People
Writer of Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
The movement to get Americans to stop drinking alcohol
Temperance Movement
What rights did married women NOT have?
property
vote
divorce
custody of childrenWhen southern congressman would purposefully shelve petitions relate to the abolishment of slavery
Gag Rule
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This called for the end of slavery
Abolitionist movement
Why was it difficult for working families to elevate themselves in society?
School wasn't an option because children needed to work to bring money into the family
Worked too many hours to have other obligations
This called for African Americans to be shipped back to Africa?
Colonization Movement
Why was William Lloyd Garrison's voice important for the abolitionist movement?
Led the effort for the creation of public schools in America
Horace Mann
Labor Unions
Who did Andrew Jackson extend voting rights to?
All white men
Why did the Mexican American war inspire Henry David Thoreau to write Civil Disobedience?
He was arrested for refusing to pay taxes for a war he deemed to be unjust
Who advocated for African American women in her poem Ain't I a Woman?
Sojourner Truth
The founder of the Anti-Slavery newspaper The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
This was the effort to get Americans to return to christian values and virtues
2nd Great Awakening
What right did the gag rule violate
1st amendment right to petition the government
This was the first meeting that called for women's rights that would lead to congressional debate
Seneca Falls Convention
Former Slave who helped lead the abolitionist movement, and co-founded the North Star anti-slavery newspaper
Frederick Douglass
Who led the effort to reform and clean up America's asylums and penitentiaries?
Dorthea Dix
How did the expansion of voting rights lead to public education?
To have more educated voters
What was the punishment people in penitentiaries often faced?
Solitary confinement
What was the political movement that had people openly question and defy the expectations of society
Transcendentalism
Local Taxes