People
This person led a violent slave revolt in which almost 60 whites were killed.
Who was Nat Turner?
This court case established the right of workers to strike.
What is Commonwealth v. Hunt?
Charles Grandison Finney helped launch this.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This person, along with Lucretia Mott, organized the first women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York.
Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
This was the title of a skilled artisan below master.
What is a journeyman?
This former slave published The North Star and worked to end slavery through political means.
Who was Frederick Douglas?
This prevented Congress from hearing abolitionist petitions to end slavery.
What is a gag rule?
This movement recognized the effects of drunkenness on family life.
What is the temperance movement?
This daughter of a South Carolina slaveholder published An Appeal to Christian Women of the South, in which she called upon Christian women to abolish slavery.
Who was Angelina Grimke?
Some of the optimism of religious and social reforms also inspired the attempt at creating these so-called perfect places.
What are utopian communities?
This former slave, who changed her name, spoke for abolition and women’s rights.
Who was Sojourner Truth?
or Who was Isabella Van Baumfree
or Who was Isabella Van Wagener
This is the practice of peacefully refusing to obey laws people felt were unjust.
This term refers to the 19th-century belief that married women’s activities should be limited to housework and family.
What is the cult of domesticity?
This woman was the first to graduate from medical college, and later opened the New York Infirmary for Women and Children.
Who was Elizabeth Blackwell?
This was the most radical white abolitionist and an editor of his paper, The Liberator.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
This free black person advised African Americans to fight for freedom rather than wait for slave owners to end slavery.
Who was David Walker?
Abolition it the act of legally ending slavery, while this is the act of freeing slaves.
Unlike revivalism, this movement was emphasized by reason and conscience.
This woman complained in Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman that a woman who knew "chemistry enough to keep the pot boiling, and geography enough to know the location of the different rooms in her house," was considered learned enough.
Who was Sarah Grimke?
This is the name given to the pre-Civil War South.
What is the antebellum?
This reformer focused on the mentally ill.
Who was Dorothea Dix?
This Virginia governor wrote of his wish for a "law ... gradually abolishing slavery in this State."
Who was John Floyd?
This was a philosophical movement in which Ralph Waldo Emerson was a leader.
What is transcendentalism?
In 1834, eight hundred women women went on strike against this mill.
What is the Lowell mill?
This group commonly worked as strike breakers for low wages.
Who were the Irish immigrants?