This is a term that describes the agreement between rulers and the ruled in which the rulers provide security and the ruled sacrifice some of their liberty.
What is a social contract?
100
Former slave who became an aboitionist and women's rights activist.
Who is Soujourner Truth?
100
Movement to ban the drinking of alcohol
What is the temperance movement?
100
The goal of this was to perserve the balance between free and slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
200
She was a prison reformer.
Who is Dorthea Dix?
200
This was a religious movement that swept across the United States after 1800.
What is The Second Great Awakening?
200
Author of Walden, transcendentalist.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
200
Philosophy that emphasized the truth to be found in nature and intuition.
What is transcendentalism?
200
The purpose of this was to unify the diverse parts of the nation.
What is Henry Clay's American system?
300
He was an education reformer.
Who is Horace Mann?
300
This is a form of protest that calls upon people to disobey unjust laws.
What is civil protest?
300
leading transcendental philosopher
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
300
The form of protest that calls on people to disobey unjust laws.
What is civil disobedience?
400
This movement recognized the destructive effects of frunkenness on family life.
What is the temerance movement?
400
This movement emphasized living a simple life and celebrating the truth found in nature and in personal emotion and imagination.
What is transcendentalism?
400
Escaped slave who became a noted abolitionist leader.
Who is Frederick Douglas?
400
Convention held in 1848 to argue for women's rights.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
400
The founding fathers did not trust the common people to govern wisely so they favored this instead of a democracy.
What is a republic?
500
Fredrick Douglas favored _____________ action to end slavery.
What is political action?
500
What reformer said, " ...if we do not enrich their minds with knowledge, then our republic must go down to destruction."
Who is Horace Mann?
500
This was similar to Jacksonian democracy because it was democratic and emphasized the individual's responsibility.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
500
Social customs that restricted women to caring for the house.
What is cult of domesticity?
500
According to John Loche, what are man's natural rights?