Try Magic Notes and save time.Try it free

Try Magic Notes and save timeCrush your year with the magic of personalized studying.Try it free

Unit 1 Set 2 Civil War and Reconstruction (1.4-1.6)

5.0 (2 reviews)

Get a hint

Underground Railroad

Click the card to flip 👆

1 / 27

1 / 27

Terms in this set (27)

Underground Railroad

A system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom (in the northern free states or Canada, with some routes leading to Mexico or overseas).

Anti-slavery activists who demanded the immediate end of slavery.

An anti-slavery newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison. It drew attention to abolition, both positive and negative, causing a war of words between supporters of slavery and those opposed.

An antislavery newspaper published by Frederick Douglass, the preeminent Black abolitionist, writer and orator of his era.

The Second Great Awakening

A series of religious revivals starting in 1801, based on Methodism and Baptism. Stressed a religious philosophy of salvation through good deeds and tolerance for all Protestant sects. Led to increased support for social reform such as the abolition of slavery.