Vocabulary & People
What is the Definition for Abolition? and what is a Abolitionist?
The fight to end slavery and a person who fights against slavery.
Born a slave, Escaped to Freedom and Set up a Newspaper called the _______.
Who is Frederick Douglass and his newspaper the North Star
What is convention held for women's rights? and where was it located?
The Seneca Falls Convention, Held in New york.
Name That Movement:New England, Ralph Waldo Emerson, a former minister, was the central figure in a movement that believed that every human being had unlimited potential.
What is Transcendentalism?
Name these two Reforms: One day in 1841, a Boston woman named Dorothea Dix agreed to teach Sunday school at a jail. What she witnessed that day changed her life forever. She was horrified to see that many inmates were bound in chains and locked in cages. Children accused of minor thefts were jailed with adult criminals.
What is the Hospitals and Prison Reform Movement?
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?
Name this Reform:New laws were passed to extend the school year and to make it to where children at least had to show up for four months out of the year.
Who led this reform?
What is the Education Reform Movement?
Horace Mann
Why was the Gadsden Purchase Needed?
The U.S. Negotiated with Great Britain to gain what Territory.
Treaty that ended the US Mexican War.
What is for the Railroad and what is
Oregon Territory
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
What Type of Economy system do these regions have?
North:
South:
West:
What is:
North:Factory system
South: Plantation System
West: Mining (due to the discovery of gold)
Idea that people could rise above the materials things in life; philosophy shared by some New England writers in the mid 1800’s.
What is definition of Transcendentalism?
Women's rights speaker and writer.
Who is Susan B Anthony?
Where did the Mormons move to when the faced persecution?
Salt Lake city Utah
Transcendentalists and artists from the __________ were famous for a romantic depiction of the American landscape.
Hudson River School.
Why did the US-Mexican War start?
Give me both the US and Mexican Side.
Mr. O Explained This.
The U.S. Claimed Mexico started the war by attacking the U.S. Border after annexing texas and Killing American Soldiers.
Mexico claimed the U.S. was invading their territory and they were defending themselves against conquerors.
What did John J. Audubon do that made him so famous and inspire so many to move west?
Drawing and Painting American Wildlife: Specifically for him Birds.
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?
Henry D. Thoreau was arrested and imprisoned in Concord for one night in 1846 for nonpayment of his poll tax. This act of defiance was a protest against slavery and against the Mexican War, which Thoreau and other abolitionists regarded as a means to expand the slave territory. What is he displaying?
What is an Act of Civil Disobedience?
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.
What are the names of the 3 authors we learned about in the Reform Art, Literature lesson this past Friday.
Washington Irving
Herman Melville
Edgar Allen Poe
Extra 100 Points if you can Name Washington Irving book.
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?
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?
Is a famous reform movement that changed the world forever. It would change people's point of view on slavery in America.
While the North was free, South stayed on having slave states, and they thought that slavery was okay. Since their reasons differ from one another, this caused conflict between the two.
Leading to what war in the future?
What is the Abolitionist Movement?
The Civil War.
Statement written in signed by women's rights supporters at the Seneca Falls Convention, detailed their complaints about social injustice against women.
What is definition of Declaration of Sentiment?