Reform Movements
The Abolitionist movement called for?
Immediate Emancipation
These two Christian groups preached hate against each other.
Catholics and Protestants
This was the movement to end slavery.
The Abolitionist movement
This group of people immigrated due to a large crop famine.
The Irish
This was the manner in which people largely traveled west.
Wagon Trains
This group of people was the largest group pushing reforms.
Women
This Christian group often takes multiple wives.
Mormons
This was the term for the voluntary freeing of slaves.
Manumission
This group of people often immigrated with enough money to buy land.
The Germans
The trip west typically took this long.
5-6 months
This movement focused on limiting or banning the consumption of alcohol.
The Temperance Movement
This religious group did not believe in heaven or hell, rather that God would save everyone.
Universalists
This was the term for the forced/mandatory freeing of slaves.
Emancipation
This Native American group was involved in the Trail of Tears.
The Cherokee
This group of people were INITIALLY very helpful to travelers heading west.
Native Americans
This reform movement is still in action today and focuses on rehabilitation.
Prison Reform Movement
This religious group is known for being conscientious objectors and among the first abolitionists.
Quakers
This was the term for Congress's lack of action in regards to slavery.
The Great Silence
These two states are where many of the early Germanic immigrants settled. (name one)
PA and OH
This trail west was the most popular and has a video game named after it.
The Oregon Trail
This event began the women's movement.
The Seneca Falls Convention
This Religious leader was murdered causing his group to flee west.
Joseph Smith
Calls for abolition, emancipation, and manumission had been common in the US since the signing of this document.
The Declaration of Independence
This was the South's response to the Abolitionist movement.
They stopped circulating abolitionist writings
This individual invented the sharp edged plough allowing westward land to be farmed more easily.
John Deere