1. ANTEBELLUM
Latin for “before the war” In our case: the time before the Civil War which started in 1860
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2. ABOLITION
The action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution
In our case: abolitionists wanted to
end slavery in the United State
Became more radical
Seen as a threat to the Southern
way of life

3. ABOLITION
Frederick Douglass: escaped slave who wrote for The Liberator and gave anti-slavery speeches, his life story put a human face on slavery William Lloyd Garrison: a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer

4. ABOLITION Harriet Beecher Stowe: author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin Uncle Tom
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Simon Legree
Eva

5. ABOLITION
Gabriel Prosser: a literate enslaved blacksmith who planned a large slave rebellion in the Richmond area in the summer of Nat Turner: an enslaved African American who led a rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia, on August 21, 1831, that resulted in the deaths of 60 white people

6. WOMEN’S RIGHTS
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Together with Lucretia Mott, she led the Seneca Falls Convention in Susan B. Anthony: Susan Brownell Anthony was an American social reformer and feminist activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.

7. WESTERN EXPANSION & INVENTIONS
John Deere: was an American blacksmith and manufacturer who invented the first commercially successful steel plow in 1837

8. WESTERN EXPANSION & INVENTIONS
Samuel Morse: an American painter and inventor, he contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs