U.S History 9/30/22

Row A

100

• This term means “setting free.” It’s an antonym for restraint or enslavement. 

emancipation

200

 author of the best-selling antislavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Catharine Beecher Stowe

300

In which philosophical movement was Ralph Waldo Emerson a leader?

transcendentalism

400

• This man was captured, tried, convicted and handed for his part in a slave rebellion.

Nat Turner

500

This former slave, changed her name, spoke for abolition and women's rights

Sojourner Truth

Row B

100

This is a work stoppage

strike

200

In general, this term means “a complete doing away with,” which is how it came to be the name of the movement to outlaw slavery.

abolition

300

This person helped launch the Second Great Awakening

Charles Grandison

400

Southern slaves interpret Christian message as a

promise of freedom

500

• When _____________ found herself excluded from an anti- slavery conventions in London because she was a woman, she planned with Lucretia Mott to form a society for women’s rights.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Row C

100

Born into slavery, this great writer and speaker escaped to the North, where he worked to achieve the freedom of slaves through nonviolent means.

Frederick Douglass

200

• designed a new style of clothing for women to improve comfort and health.

Amelia Bloomer

300

•Called for improvement of horrible prison conditions

•Stop abuse of mentally ill

•Creation of mental institutions

•Dorothea Dix

400

This term combines a root that means "before" with one that means "war" but is usually used specifically to mean :before the American Civil War". 

antebellum

500

worked tirelessly to abolish slavery despite having a father who was a slaveholder.

Sarah and Angelina Grimke

Row D

100

Banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States

18th Amendment

200

This person was a Quaker abolitionist who works with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to develop the agenda for the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848.

Lucretia Mott

300

This prevented congressional discussion of antislavery petitions between 1836 and 1844

gag rule

400

slavery banned north of the Ohio River

Northwest Ordinance (1787)

500

• This free African American took the extreme position of encouraging slaves to fight for freedom rather than to wait for God or slave owners to end slavery.

David Walker

Row E

100

• As the publisher of The Liberator, this man was one of the first white Americans to demand the immediate freeing of slaves.

William Lloyd Garrison

200

• Participates in the ______________________ unanimously agreed on all major issues except the concept of women’s suffrage.

Seneca Falls convention

300

• This escaped slave remained in the South because he felt that he was called by God to organize his fellow slaves in a fight for freedom.

Nat Turner

400

typically describes an imaginary community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its members

utopian community

500

• Although this man at first joined forces with William Lloyd Garrison, he later broke with Garrison over the issue of violence and started his own antislavery newspaper, The North Star.

Frederick Douglass