1. Abolitionists: William Lloyd Garrison published the Liberator which was against slavery

2. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin which was against slavery.

3. Horace Mann led the reform movement for free education for all children.

4. Temperance was the reform movement against drinking alcohol.

5. The Seneca Falls convention in 1848 helped move the women’s rights movement forward.

6. Elizabeth Cady Stanton delivered the “Declaration of the rights of men and women” at Seneca Falls.

7. Dorothea Dix led the prison reform and mental health reform movements.

8. The attack on Fort Sumter, South Carolina was the first battle of the Civil War in 1861.

9. The Battle of Gettysburg was The turning point in the Civil War because of the Union win and the huge loss of human life.

10. The Battle of Vicksburg was important because the North gained control of the Mississippi River on July 4, 1863.