Famous People
Socialist Robert Owen
Owen tried to found a society that rejected God, marriage, and private property. His society ran out of food.
Shakers
A religious group that did not believe in procreation.
Horace Mann
A leading spokesman for a publicly-funded educational system that taught academic, physical, and moral values that promote democracy.
Empire of Liberty
Thomas Jefferson believed America was going to be an empire of liberty, with small farmers moving west for 1,000 years.
McGuffey's Readers
Schoolbooks that taught students about Christian Morality.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
An important American feminist.
Amish
A Christian group who founded their community on Christian principles and the rejection of modern conveniences, like electricity.
Apprentice
A boy who learned a trade by living in the household and working for a master tradesman for a number of years.
Manifest Destiny
Many European-Americans believed God gave them the right to conquer and inhabit the west so that America would be complete.
Harvard University
America's oldest university used to train ministers.
Susan B. Anthony
An important feminist.
Utopia
The idea of a group that has a perfect society.
Abolitionism
The movement against slavery.
Industrial Revolution
A social change in how people made a living. Americans moved from being farmers to working in factories and living in cities.
Classical Education
When Americans focused on a style of learning that consisted of learning languages, reading books, searching for truth, and engaging in discussion.
Frederick Douglass
Douglass was a runaway slave who became a leader of the abolitionist movement.
Church of Jesus Christ Latter-Day Saints
Know as Mormons, they posied the idea that Jesus had visited the earth thousands of years ago.
Feminism
A movement toward voting and equal rights for women.
Second Great Awakening
Americans became closer to Jesus, creating new forms of christianity.
1852
When Massachusetts adapted a publicly-funded education system.
Harriet Tubman
An escaped slave who helped over 70 slaves escape to freedom.
Standard of Living
The economic level most citizens live in.
1825-1829
The Presidency of John Quincy Adams.
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
A law that encouraged religion and morality to be taught as part of school curriculum.
The Underground Railroad
A system of routes and safe homes that slaves would escape to freedom from.