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The United States bought the Louisiana Territory from this country.
What is France?
Abolition was a movement that looked to end this institution.
What is slavery?
This word means the right to vote.
What is suffrage?
This reform movement looked to reduced or end alcohol consumption in the United States.
What is the Temperance Movement?
These are the Northern states that remained loyal to the United States government during the Civil War.
What is the Union?
The Erie Canal made this port city the strongest trade center in the world.
What is New York City?
This former enslaved person escaped slavery, becoming a famous speaker and writer who talked about the horrors of life as a slave.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The first women's rights convention was held in this town in New York.
What is Seneca Falls?
These were groups formed by workers that fought for better wages, fair hours and safer working conditions.
What are labor unions?
These Southern states seceded from the United States during the Civil War.
What is the Confederacy?
Jackson signed this act in 1830, which allowed the government to remove Native Americans from their land.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This former enslaved person was known as the "Moses of her people", helping other enslaved people escape.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
During the convention, men and women signed this document, advocating for women's rights in all areas of life.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
This religious movement inspired people to want to make society better.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This famous speech by Abraham Lincoln redefined the purpose of the Civil War.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This was the forced march of thousands of Cherokee people from their homes.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This was the name of the secret route of safe houses that was used to help enslaved people escape to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
These two women's rights activists were key organizers of the first women's rights convention.
Who are Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott?
He was a key figure in the Education Reform Movement.
Who is Horace Mann?
This document freed all the enslaved people in Confederate States.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This was the belief that America was destined to control all the land from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Slavery was abolished in the United States with the passage of this amendment in 1865.
What was the 13th Amendment?
Women won the right to vote with the passage of this amendment in 1919.
What is the 19th Amendment?
She was a key figure in the Prison Reform Movement.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This word means when a person or group is more loyal to a region rather than the whole country.
What is sectionalism?