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Title: Chapter 8

Description: Section 3&4

Total Flash Cards: 13

Created: 10/24/2011 14:36:10

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freedman
 Definition
person who has been freed from slavery
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Nat Turner
 Definition
a slave was more successful in carrying out his plans for revolt. Had taught himself to readthe Bible and believed that he had receied a sign from God to instructing him to lead his people to freedom
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abolition movemrnt
 Definition
nineteenth century movement that sought an end to slavery
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William Lloyd Garrison
 Definition
a printer who lived in Boston became one of the leading abolitionists
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Frederick Douglass
 Definition
A former slave whose booming voice filled lecture halls with touching stories about the difficulty of his life as a slave
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Gag Rule
 Definition
a law which prohibited debate and discussion in Congress on the subject of slavery, some northerners supported them
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matrilineal
 Definition
when inheritance is passed down through the female side of the family
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Sojourner Truth
 Definition
a former slave from New York who held audiences spell bound with her powerful sppech and arguments
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women's movement
 Definition
movement beginning in the mid 1800's in the United States that sough greater
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Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Staton
 Definition
active reformers, supporting particularly the temperance and abolitionsists causes
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Lucretia Mott
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Helped found the American Antislavery Society and Philadelphia Female Anti- Slavery Society
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Amalia Boomer
 Definition
attended the Senec Falls Convention, would come a leading voice for women's rights
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Married Women's Poverty Act
 Definition
guarenteering many property rights for women