| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Suffrage | the right to vote |
| Poll tax | a tax of fixed amount per person that had to be paid before the person could vote |
| Reform | an improvement or change for the better |
| Discrimination | the unfair treatment of a group; unequal treatment because of person's race, religion, ethnic background or place of birth |
| Temperance | the use of little or no alcoholic drink |
| Deprive | deny or keep something away from |
| Strike | a stoppage of work by workers to force an employer to meet demands |
| Democracy | government exercised either directly by the people or through elected representatives, in which exists pronciples of social equality and respect |
| Underground Railroad | the system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the north |
| Abolitionist | a person who strongly favored doing away with slavery |
| Emancipate | to free from slavery |
| Isabel Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony | three main leaders of the suffrage movement |
| the right to vote | what does suffrage mean |
| abolitionist moment | the anti-slavery movement |
| Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Harriet Tubman | three main leaders of the abolitionist movement |
| morally wrong, cruel and inhumane | the leaders of the abolitionist movement believed that slavery was |
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