Second Great Awakening / Women's Suffrage
What kinds of problems did reformers during the reform movement want to fix?
Education, women’s rights, prisons, care for the mentally ill, alcohol use, and slavery.
A person who supported the ending of slavery
Abolitionist
What was the main cause of the Civil War?
Slavery
A speech by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg in memory of the Union soldiers who had died trying to protect the ideals of freedom upon which the nation was founded
Gettysburg Address
The period after the Civil War in which Southern states were rebuilt and brought back into the Union (hint: our last unit)
What was the Temperance Movement about?
Limiting or stopping the use of alcohol.
A secret network of free Black people and white people who helped thousands of people escape slavery and go to states without slavery and Canada
Underground Railroad
What did the North rely on for their economy
Factories and businesses
This event was the rebellion of enslaved people led by Nat Turner that took place in Virginia in 1831
Nat Turner's Rebellion
laws enforcing segregation of Black people and White people in the South after the Civil War
Jim Crow laws
Why did women support the Temperance Movement?
They believed alcohol was destroying their families
This famous anti-slavery novel was credited for bringing light to the horrors of slavery and fueling the abolition movement leading to the Civil War.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
What did the South rely on for their economy?
Plantations
An agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a state in which slavery was legal and Maine was admitted as a state in which slavery was illegal.
Missouri Compromise
A racist, secret society who imitated, harmed, or murdered thousands of Black people for seeking an education or better jobs, trying to vote, and socializing with white people
The gathering of supporters of women's rights in July 1848 that launched the movement for women's right to vote
Seneca Falls Convention
How did Harriet Tubman help enslaved people?
She led them to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
What did the Fugitive Slave Act require people to do?
Help catch and return runaway slaves anywhere in the country.
A series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, who were candidates in the Illinois race for U.S. senator, in which slavery was the main issue
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
A social and/or political change to bring society closer to an ideal status.
Reform movement
What did prison reformers want prisons to focus on instead of just punishment?
Rehabilitation and helping people change.
Who were some famous Abolitionists? (name at least 2)
Fredrick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman
Limited the rights of former slaves mainly in the South to travel, vote, and work in certain jobs.
Black Codes
A change to the Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery in the United States (hint: ___ amendment)
Thirteenth Amendment
An order issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declaring people enslaved in the Confederate states to be free.
Emancipation Proclamation