facilities for the Mentally ill.
Who was Dorothea Dix?
300
The temperance movement was mainly supported by what group of people.
Women.
300
Supreme Court Case that established the Principle of Judicial Review.
What is Marbury v. Madison 1803?
300
Amendment that protects citizens from illegal searches or seizures without a warrant or probable cause.
What is the 4th Amendment?
400
School that focused on painting Natural Landscapes.
What is the Hudson River School?
400
Former slave who published his experiences about the horrors of slavery using his Newspaper The "North Star".
Who was Frederick Douglass?
400
Book that told the truths about slavery will create greater tensions between the North and the South.
What is "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
400
Territory gain after the Mexican American War, will to debates over the spread of slavery.
What was the Mexican Cession?
400
Amendment that prevents the Quartering of Troops/soldiers in your home.
What is the 3rd Amendment?
500
Religious movement that inspired people to want to improve society through individual salvation, leading to the Reform Movements of the Reform Era.
What was the 2nd Great Awakening?
500
He practiced and promoted Civil Disobedience by refusing to pay taxes to the government.
Who was Henry David Thoreau?
500
The Abolitionist movement finally accomplished its goal with the passing of which Amendment that abolished slavery.
What was the 13th Amendment?
500
Gave us the process of admitting new states into the Union.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
500
Amendment that grants you a fair and speedy trial, the right to have a lawyer present in criminal cases.
What is the 6th Amendment?
600
This is known as a peaceful way to protest unfair laws or policies.
What is Civil Disobedience?
600
She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, the book that told the truths about slavery and increased tension between the North and South over the issue of slavery.
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
600
1st Women's Rights Convention that took place in New York; will call for equality of women in all parts of life and also Women's Suffrage.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention 1848?
600
Issue of whether a state can nullify or cancel a federal law.
Involved South Carolina and the Tariff of Abominations.
What was the Nullification Crisis?
600
Is an example of Federalism; it states that any power not given to the Federal Government is given to the States.
What is the 10th Amendment?
700
Reform movement that said people should be their own person and not follow the crowd, focused on a persons relationship with nature.
What is Transcendentalism?
700
Organized the Seneca Falls Convention, and is one of the main fighters in the fight for women's rights and suffrage (right to vote).
Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
700
White abolitionist that published an anti-slavery newspaper called the "Liberator".
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
700
Battle of the Civil War where the Confederacy was Split and the Union took control of the Mississippi River.
What was the Battle of Vicksburg?
700
Amendment that grants DUE PROCESS and prevents a person from testifying against themselves.
What is the 5th Amendment?