Abolition was a social movement that grew in the first half of the nineteenth century, for both moral and economic reasons.
Women’s rights advocates focused on gaining equal legal rights for women, such as the right to control their own finances.
The Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 called for the right to vote for women.
A series of political compromises postponed but did not resolve the dispute over slavery.
The Civil War broke out because the Southern states feared that their right to own slaves was under assault.
The North embraced emancipation during the war.
Reconstruction attempted to give the freed enslaved people a new place in American society, with varying degrees of success.
After the Civil War, the Gilded Age was a period of economic growth.
Railroad expansion made it possible to travel across the country far more quickly and settle previously unsettled areas.

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