Abolition
What does abolition want to get rid of?
Slavery
What is the #1 right women wanted?
The right to vote
What does URBAN mean?
Cities
What invention helped people and goods move farther and faster than ever before?
The railroad
Temperance was meant to limit what in the U.S.?
Alcohol abuse
Who led the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
What is another name for the right to vote?
Suffrage
What does RURAL mean?
Farmland/countryside
What was the name of the invention that came before the telephone?
Telegraph
Dorothea Dix tried to make what better in the U.S.?
Prisons/mental health facilities
Who is the former slave who gained freedom and began writing and speaking against slavery (wrote the North Star newspaper)?
Frederick Douglass
Besides voting, what is one right women do not have at this time?
The right to own property; the right to their own wages; the right to go to college.
What part of the country was mostly industrial (factories, manufacturing)?
North (Northeast)
What invention helped to clean cotton more quickly, increasing productivity but also slavery?
Cotton Gin
The Second Great Awakening saw more and more people start to turn to what?
Religion
What book did Harriet Beecher Stowe write about the stories she heard from runaway slaves?
"Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Name one of the major figures of the Women's Rights movement.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Susan B. Anthony; Lucretia Mott
Where were slaves being used? (hint: the SOUTH is correct, but not the answer I want)
Plantations
What kind of engine was created that made travel by trains and boats even more efficient/faster?
Steam Engine
Transcendentalism wanted for people to become more focused on what?
Nature
What was the name of the white abolitionist who ran the Liberator newspaper?
William Lloyd Garrison
What was the name of the 1st women's rights convention in the U.S.?
Seneca Falls Convention
What does "urbanization" mean?
People moving into cities; the growth of city centers.
Who invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts?
Eli Whitney
What is it called when a movement is started that aims to make changes in society?
Social Reform