Temperance
Protestant ministers and others concerned with effects of alcoholism founded this in 1826 to convince drinkers to abstain from alcohol.
What is the American Temperence Society?
Woman reformers who resented the disproportionate amount of control men had in society advocated for this
What are Women's Rights?
Education reformers wanted not only to promote literary or mathematical education, but also...
Moral Education
These new, reformed prisons took the place of old, rudimentary prisons.
What are penitentiaries?
Rather than taking a moral route, this group believed that antislavery actions needed to be taken in a more political sense.
What is the Liberty Party?
This group of recovering alcoholics claimed that alcoholism was a disease requiring practical treatments
Who were the Washingtonians?
At this convention, a group of women created the Decleration of Sentiments and detailed the grievances they faced in laws and workplaces.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
This man was the main advocate for the common school movement, including promoting a longer school year, compulsory attendance for students, etc.
Who was Horace Mann
The ideas that structure and discipline would bring about moral reforming were major parts of this movement.
What was the asylum movement?
The idea of transporting those freed from slavery to a purely African colony.
What is the American Colonization Society
Despite being overshadowed by the issue of slavery, this Union sparked a reignition in the temperance movement in the 1870s.
What was the Women's Christian Temperance Union?
The absence of men in households following the industrial revolution created an idealized view of woman as moral leaders in homes. This is known as...
What is the cult of domesticity?
Those who valued hard work, punctuality, and sobriety in an increasingly industrializing society.
Who were McGuffey Readers?
This penal experiment in New York used both discipline and moral teaching in attempt to aid the mentally ill prisoners there.
What was the Auburn System?
Created by William Lloyd Garrison and other abolitionists, this society's goal was to completely abolish slavery in the United States.
What is the American Antislavery Society?
Despite their strong opposition of the temperance movement, these groups of immigrants lacked power to interfere with the political processes of reforms.
Who were German and Irish immigrants?
These woman reformers began campaigning for women's rights after being forbidden to speak at an antislavery convention.
Who are Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
Many public schools reflected protestant ideas. Because of that, this group of people created their own private schools to educate their children according to their belief.
Who are Catholic people?
This schoolteacher, horrified by the treatment of mentally ill persons, published her findings on treatments for mental illness and advocated for reform.
Who was Dorothea Dix?
Written by Frederick Douglass, this journal was comprised of antislavery sentiment and ideas.
What is The North Star?
This state became the first to prohibit manufacturing and selling alcohol in 1851
What is Maine
In Letters on the Equality of Sexes, and the Conditions of Women, this sibling duo spoke out against gender discrimination
Sarah and Angelina Grimke
The religious enthusiasm sparked from the Second Great Awakening helped provide fuel to grow these private foundations.
What are private colleges? (Higher Education)
Doctors Thomas Gallaudet and Samuel Gridley Howe founded institutions to help those with these disabilities.
What are blindness and deafness?
A revolt lead by this person destroyed any amount of antislavery sentiment in the South due to fear of future revolts.
Who was Nat Turner?