Abolition
Abolition means to
To Stop Slavery
Suffrage and enfranchisement means
To have the right to VOTE!
Gave the theories behind the reforms of the time: personal responsibility and do good for society
2nd Great Awakening
What did Horace Mann believe in?
Educational opportunity for all!
After the nation is established in 1783, what is acquired next and how?
Louisiana Purchase in 1803 by buying it from France
Who was a white northern abolitionist who wrote the Liberator?
William Lloyd Garrison
Sisters who worked together to fight for women's rights
Grimke Sisters
Led a rebellion where 200 people were killed. Totally freaked out the south, making them further defend slavery.
Nat Turner
Conductor on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
What are 3 facts about the Compromise of 1820?
Maine = Free; Missouri = Slave; All states above the 36'30 line are free and those south of it are slave
What did Uncle Tom's Cabin do?
Book by H. B. Stowe that convinces northern whites that slavery is evil and must be stopped
Why did women form their own movement and not help abolitionists as much?
Male abolitionists were sexist and wanted to focus on rights of black men first.
Polk's campaign slogan
54 40 or fight
Dorothea Dix wanted to main things reformed. What?
Prisons and Hospitals.
In what is now Texas, Mexico gave incoming Americans the right to buy...
Land Grants
Who wrote the 4th of July Speech? And the North Star
Frederick Douglas.
Spokesperson for the Suffrage movement: Seneca Falls
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, L. Mott?
General who won Texas its independence
Traveled out to Utah to create a Mormon Utopia
Brigham Young
What territory is acquired in 1846? How? Deciding the land at the 49th parallel
Oregon; by treaty with Russian and England
What will eventually free slaves?
13th Amendment
What document was written at the Seneca Falls Convention that said all women and men are equal?
Declaration of Sentiments!
Area of land that was bought to build the transcontinental railroad
Who said it is necessary to break bad laws on purpose? What is this called. Give an example.
Henry David Thoreau; Civil Disobedience; burning a draft card for a war you disagree with
What ends the Mexican American War?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago