Movements for Change
This movement focused on reducing or banning the consumption of alcohol in the United States.
What is the temperance movement?
Inventor of the Telegraph
Who is Samuel Morse?
Developed the tourist industry and aided in the decrease of cost of transporting goods.
What is a Steamboat?
Maine and Missouri became states and any area territory or state north of 36° 30' was closed to slavery.
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
What is the 1st Amendment?
Leaders of this movement, like Dorothea Dix, worked to improve the treatment of prisoners and the mentally ill in the 19th century.
What is the prison reform movement?
Founded the Abolitionist newspaper, "The Liberator".
Who is William Lloyd?
This group of artists, known for their landscape paintings, often portrayed the beauty of nature, contrasting with the rapid industrialization of the 19th century.
What is the Hudson River School?
Mandated federal support in capturing and returning runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act/Law?
No Solider shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
What is the 3rd Amendment?
This movement fought for better working conditions , shorter hours, and higher wages for factory workers.
What is the labor reform movement?
Helped enslaved people escape to free states and Canada.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Who is Eli Whitney?
Replaced the Missouri Compromise by letting settlers use popular sovereignty to decide if territories should have slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
What is the 4th Amendment?
This movement, which gained momentum in the mid-1800s, focused on achieving voting rights and equality for women.
What is the women's rights movement?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
The author of "12 years a slave".
Used Chinese and Irish labor for construction.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This enslaved man used for his freedom in a famous Supreme Court case, but the court ruled against him, saying he was not a citizen.
Who is Dred Scott?
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
What is the 8th Amendment?
This movement, led by figures like Harriet Beecher Stowe, and William Lloyd Garrison, aimed to end the proactive of slavery in the U.S.
What is the abolitionist movement?
What president was at the forefront of the Nullification Crisis of 1832?
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This waterway, completed in 1825, made it easier to transport goods between the East Coast and the Midwest.
What is the Erie Canal?
This anti-slavery newspaper, founded by Frederick Douglas, played a key role in spreading abolitionist ideas.
What is The North Star newspaper?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.