Reform Movements
What was the Second Great Awakening?
Religious Revival Period
Created by Henry Clay to keep the US together. Maintained balance of slave and free states, but upset almost everyone.
Compromise of 1850
Unfair treatment of a person or group based on their race
Racism
Leader of a slave rebellion in 1831 in Virginia.
Nat Turner
the social separation of groups of people, especially by race
Segregation
Movement to end slavery
Abolition Movement
Created new states in which slavery would be allowed or banned based on popular sovereignty. Led to much violence
Kansas Nebraska Acts
The Southern economy in the 1800s was based on ________________ and slavery.
Activist who helped reform prisons and mental health
Dorothea Dix
to change something in order to improve it
Reform
Movement against the consumption of alcohol
Temperance Movement
Part of the Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave act
Unfair treatment of person or group based on certain characteristics
Discrimination
Education reformer who promoted public education
Horace Mann
network of secret routes that slaves used to escape to the North.
Underground Railroad
The _____________________________ led many people to attempt to reform society.
Second Great Awakening
The time period before the Civil War
Antebellum
An anti-immigration, nativist organization
Know Nothing Party
Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth
Famous abolitionists
Early American textile factory. Famous for hiring young women.
Lowell Mill
First women's rights convention
Seneca Falls Convention
Supreme court case which stated that African Americans are property, can never become citizens, and that
Dred Scott Decision
Principle that the people rule and that their vote determines laws/actions
Popular Sovereignty
Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth
Women's rights activists
Pro-abolition congressman who was beaten and almost killed for an anti-slavery speech.
Charles Sumner