People of the Abolitionist Movement
Also known as the Southampton Insurrection, a rebellion of enslaved Virginians took place in 1831 where slaves killed 55 white people in the deadliest slave revolt ever. The rebellion was named after this person.
Who is Nat Turner?
Organized the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society
Lucretia Mott
The dividing line between the new states being added out west to include the compromise on slavery between the states of Missouri and Maine.
The Missouri Compromise
Gave one of the most famous abolitionist and women's rights speeches in American History: "Aint I a woman?" at Akron, Ohio Women's Rights Convention in 1851.
Sojourner Truth
Authorer, Lecturer, and chief philospher of the woman's rights and suffrage movements.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The thought process that it was America's destiny to move west and acquire the lands in that direction
Manifest Destiny
Had a widely read newspaper "The Liberator" which was founded in 1831 that printed anti-slavery sentiments.
William Lloyd Garrison
The first women's rights convention
Seneca Falls Convention 1848
The Texas and Mexican American war ended with this treaty that gave America the "southwest"
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
National leader of the abolitionist movement after escaping from slavery in Maryland. He was a social reformer, orator, writer, abolitionist and statesman.
Frederick Douglass
The first women activists to testify before a state legislature, spoke to "mixed crowds" of men and women and published powerful anti-slavery tracts in the antebellum era.
Grimke Sisters
California entered into the Union as a free state due to this compromise.
The Compromise of 1850
Wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" depicting the harsh life of a slave in the south.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What year was the Seneca Falls Convention?
1848
Allowed for popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska and resulted in a violent uprising known as "Bleeding Kansas"
the Kansas-Nebraska Act