Reform Movements

Define abolitionist

• Sought to bring an end to slavery.

• Someone in favor of women's rights.

• Wanted to bring an end to the production and consumption of alcohol.

• Sought to end the mistreatment of prison inmates.

What was an effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Southerners loved the book.

• It described the evils of slavery, and further divided the North & South.

• It helped to unite the Northern and Western states.

• It caused a slave revolt in the South.

Series of safe houses which helped slaves escape to the North.

• Freedom Trail

• The Hallelujah Trail

• The Underground Railroad

• The Peace Train

Escaped slave who published antislavery writings and gave speeches throughout the North.

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Nat Turner

• Frederick Douglass

Escaped slave who risked her life to help over 300 slaves escape to freedom.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Douglass

• Dorthea Dix

Quaker and abolitionist who published an antislavery newspaper called The Liberator.

• Frederick Douglass

• Dorthea Dix

• William Lloyd Garrison

• John Brown

She wrote a novel about the evils of slavery which angered both the North and South.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Douglas

• Dorthea Dix

Which land acquisition was made as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

• Annexation of Texas

• Louisiana Purchase

• Mexican Cession

• Florida

What territory was acquired in 1803?

• Florida

• Louisiana Territory

• Oregon Territory

• California

What land acquisition was made in 1845?

• Texas Annexation

• Louisiana Purchase

• Mexican Cession

• Oregon Territory