Transcendentalist Thinkers
This movement believed that nature was the purest path to spiritual truth.
What is Transcendentalism?
This community, led by John Humphrey Noyes, believed in shared property and “complex marriage.”
What is the Oneida Community?
This abolitionist newspaper demanded immediate emancipation.
What is The Liberator?
This 1848 meeting launched the organized women’s rights movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
He is known as the “Father of Public Education.”
Who is Horace Mann?
He argued that people should follow their inner moral compass, not society’s expectations.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
This group practiced total gender equality and ecstatic dance but required celibacy.
Who were the Shakers?
This escaped enslaved person became one of the greatest abolitionist orators.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
She helped write the Declaration of Sentiments, declaring “all men AND women are created equal.”
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
She fought for humane treatment of the mentally ill.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This author’s experiment at Walden Pond became a symbol of simple, intentional living.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
This utopian attempt mixed farming with intellectual activity but collapsed after a fire.
What is Brook Farm?
A Congressional rule that automatically blocked anti-slavery petitions.
What is the Gag Rule?
Many women first gained political experience participating in this reform movement against alcohol.
What is Temperance?
This religious revival inspired many reform movements of the 1800s.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
Transcendentalists rejected this belief, claiming humans were naturally worthy.
What is the idea of innate human sinfulness?
Many utopian societies were responding to problems caused by this economic transformation.
What is the Market Revolution?
Harriet Tubman helped lead hundreds of enslaved people to freedom through this system.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This phrase described the idea that women should raise children and maintain the home.
What is the Cult of Domesticity?
This reform aimed to reduce crime and poverty by encouraging sobriety.
What is the Temperance Movement?
Thoreau’s essay defending peaceful law-breaking inspired Gandhi and MLK.
What is “Civil Disobedience”?
This group followed Charles Fourier’s ideas for reorganizing society into “phalanxes.”
Who were the Fourierists?
This abolitionist burned the Constitution, calling it “a covenant with death.”
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
These sisters became early champions for both abolition and women's rights.
Who are the Grimké sisters?
This belief held that individuals were responsible for improving their own morality through discipline and self-control.
What is moral self-improvement?