Movements I
What movement is mean to improve society's conditions?
Reform Movement
What was the goal of the temperance movement?
To stop alcohol abuse
What religious group helped most with the Underground Railroad?
The Quakers
Transcendentalists liked to write books about what?
Nature
What right did women NOT have at the end of this era?
The right to vote
What was the cost of education after the Education Reform?
Free! Taxes paid for schools
Who was a conductor on the Underground Railroad that led 300 slaves to freedom?
Harriet Tubman
Art that comes from the Hudson River School usually shows what?
Landscapes
How did women's rights help women?
More educational opportunities
What two types of disabled students were able to get an education because of the Educational Reform?
Deaf and blind
What was the Underground Railroad?
A series of safe houses which slaves to freedom
Transcendentalists believed in what two things?
Self-reliance and individualism
What was the name of the convention that said "all men AND WOMEN" are created equal?
Seneca Falls Convention
Why was the temperance movement led by woman and business owners?
They were most affected - men would waste the family's money on alcohol or go to work drunk
Who wanted to send free African-Americans back to Africa?
Who was the most famous transcendentalist artist who drew birds and mammals?
John James Audubon
Where did the ideas come from for all the different reform movements?
Declaration of Independence
Why might an Irish factory worker oppose abolition or not want the slaves to be freed?
They were afraid slaves might take their jobs.