Women's Rights
The word used to describe the women's movement, especially the suffering they endured when they fought for there ballot.
What is suffrage?
Slavery exploded in the early 1800's because of this invention?
What is the cotton gin?
The president that put the Indian Removal Act into effect
Who was Andrew Jackson?
This age of reform was spawned by this event in american history, were preachers went around telling everybody to stop doing certain things to save there souls.
What is the Second Great Awakening.
The first ever women's rights convention was called this.
The Seneca Falls Convention
The west african country that was started to be a safe haven for escaped slaves that failed misserably.
What is Liberia?
The Appalachian tribe that had its own alphabet, newspaper and constitution.
Who are the Cherokee?
The type of beverage that was seen as a menace by reformists who wanted to prohibit it.
What is Alchohol?
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were blocked from attending a convention against this, which kick started the modern women's rights movements.
What is Abolition?
The most famous underground railroad leader that rescued over 200 slaves and is now on the 20 dollar bill.
Who is Harriett Tubman?
The state that tried to put in its own Indian Removal laws that were blocked by the US supreme court.
What is Georgia?
Before reformists, the mentally ill were simply thrown in these unsanitary buildings?
What are prisons?
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
The series of houses that escaped slaves would sneak in and out of in an attempt to escape the south.
What is the underground railroad?
The Florida tribe that fought multiple wars during the 1840's before finally being forced west of the Mississipi. Think of Florida State football.
Who are the Seminoles?
The word for being alchohol free especially used during this era.
What is tempreance?
A few things women were not allowed to do in the 1800s.
What are the right to vote, participate in politics, recieve an education, own property, keep earned wages?
This influential african american writer who escaped slavery and went on to serve two presidents.
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
The president that forced the cherokee to walk the trail of tears.
Who was Martin Van Buren?
The only state to require public education before the reform movement?
What is massachusetts?