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What religious movement spawned a number of important reform movements?
Second Great Awakening
What was the aim of the Seneca Falls Convention?
To promote women's rights and suffrage
Who were the two main women of the women's rights movement?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
What is one of the progressive reform movements that occured in the 1800's?
temperance, public education, women's suffrage, child labor, worker's rights
How did William Lloyd Garrison's approach to abolition differ from earlier approaches?
He advocated passive resistance and non-violent methods
Who was Nat Turner and what did he do?
He was a slave who led a rebellion. He and others killed many white families.
Explain the Missouri Compromise.
There were 11 slave and 11 free states. The Compromise cut slavery off at the 36'30' line except for Missouri. Maine was admitted as a free state.
What was the Nullification Crisis?
South Carolina hated the tariff that the federal government placed. They said they didn't have to pay it because of states' rights.
What 1849 discovery spurred western expansion?
gold
Name one aspect of the Compromise of 1850.
CA - free state, Utah & NM to decide for themselves, a new TX/NM boundary, made it easier for slaveowners to recover runways under the Fugitive Slave Act
What war resulted from Mexico not recognizing TX independence, TX wanting to be a U.S. state, and U.S. desire for westward expansion?
The Mexican-American War
What was the main idea of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Kansas and Nebraska would have popular sovereignty to decide if slavery would be legal.
