1. Social Reform Movements : Temperance (ban of alcohol) Women’s Suffrage (right to vote) Education Reform Abolitionism

2. Temperance

3. Horace Mann reformed education when he supported mandatory Public School for all American children.

4. First and Second Great Awakenings: Religious revival movements where Americans rededicated themselves to Faith.

5. Abolitionism: the movement to end slavery

6. William Lloyd Garrison and The Liberator

7. Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad

8. Sojourner Truth

9. Frederick Douglas

10. John Brown Captured and executed after breaking into the military warehouse at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia

11. Women’s Suffrage

12. Susan B. Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucretia Mott

13. Seneca Falls Convention 1848 “all men and women are created equal” Declaration of Sentiments

14. Zachary Taylor (Whig) 1848-1850 12th President

15. Millard Fillmore (Whig) 1850-1852 13th President Gadsden Purchase Compromise of 1850

16. 1849 The 49’ers

18. Compromise of 1850 North gets California as free state South gets Fugitive Slave Act

19. Franklin Pierce (Democratic) 1852-1856 14th President Kansas-Nebraska Act

20. Overturns Missouri Compromise … popular sovereignty on issue of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska Territories Kansas - Nebraska Act, 1854

21. Bleeding Kansas Abolitionist John Brown leads attacks in Kansas against pro-slavery settlers

22. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book Uncle Tom’s Cabin caused an increase in the number of abolitionists in the North during the 1850’s

24. James Buchanan (Democratic) 1856-1860 15th President Dred Scott Case

25. 1856