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Section 1: Religion Sparks Reform
Section 2: Slavery and Abolition
Section 3: Women and Reform
Section 4: The Changing Workplace
Potpourri
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A religious gathering designed to reawaken faith through impassioned preaching
What is a revival?
100
The freeing of slaves
What is emancipation?
100

Housework and children considered the only proper activities for married women

What is the Cult of Domesticity?

100
A young worker learning a craft
What is an apprentice?
100
The refusal to obey those laws which are seen as unjust in an effort to bring about a change in governmental policy.
What is Civil Disobedience?
200
A 19th-century religious movement in which individual responsibility for seeking salvation was emphasized, along with the need for personal and social improvement.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
200

1835 law passed by Southern congress which made it illegal to talk of abolition or anti-slavery arguments in Congress.

What is gag rule?

200
The effort to prevent the drinking of alcohol.
What is the Temperance Movement?
200
A system of production in which manufacturers provide the materials for goods to be produced at home.
What is the Cottage Industry?
200

Belonging to the period before the Civil War or the southern part of the US

What is antebellum?

300
The most famous preacher of the era, inspired emotional religious faith, using a speaking style that was as much high drama as prayer or sermon.
Who is Charles G. Finney?
300

Prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer best known as the editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator

Who is William Lloyd Garrison?

300
A women's rights convention that was held in New York in 1848.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
300

To peacefully refuse to obey the law

What is Civil Disobedience

300
American transcendentalist who was against slavery and stressed self-reliance, optimism, self-improvement, self-confidence, and freedom. He was a prime example of a transcendentalist and helped further the movement.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
400

This New England writer was a Transcendentalist

Ralph Waldo Emerson

400

One of the most prominent African American figures in the abolitionist movement. Escaped from slavery in Maryland. Went on to publish his own newspaper, The North Star

Who is Frederick Douglass?

400

This person, along with Lucretia Mott, organized the first women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York. 

Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?

400
A skilled worker employed by a master craftsman
What is a journeyman?
400
American transcendentalist who was against a government that supported slavery. He wrote down his beliefs in Walden. He started the movement of civil-disobedience when he refused to pay the toll-tax to support him Mexican War.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
500

This transcendentalist believed in self-reliance

Who is Henry David Thoreau

500
A free African American author who urged blacks to take their freedom by force. Aligned himself with William Lloyd Garrison.
Who is David Walker?
500

Born Isabella Baumfree, this former slave travelled the country preaching and teaching about slavery. She also argued for abolition and women’s rights.

Who is Sojourner Truth?

500

This is a perfect place.

What is Utopian communities

500

The number of white people who died during Nat Turner's rebellion.

What is 60