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Causes to Civil War
Reformers and Causes/Events that Led to the Civil War VA SOL 8e, 9a, 9b
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| abolitionist | men and women who advocate (speak out) for the immediate abolition/ending of slavery. |
| The Compromise of 1850 | California entered the Union as a free state. Southwest territories would decide the slavery issue for themselves. Slave trade banned in Washington D.C. |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | a leader in the women's rights movement; she helped organize the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. |
| Fort Sumter, 1861 | Confederate forces open fired on a fort in Charleston Harbor, SC, marking the beginning of the Civil War |
| Frederick Douglass | wrote the North Star newspaper and worked for rights for African Americans and women to better their lives. |
| Fugitive Slave Law | required that northern states forcibly return escaped slaves to their owners. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | abolitionist; author of Uncle Tom's Cabin-a fictional novel published in 1852 that showed the brutality of slavery. |
| Harriet Tubman | led hundreds of enslaved African Americans to freedom along the Underground Railroad. |
| Isabel Sojourner Truth | a former enslaved African American, was a nationally known advocate for justice and equality. |
| Issues that Divided the Nation | slavery, cultural, economic, constitutional, and political |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854 | allowed the residents in these territories to vote on the slavery issue (popular sovereignty). |
| Missouri Compromise, 1820 | Missouri entered the Union as a slave state; Maine entered the Union as a free state. |
| popular sovereignty | people vote to make a decision about an issue. |
| rural society | people live in small villages, on farms, or on large plantations. |
| secede | to leave or separate from something. |
| sectionalism | loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole. |
| states' rights | the belief of the South that state government was supreme, and states could declare national laws illegal. |
| suffragist | men and women who advocate (speaks out) for women's right to vote |
| Susan B. Anthony | a Quaker; an advocate to gain voting rights for women and equal rights for all |
| tariff | a tax placed on goods imported from other countries |
| Underground Railroad | a system of escape routes for enslaved African Americans leading to freedom in the North and Canada. |
| urban society | people live mostly in cities and towns and work outside of their homes in factories and other businesses. |
| William Lloyd Garrison | wrote the Liberator newspaper and worked for the immediate emancipation of all enslaved African Americans. |
| Second Great Awakening | this fed a culture of reform (change) which included aspriations of social improvement, activist women, and charismatic reformers. |
| reformer | people that worked to see a particular change in society |
| Declaration of Sentiments | supporters of this declared that "All men and women are created equal |
| Democrats and Whigs | the major political parties from the 1820s through the 1850s |
| Republican Party | emerged in the late 1850s and gave voice to Northerners angry at Southern dominance of the federal government |
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