Anti-Slavery
A slave who escaped to the North and became the most prominent of the black abolitionists, a gifted orator, writer, and editor.
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
Group founded in 1830 with headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, religious group that emphasized moderation, saving, hard work, and risk-taking; moved from IL to Utah
What are Mormons?
American transcendentalist who was against slavery and stressed self-reliance, optimism, self-improvement, self-confidence, and freedom.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
A philosophy in which each person has direct communication with God and nature
What is transcendentalism?
key leader of woman suffrage movement, social reformer who campaigned for women's rights
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
The most famous "conductor" on the underground railroad who made nineteen journeys into the south and saved more than 300 slaves, earning the title "Moses"
Who is Harriet Tubman?
a new religious movement founded by Ann Lee Stanley, name was based on their ecstatic dances that were a part of their worship.
What are Shakers?
English-born American artist. He is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century.
Who is Thomas Cole?
A series of religious revivals starting in 1801, the revivals attracted women, Blacks, and Native Americans. It also had an effect on moral movements such as prison reform, the temperance movement, and moral reasoning against slavery.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. She wrote the "Declaration of Sentiments" at the Women's Rights Convention of 1842.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
Anti-slavery newspaper that triggered a thirty-year war of words
What is the Liberator?
Religious leader who believed that an angel gave him a golden plate, in which he translated into a book that was the foundation for Mormonism
Who is Joseph Smith?
an American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century. He was best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle",
Who is Washington Irving?
19th century artistic movement that appealed to emotion rather than reason
What is Romanticism?
Quaker activist in both the abolitionist and women's movements who helped organize the Seneca Falls convention
Who is Lucretia Mott?
Prominent abolitionist who's paper caused unpopular views for anti-abolitionist
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
Utopian Society of socio-religious perfectionists who lived in New York. They practiced polygamy, communal property and communal raising of children.
What is the oneida community?
Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education, he was a prominent proponent of public school reform, and set the standard for public schools throughout the nation.
Who is Horace Mann?
An organized effort to encourage moderation in the consumption of intoxicating liquors or press for complete abstinence.
What is temperance?
The American women's rights movement began with a meeting of reformers and produced a historic document, the 'Declaration of Sentiments,' which demanded equal social status and legal rights for women, including the right to vote.
What is the Seneca falls convention?
These sister's came from South Carolina to the north to write and lecture vigorously on issues such as abolition and prison reform
Who are the Grimke Sister
Who is Joseph Henry Noyes?
a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century who wrote numerous sea-stories and historical novels known as the the "Leather stocking Tales"
Who is James Fenimore Cooper
A transcendentalist Utopian experiment, put into practice from 1841-1847
What is the Brook Farm?
Republican suffragist -believed that women had to wait for the vote until after black rights were settled -organized American Women Suffrage Association.
Who is Lucy Stone?