Socio-Cultural Movements
What movement emphasized emotion, imagination, and nature
Romanticism
Who advocated for better public education?
Horace Mann
What movement aimed to reduce alcohol consumption?
Temperance Movement
What invention made cotton processing faster?
Cotton gin
What artistic movement celebrated the beauty of nature?
Romanticism
What religious movement encouraged spiritual revival and moral improvement
Transcendentalism
Who wrote Walden about simple living and nature?
Henry David Thoreau
What 1848 convention advocated for women's rights?
Seneca Falls Convention
What invention allowed messages to travel quickly over long distances?
Telegraph
Who founded the Hudson River School of painting?
Thomas Cole
What religious gathering in Kentucky in 1801 helped spread the Second Great Awakening?
Cane Ridge Revival
Who published The Liberator to fight slavery?
William Lloyd Garrison
What document demanded equal rights for women and was modeled after the Declaration of Independence?
Declaration of Sentiments
What early photographic process was introduced in 1839?
Daguerreotype
Who wrote Nature in 1836?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What 1830 revival led by Charles Grandison Finney encouraged religious conversion and social reform?
Rochester Revival
Which two women organized the Seneca Falls Convention?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
What economic transformation increased inequality and inspired reform movements?
Market Revolution
What technology helped abolitionists spread antislavery newspapers and pamphlets?
Printing Press
How did transcendentalists view nature?
As a source of spiritual truth, independence, and self-reliance.
What movement emphasized self-reliance and independent thinking?
Transcendentalism
Which formerly enslaved abolitionist became a famous speaker and writer advocating equal rights?
Frederick Douglass
What legal principle limited married women's property rights and legal independence?
Coverture
How did the Market Revolution encourage reform movements?
It increased economic inequality and changed working conditions, inspiring demands for reform.
What contradiction existed between westward expansion and American ideals of freedom?
Expansion created opportunities for settlers while displacing Native Americans and expanding slavery.