Social Reform Movements : Temperance (ban of alcohol) Women’s Suffrage (right to vote) Education Reform Abolitionism
Temperance
Horace Mann reformed education when he supported mandatory Public School for all American children.
First and Second Great Awakenings: Religious revival movements where Americans rededicated themselves to Faith.
Abolitionism: the movement to end slavery
William Lloyd Garrison and The Liberator
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
Sojourner Truth
Frederick Douglas
John Brown Captured and executed after breaking into the military warehouse at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia
Women’s Suffrage
Susan B. Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucretia Mott
Seneca Falls Convention 1848 “all men and women are created equal” Declaration of Sentiments
Zachary Taylor (Whig) th President
Millard Fillmore (Whig) th President Gadsden Purchase Compromise of 1850
1849 The 49’ers
Compromise of 1850 North gets California as free state South gets Fugitive Slave Act
Franklin Pierce (Democratic) th President Kansas-Nebraska Act
Overturns Missouri Compromise … popular sovereignty on issue of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska Territories Kansas - Nebraska Act, 1854
Bleeding Kansas Abolitionist John Brown leads attacks in Kansas against pro-slavery settlers
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book Uncle Tom’s Cabin caused an increase in the number of abolitionists in the North during the 1850’s
James Buchanan (Democratic) th President Dred Scott Case
1856