People
John James Audubon
Birds of America
Campaign against alcohol abuse
Temperance Movement
Dorothea Dix
Mental institutions
Hospital and Prison Reform
A conductor of the Underground Railroad helped save many runaway slaves.
Was a formal slave herself
Harriet Tubman
Network of white and black abolitionists who secretly helped slaves escape to Freedom.
Thomas Cole
Founder of the Hudson River School
Organization to end slavery in the U.S
Abolitionist Movement
Pushed legislators to provide money for Education
Horace Mann
Runaway slave who published the Northstar newspaper
Fedrick Douglass
A religious movement that stressed free will instead of following God's plan for you.
Second Great Awakening
Author of THE LIBERATOR NEWSPAPER
William Loyd Garrison
Creation of schools for girls, the deaf, blind, disabled
public education
Education Reform
Meeting in New York
200 women and 40 men gather
Women read the Declaration of Sentiments
Seneca Falls
William Loyd Garrison
People's actions reflect their morals and they should want to improve
Second Great Awakening
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poet, lecturer, essayist that led the Transcendentalist movement
Hospital and Prison Reform
Treat the mentally ill like patients provide medication (mental institutions)
Batter conditions for prisoners
What was the Declaration of Sentiments
Women demand equality at work, school, church and the right to vote
African American evangelist, abolitionist, women’s rights activist, and author who was born into slavery before escaping to freedom in 1826. After gaining her freedom, she preached about abolitionism and equal rights.
Sojourner Truth
A philosophy that people were basically good, the human potential was limitless, and answers could be found in nature. Trying to create ideal societies.
Transcendentalism
Civil Disobedience
Did not pay poll tax to avoid the expansion of slavery
believed people were born with an inner sense of right and wrong (morals)
Henry David Thoreau
Define Social Reform
Actions to correct injustice in society.
Name 3 women involved in the women's rights movement
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B Anthony
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Refuse to obey a law that goes against your morals
Henry Devid Thoreau
Nelson Mandela
Cesar Chavez
Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil Disobedience