Vocab./ Key Terms
This vocab./key term refers to the support system set up by antislavery groups in the upper South and the North to assist fugitive slaves in escaping the South.
WHAT IS THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD?
This iconic African American escaped from slavery and become a leader of the abolitionist movement. Additionally, he was also an orator, writer and statesmen.
WHO IS FREDERICK DOUGLASS?
This political party was formed in the mid 1800s around anti-Catholic and anti-immigration sentiments and policies.
WHAT IS THE KNOW NOTHING PARTY?
This important court case stipulated that the U.S. Constitution and rights and privileges was not meant to include American citizenship for black people.
WHAT IS THE DRED SCOTT DECISION / DRED SCOTT. V SANDFORD DECISION?
This is the state in our nation that hosted the Seneca Falls Convention.
WHAT IS NEW YORK?
This short-lived coalition political party in the United States was active from 1848-1854 when it merged with the Republican Party. The party largely focused on the opposition of the expansion of slavery.
WHAT IS THE FREE SOIL PARTY?
This vocab./key term refers to the newspaper dedicated to the antislavery cause launched by William Lloyd Garrison in 1831.
WHAT IS THE LIBERATOR?
This iconic but controversial American led a slave revolt that killed over 6- slave-owning whites before the revolted was defeated by state and federal troops.
WHO IS NAT TURNER?
What two events prompted mass migration of the Irish to the United States?
WHAT IS THE POTATO FAMINE AND RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS (CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS)?
By the 1840s - this percentage of the world's cotton was made in the Southern United States.
WHAT IS 60 PERCENT OF THE WORLD'S COTTON?
This Seneca Falls convention attendee and temperance lecturer embraced a different kind of freedom for women when she popularized a kind of trousers that women might wear instead of hoop skirts.
WHO IS AMELIA BLOOMER?
By 1850, this religious denomination became the largest in the United States.
WHAT IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH?
This vocab./key term refers to the groups of people who took on extralegal means to assert law and order.
WHO ARE THE COMMITTEES OF VIGILANCE?
These two sisters from South Carolina symbolized strong links between feminism and abolitionism in the 1800s and were fundamental for the advancement of rights for women.
WHO IS ANGELINA AND SARAH GRIMKE?
This was the number one region of choice for German immigrants when migrating here and the number one occupation.
WHAT IS THE MIDWEST/WEST AND FARMING/AGRICULTURE?
This person served as Chief Justice of the United States from 1836-1864 and was notably controversial for his stances on slavery.
WHO IS ROGER B. TANEY?
This iconic woman graduated from Oberlin College in 1847 and was not given the right to speak at her commencement because she was a woman.
WHO IS LUCY STONE?
German immigrants brought many distinct cultural traditions to the United States during the mass migrations. Name two.
WHAT IS THE CHRISTMAS TREE, BEER, FASHION, MUSIC, FOOD (HOT DOGS AND HAMBURGERS)?
This vocab./key term refers to the group that was founded in Boston in 1833, the society was dedicated to the abolition of slavery.
WHAT IS THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY?
This iconic anti-slavery preacher carried revivalism and activism to all the free states of the union and gained a huge following of supporters.
WHO IS THEODORE DWIGHT WELD?
Chinese immigrants took up many jobs after immigrating to America. List at least three of the most popular jobs.
WHAT IS GOLD MINER, RAILROAD BUILDER, AGRICULTURAL FARMER, FISHING, LAUNDRIES (URBAN BUSINESS)?
WHAT IS FEIGN ILLNESS, FAKE PREGNANCY, FEIGN CLUMSINESS, BORKE TOOLS, PRETEND LAZINESS, COMPLAIN ABOUT OVERSEER, REVOLT, RUNAWAY?
In the mid 1800s, women finally began to acquire legal rights to this important possession.
WHAT IS LAND/PROPERTY RIGHTS? (Especially after death of husband/loved one).
By 1860, this many slaves ran away every year out of a total slave population of 4 million. AND 1 in how many slaves? (equivalency)?
WHAT IS 50,000 SLAVES? / WHAT IS 1 OUT OF 7?
This vocab./key term refers to the provisions passed at the Women's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls in 1848 calling for full equality, including the right to vote, for women.
WHAT IS THE DECLARATION OF SENTIMENTS AND RESOLUTIONS?
Fraser mentions several iconic women who were part of the Seneca Falls Convention. Name at least three.
WHO IS ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, LUCRETIA MOTT, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, MATILIDA GAGE, MARTHA WRIGHT, MARY McCLINTOCK, JANE HUNT?
Under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, every Mexican citizen within the new boundary of the United States had what two options?
WHAT IS THE RIGHT TO AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP RO THE RIGHT TO KEEP MEXICAN CITIZENSHIP?
This iconic work by this iconic author was published during the antebellum era that expanded abolitionist support and solidified northern resentment against slavery.
Female reformers of the 1800s did not agree on everything. Fraser mentions a few things. Name at least three issues that divided women.
WHAT IS THE RIGHT TO DIVORCE, RIGHT TO MARRY INTERRACIALLY, STANCE ON ALCOHOL, STANCE ON PROSTITUTION, STANCE ON DIETARY REFORM, STANCE ON WOMAN IN THE HOUSEHOLD?
The United States experienced a huge influx of immigrants to the country by the Civil War. List in order the top four immigrant groups by numbers during the mass migration.
WHAT IS IRISH, GERMAN, BRITISH (SCOTS/WALES), CHINESE.