Became a famous lecturer on women's rights. Was so determined to succeed that she attempted to vote, but was arrested for it.
Who is Susan B. Anthony ?
100
A powerful novel written in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe depicting the terrors of slavery opposed by abolitionists.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin ?
100
Born a slave, he escaped to the North and became one of the most prominent black abolitionist, eventually serving as the US minister to Haiti.
Who is Frederick Douglass ?
100
A religious episode that spurred prison reform, the women's movement and the crusade to abolish slavery, involving more people and more revivals than the earlier event of a similar name.
What is the Second Great Awakening ?
100
Declared that the vast western territories secured in the Louisiana Purchase were forever closed to slavery north of this State.
What is the Missouri Compromise ?
200
Where feminists met in 1848 to write the "Declaration of Sentiments," which stated "...all men and women are created equal."
What is the Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls, New York ?
200
The slave trade ended in 1808 but slavery was not abolished entirely until after the end of the Civil War with the ratification of this.
What is the 13th Amendment ?
200
Was the publisher of the anti-slavery newspaper, "the Liberator" beginning on New Years Day in 1831.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison ?
200
Founded by Joseph Smith in 1830, this new religion was launched when an angel gave Smith golden plates; they eventually pushed West, settling in large number sin Utah.
What is the Church of Jesus of Latter Day Saints (Who are the Mormons) ?
200
These two "Senatorial Giants" argued against each other regarding the future and nature of the Compromise of 1850.
What are John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster ?
300
Was the inspiration for the Women's Rights movement, when it refused to allow female delegates to be seated in London.
What is the World's Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840 ?
300
A virtual "freedom train" which moved slaves from home to home with the help of abolitionists until they reached free soil, typically in Canada.
What is The Underground Railroad ?
300
In 1836, Southerners pushed this legislation through the house which required all anti-slavery appeals to be tabled without debate.
What is the Gag Resolution ?
300
An area of Western New York known for blistering sermons preaching "hellfire and damnation."
What is the Burned-Over DIstrict ?
300
Territory disputed by Texas and this state were surrendered as part of the concessions to the North in the Compromise of 1850.
What is New Mexico ?
400
As the first female graduate of a medical college, she was considered a pioneer of women's rights in the professional world.
Who is Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell ?
400
A conflict seen as an attempt to bring more slave-states into the union since most of the American volunteers were from the South.
What is The Mexican-American War ?
400
In the 1820's, anti-slavery societies were more numerous south of this original southern border of colonial Pennsylvania.
What is the Mason-Dixon Line ?
400
Gatherings of as many as 25,000 people over periods of several days, boosting church membership during the Second Great Awakening.
What are Camp Meetings ?
400
The Compromise of 1850 produced this more stringent law than that of 1793, stating slaves could not testify on their own behalf or have a jury trial.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 ?
500
First institution of higher education in the US to co-educate women alongside men in 1837.
What is Oberlin College of Ohio ?
500
Repealed both the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850, which set the stage for a Civil War.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act ?
500
Privately encouraged by President Taylor, this states citizen drafted a constitution in 1849 that excluded slavery at the onset of the Gold Rush.
What is California ?
500
The best-known of the Methodist "circuit riders" or traveling frontier preachers, he traveled from Tennessee to Illinois for more than 50 years calling on sinners to respect.
Who is Peter Cartwright ?
500
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 were repealed by this legislation.