Education & Social Good
The primary motivation for the Common School Movement, which aimed to provide free public education for all children.
What is to ensure social stability and civic participation?
The overall goal of the reform movements in the US during the early to mid-1800s, including this movement.
What is promoting social change, such as abolition, women’s rights, and education?
The two key issues this movement challenged: traditional gender roles and expectations.
What is the women's rights movement?
This characteristic of Hudson River School paintings celebrated the American wilderness and natural beauty.
What is depiction of nature (or Celebration of the American wilderness)?
A person who would say, "I follow a philosophy that teaches people to trust their emotions and intuition."
Who is a transcendentalist?
This reform leader said, "Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer..."
Who is Horace Mann?
The economic dependence of the South on slavery made this the major obstacle to ending the practice.
What is the abolition of slavery?
This document, outlining the rights women should be entitled to, was produced at the Seneca Falls Convention.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
A philosophy that teaches people to trust their emotions and intuition, a quote most likely said by a person in this movement.
What is Transcendentalism (or a transcendentalist)?
The advocate for improving the treatment of the mentally ill who campaigned for the establishment of mental health institutions.
Who is Dorothea Lynde Dix?
This reform sought to improve the conditions for the mentally ill, leading to the establishment of state-funded mental institutions.
What is Dorothea Lynde Dix's movement (or the Asylum Reform Movement)
Frederick Douglass used this method to spread his message of freedom for all people.
What are newspapers (or writing/publishing)?
This was the immediate effect of the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848.
What is It created an organized campaign for women’s rights?
Communal ownership of property and rejection of traditional social hierarchies were common characteristics of this type of society.
What are Utopian societies?
This escaped slave and powerful orator spoke out against both slavery and women's rights.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
A term for communities like Brook Farm that rejected traditional society to create an ideal community based on shared principles.
What are Utopian societies?
This describes the connection between the Abolitionist Movement and the Women's Rights Movement.
What is Women became aware that their rights were limited as well (or women gained experience in working for social change)?
Women's participation in earlier social reform movements had this positive effect on the women's rights movement.
What is It gave women experience in working on behalf of social change?
This prominent thinker's name is closely associated with the Transcendentalist movement, along with Henry David Thoreau.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Along with Lucretia Mott, she was the primary organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
Reformers who challenged traditional views on crime advocated that crime is a result of social factors and can be corrected through this.
What is reform?
DOUBLE DAILY 💰. This was the only significant goal of the abolitionists that was NOT realized at the time of the movement's peak, and only after the Civil War was its foundation laid with the 14th Amendment.
What is equal rights for African Americans?
Of the major goals of the women's rights movement, this was NOT one of them in the 19th century.
What is The right to serve in the military?
This religious revival movement encouraged social activism and addressing issues like poverty and inequality.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This prominent Transcendentalist thinker's most famous essay, "Civil Disobedience," inspired figures like Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. to use non-violent protest.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?