The belief that people can improve themselves and society is called
List 3 types of discrimination.
Name 3 changes to American schools instituted by Horace Mann.
How did the construction of the Erie Canal change America?
What is civil engagement?
Tell me about the "resume" of Frederick Douglass
How did Southerners regard "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
T or F? Quakers supported slavery
Who was John Brown? Give reasoning to support your answer
Give an example of civil disobedience.
Name 3 cotton producing states
T or F? Northern industries profited from enslaved labor.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
List 2 ways the South was different from the North.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
What did the Declaration of Sentiments call for?
Delegates at the Seneca Falls Convention compared women's struggle for equality to
How were women unequal in Antebellum society? (3 ways)
What was the Dred Scott decision? How did it impact America?
How did Abraham Lincoln's election impact America?
T or F? Horace Mann's educational reforms can be seen in our education system today.
Social problems caused by alcohol abuse led to this movement
What was prohibition?
What does it mean to secede?
This idea, based on non-violent protest says that people can disobey unjust laws
social reform
Denying a person access to a business based on race, sex or religion.
Teacher training schools, longer school year, higher salaries for teachers.
Increased trade and travel, created towns, connected communities
Action taken to address a social issue
writer, orator, publisher, former slave
Abolitionist propaganda
F
Abolitionist or terrorist? Patriot or traitor? Man of God or lunatic? Answers will vary
Trying to board a bus in sit wherever you want even though the bus is segregated
Virginia, NC, SC, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama
T
Escaped slaves, upon capture, were to be returned to their masters. Citizens in free states could not interfere with this process
South=Agricultural and slave owning. North=Industrial and free of slavery
Kansas and Nebraska could decide for themselves whether to allow slavery within their borders
equality for women
America's struggle for independence
couldn't vote, serve on a jury, attend college, take courses in Math or Science
Slaves were property. Empowered slaveowners
Led to secession in the South
T
temperance
A call for the ban on alcohol sales in the 1800's
withdraw formally from membership in a union
civil disobedience
