6.5 & 6.6 Vocabulary Word Review

A person who has been freed from slavery

• freedman

• temperance

• abolition

• matrilineal

A man who organized and led the only sustained armed uprising by enslaved African AMericans in American History. He was tried and hanged for this.

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Henry David Thoreau

• Nat Turner

• Horace Mann

A 19th century movement that sought to end slavery

• temperance movement

• penitentiary movement

• abolition movement

• Second Great Awakening

An American journalist who published The Liberator, a strong anti-slavery newspaper. He helped found the Anti-Slavery society and was its president for 23 years.

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Nat Turner

• Horace Mann

• Henry David Thoreau

He was born into slavery and ESCAPED to the North in 1838. He became a speaker in the abolitionist cause, he wrote a book about his life and became an advisor to President Lincoln and later supported the women's rights movement.

• Henry David Thoreau

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Frederick Douglas

• Sojourner Truth

A rule last ing from 1836-1844 that banned the debate about slavery in Congress.

• matrilineal rule

• abolitionist rule

• civil rule

• gag rule

When an inheritance is passed down through the female side of the family

• patrilineal

• matrilineal

• gag rule

• abolitionist

She was born into slavery and later gained her freedom. She went on to become a leading evangelist and reformer in the both the abolitionist movement and the movement for women's rights.

• Lucretia Mott

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Sojouner Truth

• Brigham Young

A movement beginning in the mid-1800s, in the United States that sought greater rights and opportunities for women.

• women's movement

• abolitionist movement

• revivalist movement

• Second Great Awakening

She worked hard for women's rights reform, and helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention

• Lucretia Mott

• Brigham Young

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Tubman