A | B |
Harriet Tubman | Most famous conductor of Underground Railroad |
Seneca Falls Convention | Began the fight for women's rights |
Abolitionists | This group wanted to stop slavery |
Horace Mann | Tried to improve public education |
Dorothea Dix | This person tried to make prisons better & built hospitals for mentally ill |
William Lloyd Garrison | The abolitionist published a newspaper called The Liberator |
Frederick Douglass | An escaped slave (abolitionist) published the newspaper The North Star |
Monroe Doctrine | U.S. said that European nations must stay out of western hemisphere (The Americas) |
Balance of power | Refers to sectional balance in Congress (slave states vs. free states) |