Chapter 9 Test Flashcards
temperance movement
and organized campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption
transcendentalism
police got through a process of spiritual discovery and insight, people could rise above, or transcend, the material world
segregate
separated according to race
abstinence
refraining from doing something
abolitionist movement
The movement to put an end to slavery during the late 1700s
emancipation
freeing of enslaved persons
gag rule
rule passed by the House of Representatives in 1836 prohibiting anti-slavery petitions from being read or acted upon
suffrage
The right to vote
naturalize
to apply for and be granted American citizenship
discrimination
unequal treatment on people
William Lloyd Garrison
denounced moderation and called for an immediate and to slavery, his newspaper the liberator, and only protested forceful actions
Frederick Douglass
founded abolitionist newspaper the Northstar in 1847
Harriet Tubman
mostly underground railroad conductor, save 300 people
Catherine Beecher
established the heartfort female seminary where she taught her book to encourage women to build America stronger through household advice
Lacretia Mott
organize Seneca Falls convention on women’s rights