Vocabulary
The Right to Vote
Suffrage
A movement that showed mandatory schooling for all children
Education Reform
Person who worked to improve women's rights in America
Susan B. Anthony
Who Am I?
I’m all about individualism
People & nature are inherently good
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What are the unalienable rights?
Life, Liberty, and Property OR
Rights you're born with and can't be taken away
Peaceful Protest
Civil Disobedience
Abolitionist Movement
A person who created an anti-slavery newspaper called "The Liberator."
William Lloyd Garrison
Who am I?
I refused to obey or protest the laws of a government peacefully…like not paying taxes.
Henry David Thoreau
Marbury Vs. Madison established ____________?
Judicial Review
Convince someone to do something
Persuade
A movement where factory workers began protesting for better pay
Labor Reform
An escaped slave who told his story through an anti-slavery newspaper called " The North Star."
Frederick Douglass
What Am I
I am a reform movement
I’m paving the way for prohibition
I look down upon the consumption of alcohol
Watch your temper, folks
Temperance Movement
What invention led to an increase in slavery in the South, and why
Cotton Gin: More slaves were needed to plant and pick the cotton.
A document that listed demands for women to have equal treatment
Declaration of Sentiments
A group of people who believed that your conscience should determine what is right and wrong
Transcendentalism
Worked to improve conditions in prison and create separate mental health facilities for prisoners
Who Am I?
1. I am a former Slave
2. I told my stories to help people end slavery
Sojourner Truth
The idea is that all trade goods must go through Britain to be sold for a profit.
Mercantilism
The first meeting that was held to discuss women's rights
Seneca Falls Convention
A movement that fought to limit the consumption of alcohol
Temperance Movement
Harriet Tubman
Who Am I?
I wrote a novel called "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Told stories of the awful conditions slaves experienced
Harriet Beacher Stowe
What is the 8th Amendment?
No cruel and unusual punishment: The punishment must fit the crime