Women's Movement
Year when women were first allowed to vote.
What is 1921?
Name given for the method Harriet Tubman and many other abolitionist used to free slaves.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Name of violent conflicts between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Name for the "regional" differences that contributed to the start of the Civil War.
What is Sectionalism?
America’s mission to expand westward to spread freedom.
What is Manifest Destiny?
She was an advocate for the mentally ill.
Who is Dorethea Dix?
Her nickname as a child.
What is "Minty"?
"Proposal" in Congress to prohibit slavery in new American territories.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
Period before the Civil War and after the War of 1812.
What is the Antebellum Period?
Name given to the forced removal of the Cherokee Indians to the West.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This Amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Her nickname as a freedom worker
What is "Moses"?
Lincoln's speech that freed slaves in slave states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Nem given when a state wanted to leave the United States.
What is secede or secession?
Began in 1848, the reason for a mass migration to California.
What is the Gold Rush?
She started the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
Her service during the Civil War?
What is serving as a Union spy?
She wrote the novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin to highlight the abuse of slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
When a state refuses to enforce a Federal law.
What is nullification?
Two men who led the U.S. expedition to the west coast after the Louisiana Purchase.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
Name of the 1st women's rights convention in the United States.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
She used it to guide at least 300 slaves to freedom.
What is the North Star?
Supreme Court case that ruled a black man was not a person.
What is the "Dred Scott" decision?
The political and social "line" that was the border between the North and South during the Civil War.
What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
Name of the mail delivery service from Missouri to the west coast during westward expansion.
What is the Pony Express?