Chapters 8 & 9 (8th Grade) Flashcards
(44 cards)
The first state to ban slavery in its constitution..
Ohio
The group that encouraged African-American slaves to return to Africa..
American Colonization Society
People who wanted to get rid of slavery were known as…
abolitionists
The antislavery newspaper started by William Lloyd Garrison…
The Liberator
The Boston tailor who wrote the pamphlet: Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World…
David Walker
The most prominent African-American speaker against slavery was…
Frederick Douglass
The rebellious slave ship where the captives eventually regained their freedom…
Amistad
The series of secret passages that helped slaves escaped was a former slave named…
Underground Railroad
The most famous of the people who helped slaves escape was a former slave named…
Harriet Tubman
An African-American who not only fought for slaves’ freedom but for women’s rights…
Soujourner Truth
The site of the first-ever women’s rights convention…
Seneca Falls, New York
The right for women to vote is known as…
suffrage
The women who dedicated her life to getting the women the right to vote…
Susan B. Anthony
The constitutional amendment that finally gave women the right to vote…
19th Amendment
Unsettled land is also known as…
frontier
Owners of ranches in places such as early California were known as…
rancheros
Another name for church community…
mission
The idea that the United States should expand all the way to the Pacific Ocean was known as…
manifest destiny
The first trail heading towards the west, paved by Captain William Becknell, was known as…
Santa Fe Trail
The German immigrant who set up a fur trading outpost in Oregon was…
John Jacob Astor
The most commonly trapped animals used for their furs were…
beavers, minks, and otters
Gruff fur-trappers who traveled by themselves throughout the west were known as…
mountain men
People who travel from place to place to preach religion are known as…
missionaries
The distance of the Oregon Trail…
2,000 miles
