Movements
Key Figures
Publications
Organizations
Potpourri
100

This was the effort to end or limit the consumption of alcohol.

Temperance

100

This was the most famous African American member of the movement to end slavery.

Frederick Douglass

100

This magazine, written by William Lloyd Garrison, was the most famous publication of the movement to end slavery.

The Liberator

100

This group was formed to encourage and support the migration of free Blacks and emancipated slaves to Africa. (ACS)

The American Colonization Society

100

This religious revival during the mid-1800s sparked the reform movements of the time.

Second Great Awakening
200

This was one of the most broadly supported reform movements, whose goal was to end slavery.

Abolition

200

This women's rights reformer had a US coin created in her honor.

Susan B. Anthony

200

This was the document written at the most famous women's rights gathering of the 1800s.

The Declaration of Sentiments

200

This group was formed by those who suffered most because of the consumption of alcohol.  (WCTU)

Women's Christian Temperance Union

200

This new philosophy required adherents to go beyond themselves and the limits of their own mind.

Transcendentalism

300

The Prison Reform Movement was largely the effort of this person.

Dorothea Dix

300

This was the most famous leader of the Education reform movement.

Horace Mann

300

These were inexpensive weekly newspapers that helped spread information and give people across the country a common experience.

The Penny Press

300

This was the largest organization dedicated to ending the most serious problem facing the nation in the 1800s.  (AASS)

The American Anti-Slavery Society

300

The movement to end or limit the consumption of alcohol accomplished its ultimate goal with the passage of this Constitutional amendment.

The 18th Amendment

400

The primary goal of the Women's Rights Movement was to achieve this.

The right to vote

400

Name either of the two organizers of the most famous women's rights gathering of the 1800s.

Lucretia Mott or Elizabeth Cady Stanton

400

This novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe described the horrors of slavery to northerners.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

400

This utopian group formed communities from Kentucky to Maine, but became known mostly for their furniture and manner of praying.

The Shakers

400

This was the first woman to earn a medical degree.

Elizabeth Blackwell

500

This was the term applied to the effort to provide basic education to all children supported by taxpayers.

The Common School Movement
500

This person led the Education reform movement in the South.

Calvin Wiley

500

This was the text used to teach children to read and become good citizens.

McGufffey's Reader

500

This religious group faced persecution in many eastern states and decided to resettle in Utah, on the Great Salt Lake.

The Mormons

500

This social reformer and minister is best known for his effort to form a utopian community in Massachusetts called Brook Farm.

George Ripley

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