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8th Ringcard 144-161
Ringcard Vocab 144-161
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Second Great Awakening | movement bringing people back to God after Manifest Destiny |
| Temperance Movement | campaign to stop the selling of alcohol |
| Abolition | movement to end slavery in U.S. |
| Underground Railroad | secret voyage from South to Northern states escape slavery |
| Seneca Falls Convention | meeting to motivate women's rights |
| suffrage | right to vote |
| Horace Mann | father of education |
| Dorothea Dix | improved care for mentally ill |
| Frederick Douglass | ex-slave; speaker; taught himself to read, writer |
| Sojourner Truth | religious ex-slave; "journey to tell Truth" |
| Harriet Tubman | leader of Underground Railroad; ex-slave |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | leader of Seneca Falls Convention |
| William Lloyd Garrison | publisher of "The Liberator" |
| Wilmot Proviso | no slavery in Mexican Cession |
| Compromise of 1850 | added California as a free state and enacted Fugitive Slave Law |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Fugitive Slave Law | required to return slaves if found in free territory |
| Kansas Nebraska Act (Bleeding Kansas) | organized states of Kansas and Nebraska – allowed to choose slavery or not (Popular Sovereignty) |