| A | B |
|---|
| Second Great Awakening | late 1700s–early 1800s movement of Christian renewal |
| abolition | complete end to slavery |
| abolition movement | campaign to end slavery |
| suffrage | right to vote |
| temperance movement | movement to encourage people not to drink alcohol |
| common school movement | movement to have all children, regardless of background, taught in a common place |
| Horace Mann | education reformer |
| Dorothea Dix | prison & Mental illness reformer |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | supporter of women’s rights |
| sectionalism | situation in which people favor the interests of one region over those of the entire country |
| Compromise of 1850 | law that maintained America’s slave-state/free-state balance |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | the law that divided the rest of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories |
| Missouri Compromise | passed in 1820 that admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state to preserve the balance of free and slave states in the U.S. |
| Eli Whitney | inventor of the cotton gin |
| interchangeable parts | parts of a machine that are exactly the same |
| technology | the tools used to produce items or to do work |
| Robert Fulton | an American inventor who tested the first full-sized commercial steamboat in the U.S. |
| telegraph | a device that could send information over wires across great distances |
| cotton gin | machine that removes seeds from cotton |
| John Brown’s raid | Brown’s attack on the Harpers Ferry arsenal |
| Fugitive Slave Act | law that made it a crime to aid runaway slaves |
| Dred Scott | slave who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom in 1846 |
| Lincoln Douglas debates | debates between senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas |
| overseers | workers hired to watch over and direct the work of slaves |
| slavery | the practice of owning a person as property, especially for their labor |
