What do we call people who worked to correct the problems of society?
reformers
What was the slavery reform movement called?
abolition
What was the alcohol reform movement called?
temperance
What was the name of the nation in Africa set up for freed slaves?
Liberia
Who was the best known African- American abolitionist?
Frederick Douglass
What was the name of Frederick Douglass’s newspaper?
North Star
Who were the sisters, born in South Carolina, who worked as abolitionists and women’s rights advocates?
Grimke Sisters
What was the name of the network of abolitionists who helped slaves escape to freedom?
Underground railroad
What escaped slave woman made 19 trips to help slaves escape on the underground railroad?
Harriet Tubman
What section of the country were the strongest supporters of abolition found?
North
Who was the abolitionist who published the Liberator?
William Lloyd Garrison
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were leaders in what reform movement?
Women’s rights
What former slave was active in the women’s rights movement?
Sojourner Truth
Who was the women’s rights advocate who later had her picture on a dollar coin?
Susan B. Anthony
What was the name of the convention designed to bring attention to the problems women faced?
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
What woman went to medical school at Geneva College in New York?
Elizabeth Blackwell
What person was known for helping mentally ill people?
Dorothea Dix
What man is associated with school reform?
Horace Mann
What was the name for laws which banned the sale of alcohol? (named after a state)
Maine Laws
What amendment gave women the right to vote?
19th Amendment (1920)
What amendment banned alcohol? (called prohibition)
18th Amendment (1919)
What amendment repealed prohibition?
21st Amendment (1933)
What Amendment freed the slaves?
13th Amendment (1865)
What amendment gave slaves the right to vote?
15th Amendment (1870)