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Began as a response to social problems plaguing the United States?
What is Reform Movements
100
Why is Frederick Douglass significant?
Antislavery newspaper called north star and was a freed slave.
100
Who were the earliest known anti-slavery activists?
Mennonites
100
What was desperately in need of reform in the 1840s
prisons
100
What were Utopian Communities
Small societies dedicated to perfection in social and political conditions
200
Principles from what movement stirred the reform movements of the 1830s and 1840s
What is democratic principles
200
Where did some abolitionists favor sending free blacks and emancipated slaves to in the early 1800s?
to colony in Africa, Liberia
200
Who is Horace Mann
1st Massachusetts secretary of the Board of Education
200
In what region were schools more common
North
200
What type of abolition did anti-slavery reformers favor?
gradual approach
300
Who is Charles Grandison Finney
Central figure in the revivalist movement and common-sense sermons emphasized individuals' power to reform themselves and society
300
Many states in the South made what illegal for slaves in the 1800s
To reach slaves to read
300
Who were Transcendentalists
a group of philosophers and writers who rejected traditional religion.
300
What type of abolition did abolitionists favor?
ended immediately
400
Why is Lyman Beecher significant?
A popular preacher from Boston, set out to evangelize the West teaching that good people would make a good country
400
What was taught in schools in the 1830s
self-discipline, good citizenship, thrift, obedience, honest, and temperance
400
What was the Transcendentalists purpose
taught that the process of spiritual discovery and insight would lead a person to truths more profound than he or she could reach through reason
400
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leader of transcendentalist movement
400
Why is William Lloyd Garrison significant?
Founded the American Anti-Slavery Society
500
Who are Transcendentalists?
A group of philosophers and writers who rejected traditional religion
500
Who are Quakers?
Religious group
500
What type of opposition were their against public education
Taxpayers with no children, taxpayers whose children went to private schools, parents who relied on their children for labor
500
Who is Dorothea Dix
A major reformer of prisons and convicted to improve the prisons conditions and create separate institutions for mentally ill
500
Who was Sojourner Truth?
freed slave that became a famous abolitionist
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