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This was the name of the religious movement that spread throughout the United States with many people attending revivals to hear preachers speak?
2nd Great Awakening
This society wanted to relocate enslaved people to West Africa?
American Colonization Society
What was the name of the gathering that took place in 1848 that called for an end to any laws that discriminated against women?
Seneca Falls Convention
This law required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves?
Fugitive Slave Act
Abraham Lincoln debated this man in 1858? The debates were followed closely by many Americans.
Stephen Douglas
What was the name of the movement that was founded by Lyman Beecher to stop the sale of alcohol?
Temperance Movement
Between 1822-1865 over 20,000 African Americans settled in this West African nation? Most African Americans did not want to move to Africa.
Liberia
This woman broke down barriers in higher education and eventually became a doctor?
Elizabeth Blackwell
This act passed in 1854, it said the issue of slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Which Southern State was the first to secede from the union shortly after Lincoln election in 1860?
South Carolina
This state established the first normal school to train teachers in 1839?
Massachusetts
What was the name of the prominent abolitionist that started the New England Antislavery Society, the American Antislavery Society, and “The Liberator”
William Lloyd Garrison
What did the Wilmot Proviso seek to achieve in 1846?
Ban slavery in all newly acquired lands
This person was nearly beat Sen. Charles Sumner to death in Congress?
Rep. Preston Brooks
What was the name of the “new nation” that was formed by the southern states?
Confederate States of America
This movement stressed the relationship between people and nature?
Transcendentalism
What were the names to the two southern sisters that used their inheritance to free enslaved people and toured the North to speak about the horrors of slavery?
The Grimke Sisters
This new anti-slavery political party chose former President Martin van Buren as their candidate in the election of 1848?
Free-Soil Party
This new political party was formed by anti-slavery democrats in 1854?
Republican Party
This man was chosen as the president of the new southern nation?
Jefferson Davis
This was the name for people that wanted to end slavery? Some famous examples include Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and John Brown.
Abolitionists
This person was the most famous conductor on the underground railroad? She led many enslaved people to freedom.
Harriet Tubman
What was the name of the legislative action that did the following? – 1) add California as a free state, 2) New Mexico would not restrict slavery, 3) border dispute between Texas and New Mexico went to New Mexico, 4) slave trade in Washington would be abolished, & 5) a stronger fugitive slave law.
Compromise of 1850
This infamous Supreme Court case ruled that an enslaved person was not free even in parts of the United States that did not allow slavery?
Dred Scott v Sandford Case
Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired on April 12th, 1861?
Fort Sumpter in South Carolina