Vocabulary
A movement to improve or change social, political, or economic conditions. (Rebuilt to make better).
Reform.
Started the anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator
Called for slavery to end immediately
William Lloyd Garrison
Equal rights for women, including suffrage (voting)
Seneca Falls Convention (1848),
nation divided over whether or not to admit new territories as free or slave states
prohibited slavery N of the MC Line (36° 30’N)
Missouri Compromise Line
Star in the sky that represents the direction to freedom
The North Star
Loyalty to one’s region rather than the entire country
Sectionalism.
Formerly enslaved; powerful speaker
Started the anti-slavery newspaper, The North Star
Frederick Douglass
Ban alcohol
Temperance
Slave revolt following a pro-slavery attack and the vote to allow slavery in Kansas
John Brown’s Raid
Relocating from the country to the city
Urbanization
(Break away) from the union
secede
Most famous conductor on Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Improve working conditions - shorten hours, increase wages, safety, no child labor
Labor Unions
The party’s main goal was to end slavery
President Abraham Lincoln was a leader of this political party.
Republican Party
School where American artist who painted detailed landscape showing power and beauty of nature.
Hudson River School
Refers to the right to vote (women)
Suffrage
Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which exposed Northerners to the cruelty of slavery
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Free public elementary education for all children
Common School
California is admitted as a free state & Fugitive Slave Act is passed (can’t help fugitives/escaping African Americans)
Compromise of 1850 & the Fugitive Slave Act
Individuals who are AGAINST slavery
Abolitionist
Henry Davis Thoreau refused to pay taxes
Civil Disobedience
Powerful speeches (“Ain’t I a Woman?”)
Fought against slavery and for women’s suffrage
Sojourner Truth
Prisons used as a place to reform prisoners (ex. Teach to read & write
Prison Reform
States can nullify (refuse to obey) federal laws & secede (break away) from the union
Nullification Crisis
Slaves traveled to the ___ to seek food, shelter, and safety during the underground railroad
Stations (Safe Houses)