Reforms - Vocabulary
What is the Definition for Abolition? and what is a Abolitionist?
The fight to end slavery and a person who fights against slavery.
She was so important because she escaped without being caught and she saved about 300 slaves to freedom. An official "conductor" of the UGRR. This meant that she knew all the routes to free territory and she had to take an oath of silence so the secret of the Underground Railroad would be kept secret.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
What is convention held for women's rights? and where was it located?
The Seneca Falls Convention, Held in New york.
What machine was used to separate the seeds in cotton?
the cotton gin
The North and South disagreed strongly over whether this practice should continue.
What is slavery
She was one of the first leaders of the American woman’s rights movement. An excellent writer and speaker, worked together to secure women’s right to vote. Set Up the Seneca Falls convention.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
This movement goals were the immediate emancipation for enslaved people and political, economic, and social equality for blacks.
James Watt is credited with significantly improving this device, which became the primary power source of the Industrial Revolution.
Steam Engine
The North’s economy was based mostly on factories, while the South was mostly based on...
What is plantations farming.
The organized effort to gain voting rights for women.
What is women’s suffrage?
She led the call for separate jails for women, men, and children and believed that the mission of prisons should be about rehabilitation not punishment
Who is Dorothea Dix
Name That Reform: blamed alcohol for poverty, the breakup of families, and crime. They called for drinking little or no alcohol.
What is the Temperance Movement?
This was the first bicycle
This issue caused conflict as new states were added to the nation.
What is the spread of slavery west and/or whether new states should be free or slave states.
A formal statement listing grievances and demands for change.
What is a declaration?
Born a slave, he escaped to Freedom and became a famous abolitionist and attended the Seneca Falls convention.
Who is Frederick Douglass
Name this Movement: were forbidden to vote and were forbidden to occupy the same jobs as men. This Movement was started by powerful women like Lucretia Mott and Susan B Anthony.
What is the Womens Rights Movement?
The shifting of goods being made by machines in factories, leading to major changes in work, transportation, and daily life.
The Industrial Revolution
The name of the anti-slavery novel and what American author who depicted the cruel reality of slavery.
What is Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Toms Cabin.
A written statement listing unfair treatment toward women, modeled after the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
Led the moral crusade for abolition of slavery in the U.S.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison
Name an organization that formed to stop the consumption of alcohol.
American Temperance Society and/or Daughters of Temperance
Lowell Mill.
This series of compromises and laws, including the Fugitive Slave Act, increased hostility between North and South.
What is the Compromise of 1850.