Reform Movement Vocabulary

Question 1

Temperance movement

Answer 1

A social reform effort begun in the mid-1800’s to encourage people to drink less alcohol

Question 2

Asylum

Answer 2

Institution for the car of the mentally ill

Question 3

Branding

Answer 3

To burn a mark into something

Question 4

Suffrage

Answer 4

Voting rights

Question 5

Emancipation

Answer 5

Freedom from slavery

Question 6

Underground Railroad

Answer 6

Network of people who helped thousands of slaves escape to the north by providing transportation and hiding places

Question 7

Tenements

Answer 7

Poorly built, overcrowded housing where many immigrants and lived

Question 8

Secede

Answer 8

To break away

Question 9

Discrimination

Answer 9

Policy or attitude that denies equal rights to certain people

Question 10

Prejudice

Answer 10

Unfavorable opinion about people who are different

Question 11

Cotton belt

Answer 11

Region stretching from Georgia to eat Texas where most cotton was grown

Question 12

Sectionalism

Answer 12

A devotion to the interests of one geographic region rather than those of the country as a whole

Question 13

Popular sovereignty

Answer 13

Principle that would allow voters in a particular territory to decide whether to ban or allow slavery

Question 14

Annex

Answer 14

To take control of land

Question 15

Manifest destiny

Answer 15

Belief that God wants us to go coast to coast

Question 16

Self-sufficient

Answer 16

Able to exist and function without help

Question 17

Democratic

Answer 17

Political and social equality

Question 18

Vigilante

Answer 18

Person who deals out punishment without holding a trial

Question 19

Abolition

Answer 19

The complete end of slavery