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Reform Movement
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| suffrage | the fight by some women in the 1800's to be given the right to vote |
| abolitionists | name given to those who wrote and spoke against slavery |
| Harriet Tubman | a former slave who was a conductor on the Underground Railroad |
| Sojourner Truth | a former slave who spoke out against slavery. Gave the speech "Ain't I a Woman?" in support of women's rights. |
| Fredrick Douglass | a former slave who became famous for his writings and speeches against slavery |
| William Lloyd Garrison | a white northerner who founded the American Anti-Slavery Society |
| Underground Railroad | not a railroad and not underground. Helped slaves escape to fee lands like the free states North and Canada or South to Mexico, Florida, or the Caribbean |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that told the cruelty of slavery. Helped turn more people in the North against slavery. |
| Dred Scott Decision | Court ruling that said enslaved people were property and had no rights, even if they lived in a slave-free state. |
| Why was slavery so important in the south? | Southern farmers wanted to produce more cotton and wanted slaves to do the work. |
| Who printed antislavery newspapers and spoke against slavery? | abolitionists Ex: William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass |
| sectionalism | loyalty to one part of the country Ex: North, South, and West |
| Union | another name for the northern states that remained part of the United States |
| civil war | a war between 2 groups or regions within one nation |
| fugitive | a person who is running away from the law |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Helped organize a women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, NY. Believed in equality for all Americans. |
| What were the goals of the women's movement of the mid-1800's? | the right to vote, equality in education and business, the right to own property |
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