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eing a US political party founded in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into US territories and the admission of slave states into the Union.

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A controversial ruling made by the Supreme Court in 1857, shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War. Dred Scott, a slave, sought to be declared a free man on the basis that he had lived for a time in a “free” territory with his master.

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restriction of interest to a narrow sphere; undue concern with local interests or petty distinctions at the expense of general well-being.

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was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.

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was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.

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was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century enslaved people of African descent in the United States in efforts to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies.

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An American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States.

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was the first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". Held in Seneca Falls, New York.

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Two early and prominent activists for abolition and women's rights.

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William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer.

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def:  political and social policies implemented with the aim of eliminating SOCIAL PROBLEMS. Social reform movements, and the bureaucratic administrative structures set up to implement such reforms, can be seen as a major feature differentiating modern industrial societies from earlier societies.

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a school supported by public funds.

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economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories.

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def:the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.

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def: An artificial waterway built across New York state in the early nineteenth century, linking Lake Erie and the Hudson River.

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an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.

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an enslaved African American who led a rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831, that resulted in the deaths of 55 to 65 white people

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def:a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery.

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def:Racial segregation, especially in public schools, that happens “by fact” rather than by legal requirement. For example, often the concentration of African-Americans in certain neighborhoods produces neighborhood schools that are predominantly black, or segregated in fact , although not by law .

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def: Before the civil war.