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Dorothea Dix
Sought better treatment and conditions for prisoners and mentally ill
Abolition
Movement to end slavery
Civil Disobedience
To peacefully disobey laws considered unjust
Daniel Webster
Politician that represented the North and supported the Union. He was against nullification
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Organized the Seneca Falls Convention with Lucretia Mott. She was fighting for women's
suffrage.
Frederick Douglass
Abolitionist speaker, former slave, wrote an autobiography, published an anti-slavery
newspaper
Harriet Tubman
Nicknamed Black Moses for leading slaves on the underground railroad
Henry Clay
Politician that represented the West; nicknamed the Great Compromiser
Henry David Thoreau
Refused to pay his taxes as an act of civil disobedience
Hudson River School
Group of New York artists that painted American landscapes
Horace Mann
Promoted public schools claiming public education was the "great equalizer" of all men
John C Calhoun
Politician that represented Southern views, from South Carolina, played a critical role in the
Nullification Crisis
John James Audubon
, Painted and described different American bird species
Liberator
Antislavery newspaper by William Lloyd Garrison
Reform
To change with the intention of improving
Romanticism
Inspired by nature, stressed emotion, imagination and creativity
Second Great Awakening
Religious movement that inspired a spirit of reform
Sojourner Truth
Former female slave, worked for abolition and women's rights movement
Susan B Anthony
Built the women's rights movement into a national organization and worked for suffrage
into the 20th century
Temperance Movement
Campaigned to stop the abuse of alcohol
Seneca Falls Convention
Women's Rights Meeting in New York
Transcendentalism
American philosophy that the spiritual world is more important than the physical one,
people can find the truth in themselves
Underground Railroad
Series of escape routes for slaves from South to North. Slaves were assisted by a network of
abolitionists.
Irish immigrants
Famine struck their homeland when a disease attacked their main food crop, potatoes
causing the Irish Potato Famine.
Know-Nothing party
Nativist political party that organized to ban Catholics and other foreign born people from
holding office. They also wanted to cut immigration and increase wait time to become a U.S.
citizen.
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