The Great Escape
This term refers to the movement to end slavery immediately.
What is Abolition?
This is the right that women were primarily fighting for during the 1800s.
What is suffrage?
This reformer is known as the "Father of Public Education" because he wanted school to be free for all.
Who is Horace Mann?
The Temperance movement believed this substance was the "root of all evil" in society.
What is alcohol?
This was the massive religious movement in the early 1800s that inspired people to "do good" and reform society.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This famous "conductor" led over 300 people to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman??
This 1848 meeting in New York is considered the official start of the women's rights movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This woman traveled the country to improve conditions for the mentally ill and those in prison.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This was the primary reason women led the Temperance movement—to stop husbands from spending money and hurting their...
What are families (or homes)?
He wrote the famous essay Civil Disobedience and believed in living simply in nature.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
This former enslaved man became a famous speaker and published the newspaper The North Star.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
She was a lead organizer of Seneca Falls and wrote the "Declaration of Sentiments."
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
Before the 1800s, most schools were private or run by churches; reformers pushed for these types of schools that were funded by taxes and open to everyone.
What are Common Schools (or Public Schools)?
This word means the legal banning of the manufacture and sale of alcohol.
What is Prohibition?
This philosophy taught that people could "transcend" or go beyond the material world by trusting their inner light.
What is Transcendentalism?
This 1850 law required Northerners to help capture runaway enslaved people, sparking massive outrage.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
She was arrested in 1872 for "illegally" voting in the presidential election to protest for women's rights.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
In the early 1800s, this group of people was often excluded from public schools in the North, leading to the creation of separate (and often underfunded) schools.
Who are African Americans?
She was a famous Temperance radical known for walking into saloons and smashing bottles with a hatchet.
Who is Carry Nation?
This is the term for peacefully refusing to obey laws you believe are unjust, a tactic used by Thoreau.
What is Civil Disobedience?
He was the white abolitionist who published The Liberator and called for the immediate end of slavery.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
Before women could vote, they had very few of these—a term meaning the legal right to own land or keep the money they earned.
What are property rights?
These were the small, local schools common before the reform movement, where all ages were taught in one room.
What are One-Room Schoolhouses?
This state was the first to pass a law banning alcohol in 1851, known as "The [State Name] Law."
What is Maine?
This was the location (a pond in Massachusetts) where Thoreau lived in a small cabin for two years to find himself.
What is Walden Pond?