Unit 2 Vocab

2. A celebration in which an event is remembered
3. Granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to anyone born in the United States.
6. Fought for women's right to vote (suffrage). Gained attention by attempting to vote
9. was not a real railroad. Rather an organization of people called “conductors” who led the enslaved along different routes to free states. The hideouts and homes where the enslaved hid along the way were called stations or depots.
11. granted women the right to vote
12. leader in the abolition movement once enslaved herself. Used her stories and speeches to travel around the country and help people understand how immoral slavery was.
13. Officially abolished (ended) slavery in the United States.
14. The federal government of the United States, did not support enslavement during the Civil War.

1. President Abraham Lincoln declared that all enslaved Americans were free in the Southern states
3. granted voting rights to all men regardless of the color of their skin
4. A holiday which celebrates the end of enslavement in the United States
5. A seventy-two-year-long battle for woman's right to vote in the United States
7. an effort by 11 Southern States to leave the U.S. These states supported enslavement.
8. The act of abolishing slavery, to get rid of slavery. A person who fights for the act of abolishing slavery
10. leader of the abolition movement once enslaved himself. Became a prominent activist, author and public speaker.