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Chapter 8
Section 3&4
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History
11th Grade
10/24/2011

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freedman
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person who has been freed from slavery
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Nat Turner
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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
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nineteenth century movement that sought an end to slavery
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William Lloyd Garrison
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a printer who lived in Boston became one of the leading abolitionists
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Frederick Douglass
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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
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a law which prohibited debate and discussion in Congress on the subject of slavery, some northerners supported them
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matrilineal
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when inheritance is passed down through the female side of the family
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Sojourner Truth
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a former slave from New York who held audiences spell bound with her powerful sppech and arguments
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women's movement
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movement beginning in the mid 1800's in the United States that sough greater
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Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Staton
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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
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attended the Senec Falls Convention, would come a leading voice for women's rights
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Married Women's Poverty Act
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guarenteering many property rights for women
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