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Reformers and Causes/Events that Led to the Civil War VA SOL 8e, 9a, 9b

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