This is a philosophical movement that emphasized living simply and focus on nature.

This person was involved in social reforms and improvements in prisons and mental hospitals.

In the 1830s Americans demanded this for public school.

This individual was an educational reform leader.

Thoreau proposed a principle that people can peacefully protest and refuse to obey a law if they think it is unjust. This principle is known as

What was the result of the Nat Turner Rebellion

This was the effort to prohibit the drinking of alcohol.

In 1848 which two individuals held a woman’s rights convention?

The Lowell Mills were famous for all of the following EXCEPT

This former slave published The North Star and worked to end slavery through political means

This former slave, who changed her name, spoke for abolition and women’s rights

This term refers to a time “before the Civil War”

This man was the publisher of The Liberator

This meeting marked the beginning of an organized women’s rights movement

This is a worker who is beginning the process of learning a skilled craft

This is a work stoppage

This upheld the rights of labor by declaring work stoppages legal

What term refers to the belief that married women’s activities should be limited to housework.

In what way was the National Trades’ Union unusual for its time?

Proposal that outlawed slavery in any territory gained from the War with Mexico.

Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation.

What was a part of the Compromise of 1850?

The right of residents of a territory to vote for or against slavery .

Senator from Illinois who ran for president against Abraham Lincoln. Wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Freeport Doctrine.

Became president when Zachary Taylor died in 1850. He was a Whig. Events during his presidency include the Compromise of 1850.

A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders.

Laws passed by Norther states forbidding the imprisonment of escaped slaves were known as Personal Liberty Laws.

A system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada.

American abolitionist who was born a slave on a Maryland plantation. She escaped to the North in 1849 and became the most renowned conductor on the Underground Railroad.

Anti-slavery advocate who believed that God had called upon him to abolish slavery. He engaged in violent actions to abolish slavery which resulted in the deaths of his five sons, and eventually to his hanging.

Bleeding Kansas was a sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent.

A policy of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones (immigrants).

Who formed the Republican party?

An American editor of a leading newspaper, a founder of the Republican party, reformer and politician.

The 15^th President of the United States (1857-1861). He tried to maintain a balance between proslavery and antislavery factions, but his moderate views angered radicals in both North and South, and he was unable to prevent the secession of South Carolina on December 20, 1860.

A black slave who had lived with his master for five years in Illinois and Wisconsin Territory (free area) and sued for freedom on the basis of his long residence on free soil. The ruling on this case was that he was a black slave and not a citizen, so he had no rights.

Freeport Doctrine said that the exclusion of slavery in a territory could be determined by the refusal of the voters to enact any laws that would protect slave property.

Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin was

A law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery was called

Who was the first republican president who did not want slavery to extend to new states. He wanted to preserve the Union.

The 11 Southern states that left the Union after Abraham Lincoln was elected president were named

The Confederate attack on this fort marked the start of the Civil War

This man served as President of the Confederate States of America

This was the name of the Union war plan which called for encircling and blockading the southern states

General who had opposed secession but was loyal to the South because he was from Virginia

Both the North and the South turned to ______________ , or drafting of civilians to serve in the army

President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation after the Battle of _______

At this battle it became clear that the North/Union would win

Arlington National Cemetery was created from land previously owned by

This general used a “scorched earth” policy during his “march to the sea”

Famous as the site of the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee

He was an American stage actor who, as part of a conspiracy plot assassinated Abraham Lincoln

What was President Lincoln’s decree that freed slaves in the South but not the North?

Who was the Civil War nurse who started the American Red Cross?

This law abolished slavery in the United States

The majority of battles during the Civil War took place

The Union victory at Vicksburg, Mississippi, led to

The Civil War took place between

To this day, the South is still one of the most poverty-stricken areas in the country