Chapter 9 - Reform Movements - Vocab

the campaign to end slavery in the United States

• manifest destiny

• abolition

• unity plan

• sectionalism

someone who wants to end slavery

• whig

• free patriot

• midnight loyalist

• abolitionist

a person who argues for or supports a cause

• advocate

• martyr

• democrat

• republican

an original record of a past event, usually created by someone who actually saw or participated in the event

• true source

• secondary source

• primary source

• first hand source

a record of an event that is created after the event by someone who was not there

• distant source

• secondary source

• primary source

• political source

loyalty to one's own region or localized interests, instead of to the country as a whole

• divided cause

• sectionalism

• democratic oath

• favoritism

the right to vote

• suffrage

• liberty

• sectionalism

• patriotism

a list that gathers information from different primary and secondary sources into one place

• full source

• main source

• tertiary source

• constructed source

A leader in women's rights during the 1800s who believed that "unless women could change laws, they could do very little to change their role in society," which started with the right to vote.

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Dorothea Lynde Dix

• Horace Mann

• Frederick Douglass

This individual was an abolitionist, reformer, and newspaper publisher, who believed that the system of slavery would soon fall apart if the South left the Union.

• William Lloyd Garrson

• Frederick Douglas

• Mary Church Terrell

• Susan B. Anthony