Transcendentalism
This writer authored Self-Reliance and argued that individuals should trust themselves over society.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
This religious group in New York practiced communal living and complex marriage.
Who were the Oneida Community?
This abolitionist newspaper, founded in 1831, demanded immediate emancipation.
What is The Liberator?
The movement that sought to stop alcohol consumption in America.
What is the Temperance Movement?
This movement gained momentum as women became more active in reform societies.
What is the Women’s Rights Movement?
The central belief of Transcendentalism that truth comes from this — not institutions.
What is individual intuition?
The Shakers were known for this requirement of all members.
What is celibacy?
The author of The Liberator and one of the leading radical abolitionists.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This reformer led major changes to the treatment of the mentally ill.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
She wrote Declaration of Sentiments and organized the Seneca Falls Convention.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
This Transcendentalist lived at Walden Pond to practice simple living in nature.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
Brook Farm attempted to mix intellectualism with manual labor and was inspired by this movement.
What is Transcendentalism?
This escaped slave became a leading abolitionist speaker and wrote a famous autobiography.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Horace Mann is most associated with reforming this institution.
What are public schools?
Women were especially active in abolitionism, temperance, and this third major reform.
What is educational reform?
Thoreau refused to pay taxes to protest slavery and the Mexican War, an act known as this.
What is civil disobedience?
Utopian societies were trying to create this — a perfect society separate from flaws of the market revolution.
What is social perfection?
Abolitionists petitioned Congress until Congress passed this rule to automatically block them.
What is the Gag Rule?
This term refers to the belief that people could improve society through moral persuasion and reform.
What is moral perfectionism?
This phrase described the 1800s gender belief that women’s place was the home.
What is the Cult of Domesticity?
Transcendentalists believed people were inherently this, unlike the Puritans' beliefs.
What is good or morally pure?
This reform-minded group believed in communal ownership and equality, and many were influenced by European socialism.
Who were the Fourierists?
This network of secret routes helped enslaved people escape to the North or Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Religious revivalism during the Second Great Awakening encouraged this belief — that individuals could determine their own salvation.
What is free will?
Two sisters who became famous female abolitionists and advocates for women's equality.
Who were the Grimké sisters?