Reform Movements
This Christian reform movement promoted spiritual revival and emphasized the need for social reforms.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This woman given the nickname "Moses" combated slavery by establishing and using the Underground railroad to help Africans escape slavery in the US.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This industry was a byproduct of the increase in popularity of cotton as a cash crop.
What is slavery?
This law enacted in 1850 required slaves to be returned to their owners and made it dangerous for former slaves and freemen in the North, because it was difficult to prove their freedom.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
This event on April 12, 1861 marks the official beginning of the Civil War.
What is the firing on Fort Sumter?
This woman is popularized in US history for working to improve prison conditions and to help create separate facilities for the mentally disabled, and mentally ill.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This man published a newspaper speaking out against the ills of slavery, and as a former slave resisted the expansion of slavery and became one of the most famous abolitionists in the antebellum era.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Due to the lack of good farmland, and the presence of natural deep water ports, this industry influenced the growth of trade centers developing in the North.
What is manufacturing or the factory system?
This agreement in Congress admitted California as a free state, and passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 to prevent a crisis between the North and South over the issue of slavery.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This man was selected as the President of the Confederate States of America, as a former Senator from Mississippi.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Horace Mann was given this moniker for his work to provide mandatory, free public schooling for all children.
What is "Father of American Education?"
What is civil disobedience?
This issue divided the country and made organizing territories into new states more difficult?
What is the expansion of slavery?
This law enacted in 1854 actually increased tensions between Pro-Slavery and Anti-Slavery supporters as they would allow popular sovereignty to determine the expansion of slavery in select territories.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This number, represents the Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1861 following the election of President Abraham Lincoln in 1860.
What is seven?
Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Tubman, and Harriet Beecher Stowe were all proponents of this reform movement targeting slavery.
What is the abolitionist movement?
This movement was meant to reconnect people with nature and emphasized listening to your conscience to determine right and wrong.
What is the Transcendentalist movement?
This region of the country began to expand in the late antebellum era of US history, due to its cheap land and vast natural resources.
What is the West?
This supreme court case was based around the premise that once slaves left the South, they were technically free, however it was determined that slaves were not citizens and therefore could not bring a suit in US courts.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
Lincoln made this promise in his inaugural address regarding slavery in the US.
What is that it would continue to exist, but not expand?
This movement was highlighted by the Seneca Falls convention and was led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony.
What is the Women's Rights movement?
This document drafted at the Seneca Falls Convention called for equal rights for women and promoted women gaining the right to vote.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
This product was the chief reason for the expansion of manufacturing, it was supported by the South's ability to produce cotton in greater quantities.
What are textiles?
This agreement was ruled unconstitutional based on the finding in the Dred Scott v. Sanford case, because it determined that the US congress did not have the right to prohibit slavery in the US.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Jefferson Davis claimed the Union had "failed to answer the ends for which it was established" as a justification for this?
What is the Southern States Seceding from the Union?