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Vocab -Transcendentalism -Abstinence -Segregate -Emancipation -Suffrage -Naturalize -Annex -Secessionist Know these Amendments: ​-13, 14, and 15 Know these Battles: -Bull Run—proved to both sides the war was going to last -Antietam-Bloodiest single day battle of the Civil War -Gettysburg—Lee failed to bring war to the North -Vicksburg—Union controlled the Mississippi River -Sherman’s March—brought war to the South with a vengeance Multiple Choice: -Protestant revivalists preached that people are capable of shaping their own destinies -The American Colonization Society promoted migration of free black people to Liberia -One main source of division in the abolitionist movement was the extent of women involvement -Fredrick Douglas started an abolitionist newspaper -Some northern workers opposed the antislavery movement because free blacks accepted lower wages than whites -At the Seneca Falls Convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton presented a resolution calling for women’s suffrage -When immigrants came to the US, they settled mostly in the North and West -Irish immigrants would work for less pay -Charles Finney was the central figure in the revival movement who gave sermons emphasizing individuals power to reform themselves -Thoreau believed in the value of leisure and the benefits of living closely with nature -Maine became the first state to ban alcoholic beverages -In the early 1800s, prisoners were punished by being isolated -Utopian reformers believed that it was possible to create a place where greed and sin did not exist -The abolition movement created increased tensions between the North and the South -The abolition movement was the primary means by which women entered into politics -At the First Battle of Bull Run the Union troops were unorganized -General Robert E. Lee’s army would never seriously threaten union soil -The Gettysburg Address remained listeners why the war was being fought -The Emancipation Proclamation did nothing to free the slaves in the border states -The Reconstruction Act of 1867 placed the South under military rule -After Pres. Johnson’s impeachment, he lacked any real power -Uncle Tom’s Cabin, brought the evils of slavery to the North -Charles Sumner was beaten unconscious People: -Emerson: Leader of the transcendentalist movement -Mann: Leader in education reform -Dix: Avid prison reformist -Garrison: Famous radical abolitionist -Stowe: Wrote a famous antislavery novel -Truth: Believed African American women had a place in the women’s right movement -Tubman: Leader of the Underground Railroad Know the 3 strengths of both the North and the South

[5] Declaration of Sentiments on the Seneca Falls Convention (1848)

Period 4: 1800–1848: The Meaning of Democracy in an Era of Economic and Territorial Expansion

Chapter 13 - The Reform Impulse