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Ch. 14 age of reform Bashara
Ch. 14 age of reform Bashara
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8th Grade
02/18/2009

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suffrage
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the right to vote

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Seneca Falls Convention
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In Seneca Falls, NY. and called for women's rights and suffrage
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Sojourner Truth
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a free slave who fought for women's rights and said the quote, "And ain't I a woman?"
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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which explores slavery and how it is unjust

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Henry David Thoreau
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practiced "civil disobedience" by refusing to pay a tax he believed was unjust
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depression
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A period of low economic activity and widespread unemployment
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Second Great Awakening

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a time period of religious revival (religious ferver)
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Susan B. Anthony
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Quaker who fought for women's rights and temperance
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Harriet Tubman
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runaway slave and most well-known conductor of the Underground Railroad
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nullify
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To cancel or make ineffective
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civil disobedience
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refusing to obey unjust laws

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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organized a women's rights convention in Seneca Falls
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Tariff
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A tax on imports or exports
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temperance
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the use of little or no alcohol
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suffrage
Definition
The right to vote
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veto
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To reject a bill and prevent it from becoming a law
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laissez-faire
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Policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation's economy (not much government control of the economy)
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Frederick Douglass
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the most widley known African American abolitionist and great author
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secede
Definition
to leave or withdraw
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