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Ch14 Social Mov'ts
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Question | Answer |
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abolition | An end to slavery |
William Lloyd Garrison | This man was an American journalist. He started "The Liberator", an anitslavery newspaper. |
Frederick Douglass | This escaped slave became an abolitionist spokesman and writer. He wrote his biography and "The North Star", an abolitionist newspaper. |
Underground Railroad | This is a network of people who helped slaves escape to the North. |
Harriet Tubman | This abolitionist escaped slavery herself and then helped many others escape as well. She is known as the "Moses" of her people. |
Women's Suffrage | Women's right to vote |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | This women's suffragist helped organize The Seneca Falls Convention. |
Seneca Falls Convention | The first national women's rights' meeting where The Decalration of Sentiments was written. |
Temperance Movement | the movement to stop the drinking of hard liquor |
Common School Movement | The movement to have all students taught in a similar way regardless of background |
Angelina and Sarah Grimke | Women's rights and antislavery activists |
Nativists | Americans who opposed immigration |
Know Nothing Party | Folks who supported measures making it difficult for immigrants to become American |
Second Great Awakening | A Christian revival |
Middle Class | The social and economic level between the wealthy and the poor |
Tenements | poorly designed apartment buildings |
Susan B. Anthony | Well known leader of the women's rights movement |
Declaration of sentiments | Modeled after the Declaration of Indepedence, this document highlighted the injustices toward women |