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Abolitionist |
People who favored the end of slavery |
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Reformers |
People who want to improve our lives by making changes to our society, such as ending slavery, getting women the right to vote, or improving the conditions of prisons or schools |
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Second great awakening |
A revival of religious feelings and belief in the 1820's and 1830's that influenced people to do good deeds foe their community |
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Seneca falls convention |
An organized movement for womens rights in 1848. Such as improving wages, property rights, and suffrage. |
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Temperance movement |
A social reform movement designed to get people to stop drink to excess |
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Sojourner truth |
A former slave who became a reformer and gave speeches for womens rights and anti-slavery |
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Fredrick Douglass |
A former slave, abolitionist, writer ( autobiography of Fredrick Douglass, newspaper publisher (the north star) |
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Dorothea dix |
Reformer for the improvement of prisons and the mentally ill |
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Horace mann |
Reformer who wanted to improve the condition of schools |
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
One of the organizers of the Seneca falls convention |
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William Lloyd garrison |
Abolitionist newspaper publisher ( the liberator ) who tried to convince other northerners to work to end slavery |
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Underground railroad |
A secret network of free blacks and sympathetic whites that provided safe houses and transportation for run away slaves to reach freedom |
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Suffrage moment |
A social reform movement designed to get women the right to vote |
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Declaration of sediments |
A former statement of injustices suffered by women, written by the organizers of the Seneca falls convention |
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Industrial revolution |
The change in economics where things once made by hands were now made by machines. This increased productivity |
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Cotton gin |
A hand operated machine that cleans out seeds and other unwanted materials from the cotton. This increased productivity |
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Secession |
The act of withdrawing from an organization such as the United states of America |
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Fugitive slave act |
Any person who aided /helped a slave escape or refused to aid the slave catcher could be jailed. Runaway slaves could be legally taken from the north, back to their slave owner in the south |
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Uncle Tom's cabin |
A novel written by Harriet beecher stowe that was so descriptive of the evils of slavery, that it convinced many northern to become abolitionist. It divided the nation |
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Missouri compromise (of 1820) |
Compromise created by Henry clay. Missouri became a slave state and Maine as a free state, thus keeping the balance in Congress. It also divide the western lands at the 36 degrees 30 latitude where anything above it would be free territory and anything below it would be slave territory |
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Emancipation |
The act of freeing people from slavery. President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation freed the slaved in the secession states |
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Compromise of 1850 |
Henry clay proposed California became a free state, new Mexico and Utah territories use popular sovereignty ( they decide), end to slave trade, but not slavery in D.C., strict fugitive slave laws to return runaways |
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Transcontinental railroad |
Railroad that ran from st. Louis to California. It connected the far west to the east and made it possible to quickly transport goods and people from coast to coast |
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John brown |
Abolitionist that took matter into his own hands and used violent means to address the evils of slavery |
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Fort summer |
A union fort located in south Carolina where the first shots of the civil war took place |
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National turner |
A slave that led a violent rebellion (killed at least 57 whites) in VA that frightened southern whites so much they created stricter slave codes (rules) with more severe punishments. |
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The union |
The USA as one county under a single government, during the Civil war it meant the north |
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The Confederates |
The states in the south that seceded from the union known as the Confederate states of America |
