History ch 14

Prominent People

100

Lead many slaves to freedom in the North through a net work of people and hiding places

Harriet Tubman

200

Started an all-female academy in Hartford Connecticut

Catharine Beecher

300

Sisters who fought for abolition as well as women's rights

Angelina and Sarah Grimke

400

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau were all prominent people in this art movement

Transcendentalism

500

Escaped slave who wrote many autobiographies to show the injustices of slavery

Frederick Dougless

Population Panic

100

Many Irish people came to American to get away from this

A famine

200

Many Germans came to America to escape this

persecution for the political activities

300

This party made it difficult for immigrate to become citizens or hold public office

Know-Nothing party

400

Many problems came about because of the increase in population such as the creation of these poorly designed apartment buildings

tenements

500

The rise of industry lead to the families of manufactures, professionals, and master crafts people to become this

The middle class

Major Movements

100

Religious movement that emphasized that each individual was responsible for their own actions and to prove their faith trough their actions 

Second Great Awakening

200

Movement that tried to get people to stop drinking hard liquor

Temperance Movement

300

The movement that lead to the creation of mental institutions to help those with cognitive disabilities

Prison Reform movement

400

Movement that wanted all children to be taught in a common place, regardless of background

Common-school movement

500

After misstatement of African Americans from the Methodist, they broke off from them and created this church

The African Methodist Episcopal Church

Silencing Slavery

100

The name of people who fought for the removal of slavery

Abolitionists

200

The most common ways people tried to convince other about the problems of slavery

writing various works and going of speaking tours 

300

A net work of people who arranged transportation and hiding places for fugitive or escaped slaves

The Underground Railroad

400

The rule that forbade Congress from talking about ending slavery

The gag rule

500

This organization wanted the immediate emancipation and racial equality for African Americans

American Anti-Slavery Society

Women's Rights

100

At the time, when women got married this is what happed to their property

It became their husband's

200

The most common ways people tried to convince other advocate for women's rights

Writing various works and going on speaking tours

300

Some rights women were advocating for include, rights to their own property, right to earn the same amount of men, right to vote and hold jury, and the right to pursue ______________

traditionaly masculine professions

400

The first public meeting about woman's rights in the United States

Seneca Fall Convention

500

Document that detailed beliefs about social injustice toward women, included 18 charges against men

Declaration of Sentiments