AMERICAN GOVERNMENT ROOTS AND
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VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND DETAILED
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
●● Abolitionist
Answer: A supporter, especially in early 1800s, of ending the institution
of slavery.
●● Civil Rights
Answer: The government-protected rights of individuals against
arbitrary and/or discriminatory treatment by governments or individuals
●● Equal Protection Clause
Answer: Section of the 14th Amendment that guarantees that all citizens
receive "equal protection of the laws."
●● Frederick Douglass
Answer: Former slave born in early 1800s who became a leading
abolitionist writer and suffragist
●● Elizabeth Cady Stanton
, Answer: Leading nineteenth-century feminist, suffragist, and abolitionist
who (w/ Lucretia Mott) organized the Seneca Falls Convention. She also
founded the National Women's Suffrage Org. (NAWSA) w/ Susan B.
Anthony
●● Lucretia Mott
Answer: Leading 1800s feminist, suffragist, abolitionist and co-
organizer of Seneca Falls Convention
●● Seneca Falls Convention
Answer: First major feminist meeting held in NY state in 1848.
Produced "Declaration of Sentiments" calling for women's rights
●● Dred Scott v. Sanford
Answer: 1857 SCOTUS decision ruling Missouri Compromise
unconstitutional and denied citizenship rights to enslaved blacks.
Heightens tensions between pro-slavery south and abolitionist north
before Civil War
●● Emancipation Proclamation
Answer: Pres. Lincoln issued this on Jan 1, 1863, in the third year of the
Civil War, "freeing" slaves in Confederacy (but not border states).
●● 13th Amendment
REFORM COMPREHENSIVE TEST BANK
VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND DETAILED
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
●● Abolitionist
Answer: A supporter, especially in early 1800s, of ending the institution
of slavery.
●● Civil Rights
Answer: The government-protected rights of individuals against
arbitrary and/or discriminatory treatment by governments or individuals
●● Equal Protection Clause
Answer: Section of the 14th Amendment that guarantees that all citizens
receive "equal protection of the laws."
●● Frederick Douglass
Answer: Former slave born in early 1800s who became a leading
abolitionist writer and suffragist
●● Elizabeth Cady Stanton
, Answer: Leading nineteenth-century feminist, suffragist, and abolitionist
who (w/ Lucretia Mott) organized the Seneca Falls Convention. She also
founded the National Women's Suffrage Org. (NAWSA) w/ Susan B.
Anthony
●● Lucretia Mott
Answer: Leading 1800s feminist, suffragist, abolitionist and co-
organizer of Seneca Falls Convention
●● Seneca Falls Convention
Answer: First major feminist meeting held in NY state in 1848.
Produced "Declaration of Sentiments" calling for women's rights
●● Dred Scott v. Sanford
Answer: 1857 SCOTUS decision ruling Missouri Compromise
unconstitutional and denied citizenship rights to enslaved blacks.
Heightens tensions between pro-slavery south and abolitionist north
before Civil War
●● Emancipation Proclamation
Answer: Pres. Lincoln issued this on Jan 1, 1863, in the third year of the
Civil War, "freeing" slaves in Confederacy (but not border states).
●● 13th Amendment
