Section 1: Religion Sparks Reform
Section 2: Slavery and Abolition
Section 3: Women and Reform
Section 4: The Changing Workplace
Potpourri
100
A religious gathering designed to reawaken faith through impassioned preaching
What is a revival?
100
The freeing of slaves
What is emancipation?
100
Prevailing customs demanded that women restrict their activities after marriage to the home and family. Housework and children considered the only proper activities for married women
What is the Cult of Domesticity?
100
A young worker learning a craft
What is an apprentice?
100
The refusal to obey those laws which are seen as unjust in an effort to bring about a change in governmental policy.
What is Civil Disobedience?
200
A 19th-century religious movement in which individual responsibility for seeking salvation was emphasized, along with the need for personal and social improvement.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
200
1835 law passed by Southern congress which made it illegal to talk of abolition or anti-slavery arguments in Congress.
What is gag rule?
200
The effort to prevent the drinking of alcohol.
What is the Temperance Movement?
200
A system of production in which manufacturers provide the materials for goods to be produced at home.
What is the Cottage Industry?
200
Belonging to the period before the Civil War
What is antebellum?
300
The most famous preacher of the era, inspired emotional religious faith, using a speaking style that was as much high drama as prayer or sermon.
Who is Charles G. Finney?
300
Prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
300
A women's rights convention that was held in New York in 1848.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
300
Which group commonly worked as strikebreakers for low wages? (I want the specific group-not a general term)
Who are Irish Immigrants?
300
American transcendentalist who was against slavery and stressed self-reliance, optimism, self-improvement, self-confidence, and freedom. He was a prime example of a transcendentalist and helped further the movement.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
400
Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education, he was a prominent proponent of public school reform, and set the standard for public schools throughout the nation. Also established teacher training programs and instituted curriculum reforms.
Who is Horace Mann?
400
One of the most prominent african american figures in the abolitionist movement. Escaped from slavery in Maryland. Went on to publish his own newspaper, The North Star, and hoped that abolition could be achieved through political action.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
400
This person, along with Lucretia Mott, organized the first women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York. Modeled the "Declaration of Sentiments" which declared "all men and women are created equal" after the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
400
A skilled worker employed by a master craftsman
What is a journeyman?
400
American transcendentalist who was against a government that supported slavery. He wrote down his beliefs in Walden. He started the movement of civil-disobedience when he refused to pay the toll-tax to support him Mexican War.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
500
Rather than appealing to emotions, emphasized reason and appeals to conscience as the paths to perfection.
What is Unitarianism?
500
A free African American author who urged blacks to take their freedom by force. Aligned himself with William Lloyd Garrison.
Who is David Walker?
500
Born Isabella Baumfree, this former slave travelled the country preaching and teaching about slavery. She also argued for abolition and women’s rights.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
500
An 1824, Massachusetts Supreme Court case that declared that unions were lawful organizations and that the strike was a lawful weapon
What is Commonwealth v Hunt?
500
After Nat Turner's revolt, several Southern states passed legislations that tightened control over slaves. Examples of this include Alabama passing a law that forbade free blacks from preaching the gospel unless “respectable” slave owners were present and NC passing a law that prevented free blacks from being able to vote.
What is the slave codes?
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