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William Lloyd Garrison

________- the most radical white abolitionist of his era, was active in religious movements in Massachusetts and was the editor of his own newspaper called The Liberator.

Temperance Movement

________- An organized campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption.

Cottage industry

________- system in which manufactures provided the materials for goods to be produced at home.

Strike

________- a work stoppage in order to force an employer to respond to demands.

Lucretia Mott

________- quaker activist in both the abolitionist and womes movements; with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she was a principal irganizer of the Senca Falls Convention in 1848.

Seneca Falls convention

________- 1848 womans right meeting at which the Declaration of RIghts and Sentiments was presented.

Civil disobedience

________- the peaceful refusal to disobey laws.

Gag rule

________- 1835 law passed by Southern congress which made it illegal to talk of abolition or ant- slavery arguments in Congress.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

________- New England writer who nurtured pride in the emerging American culture y practicing Transcendentalism.

Abolition

________- the call to outlaw slavery.

Sojourner Truth

________- a former slave who spoke against the evils of slavery and also for womens rights.

Emancipation

________- the freeing of the salves.

David Walker

________- a free black, advised blacks to fight for freedom rather than to wait for slave owners to end slavery.

Antebellum

________- the period before a war especially the American civil war.

Second Great Awakening

________- A 19th- century religious movement in which individual responsibility for seeking salvation was emphasized, along with the need for personal and social improvement.