Social Reform Movements:

Temperance (ban of alcohol)

Women’s Suffrage (right to vote)

Education Reform

Abolitionism

Temperance

Horace Mann reformed education when he supported mandatory Public School for all American children.

First and Second Great Awakenings:

Religious revival movements where Americans rededicated themselves to Faith.

Abolitionism:

the movement to end slavery

William Lloyd Garrison and The Liberator

Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad

Sojourner Truth

Frederick Douglas

John Brown

Captured and executed after breaking into the military warehouse at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia

Women’s Suffrage

Susan B. Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucretia Mott

Seneca Falls Convention 1848

“all men and women are created equal”

Declaration of Sentiments

Zachary Taylor (Whig)

1848-1850 12th President

Millard Fillmore (Whig)

1850-1852 13th President

Gadsden Purchase

Compromise of 1850

1849The 49’ers

Compromise of 1850North gets California as free state

South gets Fugitive Slave Act

Franklin Pierce (Democratic)

1852-1856 14th President

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Overturns Missouri Compromise … popular sovereignty on issue of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska Territories

Kansas - Nebraska Act, 1854

Bleeding Kansas

Abolitionist John Brown leads attacks in Kansas against pro-slavery settlers

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book Uncle Tom’s Cabin caused an increase in the number of abolitionists in the North during the 1850’s

James Buchanan (Democratic)

1856-1860 15th President

Dred Scott Case

1856