Reformers in Action
This preacher believed individuals could choose to reject sin and helped lead revivals in New York's Burned-over District.
Who was Charles Grandison Finney?
Reformers believed _____________ contributed to poverty, domestic violence, and crime.
What is alcohol?
At this 1848 gathering, women demanded greater legal, political, and economic equality.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
What earlier intellectual movement emphasized reason and science, leading some Americans to seek a stronger connection to religion?
What was the Enlightenment?
During the First Great Awakening people believed that God had already determined who would be saved. This is called
What is predestination?
This abolitionist used his newspaper, The Liberator, to demand the immediate end of slavery.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
Abolitionists argued slavery contradicted these principles of the Declaration of Independence.
What is liberty/equality?
Ideal societies based on shared beliefs.
What is Utopian communities?
What major change in American society encouraged people to believe they could make their own choices and shape their futures?
What is the growth of democracy?
Charles Grandison Finney believed that Christians should do more than attend church. What did he encourage them to do?
What is work to improve society?
This formerly enslaved man used his autobiography and public speeches to expose the cruelty of slavery.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
What organization, founded in 1826, encouraged Americans to reduce or stop drinking alcohol?
What was the American Temperance Society?
This was one of several voluntary reform organizations.
What were The American Temperance Society or American Anti-Slavery Society
What economic transformation caused Americans to experience changes in transportation, industry, and employment?
What was the Market Revolution?
What type of religious gatherings allowed frontier families to hear traveling preachers and participate in worship?
What are camp meetings or revivals?
This reformer believed education could strengthen democracy by preparing children to become informed citizens.
Who was Horace Mann?
What was the main goal of the American Anti-Slavery Society, founded in 1833?
What is the immediate abolition of slavery?
This provided an independent religious institution and leadership for African Americans.
What was the African Methodist Episcopal Church?
As Americans began moving westward, improvements in __________ and _____________ helped religious revivals spread?
What was transportation and communication?
What religious leader claimed to receive revelations and founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1830?
Who was Joseph Smith?
Championed for mental health/prison reform
Who was Dorothea Dix?
How did Frederick Douglass use his personal experiences to strengthen the abolitionist movement?
What is, he exposed the cruelty/injustice of slavery?
This religious group challenged traditional expectations of American society by practicing communal living and equality between the sexes.
Who were the Shakers?
A historian argues the Second Great Awakening was caused by more than just religious beliefs. Name me ONE of the two major developments that could support this argument.
What are the Market Revolution and expanding democratic ideals?
What major political right did women demand but did not receive in 1848?
What is the right to vote/suffrage?