History Vocabulary

3. A middle-class reformer who helped change the prison system in the U.S.
5. Gave them the right to vote and equal property rights
6. A poorly build, overcrowded housing where many immigrants lived
7. Made common schools for all children, schools for african americans and the disables, and colleges for women
9. An african american reformer, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement.
10. Freedom from slavery
12. Social and economic level between the wealthy and the poor

1. An end to slavery
2. Reform that promoted the idea of having all children educated in a common place regardless of Social class or background
4. A philosophy shared by some new england writers that had the idea that people could rise above the material things in life
6. A social reform effort begun to encourage people to drink less alcohol
8. U.S. citizens who opposed immigration because they were suspicious of immigrants and feared losing jobs to them
9. Under the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819, spain gave this territory to the U.S. in trade for what today is Texas
11. A reforment that gave better treatment to criminals, orphans, and people with mental illnesses