Famous People Reform Movements Famous Events Key Issues Reform in America Key Concepts
The president of the United States elected in 1860
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The member of Congress responsible for the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850
Who is Henry Clay?
The Southerner who tried to nullify the federal tariff and provided the Southern position on slavery in the territories
Who is John C. Calhoun?
The Massachusetts senator opposed to the attempts by South Carolina to nullify the federal tariff
Who is Daniel Webster?
The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin who presented a negative view of slavery
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The movement to end slavery in the United States
What is abolitionism?
The movement to provide equal rights to females
What is women’s rights?
The movement to limit or outlaw the use of alcoholic drinks
What is temperance?
The movement to provide free schooling to all children
What is public education?
The need to change things for the better
What is reform?
The Supreme Court case that recognized slavery in the United States
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
The election where Lincoln was elected president which caused the southern states to secede from the Union
What is the Election of 1860?
The law where California became a free state, New Mexico and Utah were organized as territories, and a strict federal fugitive slave law was adopted
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The law that organized Kansas and Nebraska as territories and repealed the line outlawing slavery in the Louisiana Purchase
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The failed amendment in 1846 to prohibit slavery in any land acquired from Mexico
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
The practice in the South of forced labor of African Americans
What is slavery?
The belief that states are sovereign and have rights independent of the national government
What is states’ rights?
A tax or duty on an import to protect a domestic industry of a country
What is a protective tariff?
The support and loyalty to a certain region of a country
What is sectionalism?
The act of a state leaving the union of states of a country
What is secession?
A leader of the women’s rights movement in the 19 th century
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
The meeting in 1848 that called for equal rights for women
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
The African American who escaped from slavery and became a leader of the abolitionist movement
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The document passed in 1848 that stated “all men and women are created equal”
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
The leader for free public school education in Massachusetts
Who is Horace Mann?
An agreement reached when two sides with different positions each give up something
What is a compromise?
The principle that says that all powers of government belong to the people who can change or abolish their government
What is popular sovereignty?
A tax or duty on the import of a product into a country
What is tariff?
A person who wanted to bring the practice of slavery to an end
Who is an abolitionist?
The status of a law or practice that violates a constitution
What is unconstitutional?