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Improving Society (414)
The Fight Against Slavery (422)
A Call for Women's Rights (427)
American Literature and Arts (431)
Important People (414-435)
100
Organized attmepts to improve conditions of life.
What is social reform?
100
The first state to ban slavery in its state constitution.
What is Ohio?
100
Members of a religion that allowed women to take public roles that other religions prohibited.
Who are Quakers?
100
The two major works of Washington Irving.
What are "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle?"
100
A Massachusetts school teacher who took up the cause of prison reform.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
200
The idea that God decided the fate of a person's soul, even before birth.
What is predestination?
200
A colony founded in 1822, intended for freed slaves.
What is Liberia?
200
A convention to "discuss the social, civil, and religious rights of women."
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
200
The main character in novels such as "The Deerslayer" and "The Last of the Mohicans."
Who is Bumppo?
200
A Quaker who published the "Liberator" and was later dragged through the streets of Boston by his neck.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
300
A huge outdoor religious meeting.
What is a revival?
300
Reformers who wanted to end slavery.
Who are abolitionists?
300
The right of women to vote.
What is women's suffrage?
300
A movement that sought to explore the relationship between humans and nature through emotions rather than through reason.
What is transcendentalism?
300
Close allies who founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869.
Who are Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony?
400
An organized effort to end alcohol abuse and the problems created by it.
What is the temperance movement?
400
System used to help people escape slavery.
What is the Underground Railroad?
400
An organized effort to improve the political, legal, and economic status of women in American Society?
What is the women's rights movement?
400
The unique importance of each individual.
What is individualism?
400
A leading transcendentalist who asked Americans to question the value of material goods.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
500
A total ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol.
What is prohibition?
500
The Congressional rule that blocked discussion of antislavery petitions.
What is the "gag rule?"
500
The first college for women in the United States.
What is Mount Holyoke Female Seminary?
500
The idea that people should peacfully disobey unjust laws if their consciences demand it.
What is civil disobedience?
500
The author responsible for the classic novel about guilt and deception, "The Scarlet Letter."
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?