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The Reform Movement
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Another name for the United States | Union |
| Loyalty to one part of the country | sectionalism |
| a war between 2 groups or regions within one nation | Civil War |
| a person who is running away from the law | fugitive |
| helped to organize a women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, NY Believed in equality for all Americans | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| What were the goals of the women's movement of the mid-1800's? | the right to vote, equality in education and in business, the right to own property |
| name given to those who wrote and spoke against slavery | abolitionists |
| the fight by some women in the 1800's to be given the right to vote | suffrage |
| A former slave who spoke out against slavery. Gave the speech "Ain't I a Woman?" in support of women's rights | Soujourner Truth |
| A former slave who was a conductor on the Underground Railroad | Harriet Tubman |
| A white Northerner who founded the American Anti-Slavery Society | A former slave who became famous for his writings and speeches against slavery. |
| A law that required all Americans to turn in people who had escaped slavery | Fugitive Slave Law |
| NOT a railroad and NOT underground; Helped slaves escape to free lands like the free states North and Canada or South to Mexico, Florida, or the Caribbean | Underground Railroad |
| Court ruling that said enslaved people were property and had not rights, even if they lived in a slave-free state | Dred Scott Decision |
| Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that told the cruelty of slavery. Helped turn more people in the North against slavery | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Why was slavery so important to many in the South? | southern farmers wanted to produce more cotton and wanted slaves to do the work |
| was NOT a former slave; worked for the immediate emancipation of all enslaved African Americans | William Lloyd Garrison |
| Wrote the North Star newspaper; worked for rights for African Americans and women to better their lives | Frederick Douglas |
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