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
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