Unit 5 Test

The purpose of the Seneca Falls Convention looked to do what?

• To advance the Women's Rights Movement

• To help improve equality

• To help improve working conditions

• To help improve political freedom

Who was Elizabeth Cady Stanton?

• Woman who played leadership role in women's rights movement at the Seneca Falls Convention

• Location where a slave is truly free

• It was a motto used by the abolitionists to help show how blacks were the same as the white men who ruled them and there is not a difference except for skin color between the two groups.

• Series of safe houses and hiding places for runaway slaves that led to freedom in the North

Why did most Southerners oppose abolition?

• Slave labor was the foundation of their economy.

• They didn't, they fought for their freedom and did not find slaves necessary.

• They feared that they would move North and take jobs from Northerners.

• They thought abolition would help their way of life.

What is abolitionism?

• The abolishing of slavery

• The removal of schools

• The removal of states

• The removal of civil rights

Which region of the country abolished (got rid of) slavery first?

• The North

• The South

• The West

• All of them abolished slavery at the same time

Who was leading the Underground Railroad and helped slaves gain their freedom? Also known as the "Moses" of the U.R.

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Robert Purvis

• Frederick Douglass

What is the Underground Railroad?

• A path for escaped enslaved people to reach freedom in the North

• A literal Underground Railroad

• A railroad connecting Britain and France

• A philosophical concept that shows the duality of man

Who was William Lloyd Garrison?

• White abolitionist who founds New England Anti-Slavery Society and wrote "The Liberator"

• 8th President of the United States

• A Democratic Republican who advocated for a national bank

• a journalist who coined the term "Manifest Destiny"

What was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

• Treaty that ended the Mexican War, granting the U.S. control of Texas, New Mexico, and California in exchange for $15 million

• Railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the continental US

• Acquired in 1818 from Britain, set the northern boundary of the United States at the 49th parallel.

• Negotiation of the border between Oregon and Canada; Americans wanted it at 54º40' (slogan became "Fifty-four forty or fight!"); eventually was put at the 49th parallel

Looking at the map, the land acquired in red shows what land acquisition for the United States?

• Mexican Cession

• Louisiana Purchase

• Oregon Territory

• Original 13 Colonies