Reform Movements
This religious revival inspired many reform movements in the early 1800s.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This movement aimed to end slavery.
What is abolition?
This region was more industrial and urban.
What is the North?
This compromise admitted California as a free state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
He debated Stephen Douglas over slavery expansion.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This philosophy emphasized nature, individualism, and simplicity.
What is Transcendentalism?
This formerly enslaved abolitionist published The North Star.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This region relied heavily on plantation agriculture and enslaved labor.
What is the South?
This act required escaped enslaved people to be returned.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
He proposed the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Henry Clay?
These were experimental communities created to build “perfect societies.”
What are model communities?
This 1848 convention marked the beginning of the organized women’s rights movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
These crops were commonly grown in the South.
What are cotton, tobacco, and rice?
This act allowed popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
He became president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This reformer supported public education and teacher training.
Who is Horace Mann?
This term means the right to vote.
What is suffrage?
This economic system grew rapidly in Northern cities during the 1800s.
What is industrialization?
Violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers in Kansas became known as this.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This transcendentalist believed in self-reliance and simplicity.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
Reformers pushed for these types of conditions in prisons and mental health facilities.
What are more humane conditions?
This activist fought for both abolition and women’s rights.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This factor forced the North to develop factories instead of plantations.
What is rocky soil and a cooler climate?
This Supreme Court case ruled against an enslaved man suing for freedom.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
He proposed restricting slavery in Missouri through the Tallmadge Amendment.
Who is James Tallmadge Jr.?