Topic 5

American Colonization Society

• proposed to bring the fifty states together as one country

•  proposed to end slavery by setting up a colony in Africa

• proposed to show that the South was dependent on Plantation Agriculture

abolitionist

• a person wanting to help end slavery

• a swift growth in cotton production

• a person who believes that slavery should exist

Underground Railroad

• wealthy families took the underground railroad to travel the U.S.

• a railroad system that took people from the East to the West

• network of people who secretly helped slaves escape

civil disobedience

• when slaves disobey their owners in the South

• following a law even though you don't agree

•  breaking a law you believe is wrong

debtors

• People who could not pay money they owed

• People who were indentured servants

• People who volunteered in the U.S. Army

temperance movement

• a movement for woment to get the right to vote

• a movement against alcohol abuse

• a movement to end slavery in the U.S.

Seneca Falls Convention

•  a convention where they fought for women’s rights

• a convention where they wrote the Declaration of Independence

• a convention to create water falls in Senaca

social reform

• an organized attempt to improve what is unjust or wrong

• an attempt to change one's life for the better

• the protection of natural resources of the world

women’s rights movement

• a movement to stop alcoholism in America

• a movement to give women equal pay in the workplace

• a movement to fight for equal rights for women

Seneca Falls Convention

• a convention to stop the sale of alcohol

• a convention to fight for equal rights for women

• a convention to stop women from voting