American History 8th grade STAAR review 3

2nd Great Awakening

• A movement to try and ban alcohol

• A movement to end slavery and give women right to vote

• Movement to encourage people to be more religious ( social reform)

Temperance Movement

• Movement to ban or lessen the use of alcohol

• Movement to give ex slaves the right to vote

• Movement to allow children to go to school

Abolitionist

• People who spoke out against women's rights

• People who fought to end slavery

• People who fought for education reform

Women's rights movement

• movement to give women equal rights (especially voting)

• movement to give students equal rights

• movement to allow women to attend school

Suffrage

• the right to attend school

• the right to suffer

• the right to vote

Susan B. Anthony

• Leader in the fight for women's rights

• Conductor in the Underground Railroad

• Leader in the fight for better treatment of the mentally ill

Dorthea Dix

• Fought for women's right to vote

• Fought for prison reform and better treatment of the mentally ill

• Fought for education reform and children's rights

Sectionalism

• different parts of the country developed different ways of living due to geography

• dividing political parties based on the population of each state

• different political groups that divided the United States

Northern Economy

• large farms and slave labor

• textile mills (factories) , trade and immigrants

• mining for gold and silver

Southern Economy

• textile mills (factories) , trade, and immigrants

• large plantations (cotton) and slave labor

• Mining for gold and silver