Key Terms
free schools supported by taxes
Public Schools
organized attempts to improve conditions of life
Social Reform
reformers who wanted to abolish, or end, slavery
Abolitionists
the right of women to vote
Women's Suffrage
a movement that sought to explore the relationship between humans and nature through emotions rather than through reason
Transcendentalism
huge outdoor religious meeting
Revival
expansion of democracy encouraged reform
Age of Jackson
proposed a constitutional amendment to ban slavery in every new state joining the union
President John Quincy Adams
organized effort to improve political, legal, and economic status of women in American society
Women's Rights Movement
the unique importance of each individual
Individualism
total ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol
Prohibition
rising preacher in new generation that held the first of many religious revivals in 1826
Charles Finney
escaped slave who helped 300+ slaves escape and lead them to freedom
Harriet Tubman
“We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men and women are created equal….”
The Declaration of Sentiments
the idea that people should peacefully disobey unjust laws if their conscience demand it
Civil Disobedience
the idea that God decided the fate of a person’s soul even before birth
Predestination
Massachusetts school teacher, who took up the cause to help reform prisons
Dorothea Dix
Black Moses
Harriet Tubman
“We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal….”
The Declaration of Independence
Publisher of 1868's Little Woman and presented gentler view of New England life
Louisa May Alcott
an organized effort to end alcohol abuse and the problems created by it
The Temperance Movement
Took charge in education reform in Massachusetts
Horace Mann
Network of people - black and white, northerners and southerners - who secretly helped slaves to freedom
Underground Railroad
In 1848 The ___________________ was called to discuss social, civil, and religious rights for women
Seneca Falls Convention
Leading transcendentalist that asked Americans to question the value of material goods
Ralph Waldo Emerson