Pre-Civil War Reforms and Tensions

I. Pre-Civil War Reforms & Conflicts A. Reform Movements

1. Temperance Movement Social reform aimed at reducing or banning alcohol consumption.

Led mostly by women and religious groups. Goal: Reduce domestic violence, workplace accidents,

and poverty associated with alcohol. 2. Frederick Douglass Former enslaved

man who became a leading abolitionist. Wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.

Worked with abolitionists like Garrison; pushed for Black rights, including suffrage. B.

Growing Sectional Tensions (1850s) 1. Compromise of 1850 California admitted

as free state.