Feminism
Abolition
Transcendentalism
Romanticism
Loose Ends
100
This document was fashioned after the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments
100
To work at ending slavery.
What is Abolition
100
A philosophical and social movement that developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism; it taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity.
What is transcendentalism
100
The first full-fledged literary movement that developed in the U.S. between 1820 to 1860.
What is American Romanticism
100
He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator
Who is William Lloyd Garrison
200
This meeting was held in New York in 1848 to address the plight of women in American society.
What is Seneca Falls Convention
200
A network of safe houses
What is the underground railroad.
200
His best known essays are "Self-Reliance", "The Over-Soul", "Circles", "The Poet" and "Experience".
What is Ralph Waldo Emerson
200
The rationalistic Unitarianism and Deism were so rational and so determined, the emotional excesses of evangelism to hold in this movement.
What is Great Awakening
200
She was an activist on behalf of the insane who, lobbied the Congress to create the first American mental asylums.
Who is Dorthea Dix
300
These two women were not allowed to speak or vote as delegates to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840. This single event motivated them to focus on women' rights.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
300
Born into slavery, she escaped and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved families and friends.
What is Harriet Tubman
300
He best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience"
What is Henry David Thoreau
300
Founder of the Latter Day Saint movement of Restorationist Christianity.
Who is Joseph Smith
300
He generally is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe
400
Because she was a woman, she was not allowed to speak at temperance rallies. This experience, and her acquaintance with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led her to join the women's rights movement in 1852.
Who is Susan B. Anthony
400
Escaping from slavery, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings.
What is Frederick Douglass
400
Because governments are typically more harmful than helpful, they therefore cannot be justified. Democracy is no cure for this, as majorities simply by virtue of being majorities do not also gain the virtues of wisdom and justice.This is shared in which book?
What is Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience)
400
American Presbyterian minister and leader in the Second Great Awakening in the United States; called The Father of Modern Revivalism.
Who is Charles Finney
400
No one did more than he to establish in the minds of the American people the conception that education should be universal, non-sectarian, free, and that its aims should be social efficiency, civic virtue, and character, rather than mere learning or the advancement of sectarian ends.
Who is Horace Mann
500
One of the major items The Declaration of Sentiment resolved to see through.
What is suffrage
500
Isabella Baumfree changed her name in 1843 after she became convinced that God has called her to leave the city and go into the countryside "testifying the hope that was in her."
What is Sojourner Truth
500
Individual authority, Nonconformity, Solitude and the community and Spirituality all are themes in what essay?
What is Self-Reliance
500
A sense a flowering of human possibilities, and a high regard for the individual was part of the Romantic movement and also known as this in regards to American literature.
What is America Renaissance
500
Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality. was written by this poet
Who is Emily Dickenson
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