Abolitionism
Formerly enslaved himself, he became one of America's most important abolitionist speakers and published a journal called The North Star.
Frederick Douglass
A secular experiment in communal living, this place in Indiana was the work of Robert Owen, who believed a socialist community could be the answer to the inequality brought by the Industrial Revolution.
New Harmony
Edgar Allen Poe
A religion that originated in the early 1800s whose members believed in Millennialism, or the second coming of Jesus.
Seventh-Day Adventists
Women were among the advocates for _______________, meaning abstaining from drinking alcohol.
Temperance
The region of the United States that was slower to embrace public education and humanitarian reforms.
The South
After his 1831 rebellion in which 55 whites were killed in Virginia, any antislavery sentiment in the south was put to an end.
Nat Turner
A place in West Roxbury, MA where Unitarian preacher George Ripley set up a utopian experiment in communal living.
Brook Farm
A figure in the Romantic genre of literature, this MA writer wrote the Scarlet Letter and the House of Seven Gables.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Also known as camp meetings, these were outdoor religious events that attracted many.
Revivals
The idea that a woman's primary responsibility and fulfillment should come from managing the household and caring for her family.
Cult of Domesticity
The two groups Thomas Gallaudet and Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe opened up special institutions for.
The deaf and blind
Abolitionist political party
Liberty Party
A feminist, associate of the Transcendental authors, and writer of "Woman in the Nineteenth Century," she spent time at Brook Farm.
Margaret Fuller
A literary and philosophical movement that emerged in New England and emphasized nature, artistic expression and individualism.
Transcendentalism
A religious movement during the late 18th to early 19th century in the United States that saw many more people embrace Protestant Christianity and encouraged social reform movements.
Second Great Awakening
She authored “The Declaration of Sentiments,” which expanded on the Declaration of Independence by adding the word “woman” or “women” throughout.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
He was the leading advocate in the common (public) schools movement and Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education.
Horace Mann
Massachusetts radical abolitionist and publisher of The Liberator.
William Lloyd Garrison
A group who lived communally but forbade marriage and any physical relations among men and women.
Shakers
He wrote Walden and Civil Disobedience, which encouraged nonviolent protest.
He was the founder of the Church of Latter-Day Saints who was murdered by a mob in Illinois.
Joseph Smith
She was a critic of the horrific conditions of prisons and asylums for the mentally ill and lobbied politicians to take action.
Dorothea Dix
Named after a Pennsylvania teacher, these textbooks taught reading and morality.
McGuffey Readers
A group who organized a settlement of African Americans in Liberia.
American Colonization Society
A group dedicated to perfect social and economic equality whose members shared everything (including spouses). Critics attacked them for their sinful "free love" but they're still known for their silverware.
Oneida Community
The Father of Transcendentalism, he wrote Self-Reliance and Concord Hymn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He was a Presbyterian minister who led revivals in upstate NY and believed people could be saved through faith and hard work.
Charles Grandison Finney
A women's rights convention met here in 1848 to voice support for suffrage and legal and property rights.
Seneca Falls
A religious group who opened up private schools because they believed public schools reflected Protestant beliefs.
Catholics