The Second Great Awakening
This movement inspired people to improve society through reform.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This woman worked to reform prisons and mental health institutions.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
This movement aimed to abolish slavery in the U.S.
What is the abolitionist movement?
The Seneca Falls Convention was held in this year.
What is 1848?
This term describes the belief that each person can reform themselves and society.
What is individualism?
Revivalists during this movement emphasized this principle to encourage change.
What is individual salvation?
He published The Liberator, a leading abolitionist newspaper.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This movement sought to ban alcohol in the U.S.
What is the temperance movement?
This document, presented at Seneca Falls, declared that "all men and women are created equal."
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
Organizations such as the American Colonization Society sought to do this with free African-Americans.
What is return them to Africa?
This preacher became a leading figure of the Second Great Awakening through emotional sermons.
She co-organized the Seneca Falls Convention and wrote the Declaration of Sentiments.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
Communities like Brook Farm attempted to create this type of perfect society.
What is a utopian community?
Name a co-organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention besides Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Who is Lucretia Mott?
Transcendentalist authors like Ralph Waldo Emerson promoted this idea of spiritual connection to nature.
What is transcendentalism?
This reform movement, focused on reducing alcohol consumption, was heavily influenced by the Second Great Awakening.
What is the temperance movement?
This escaped slave became a leading abolitionist and wrote the autobiography Narrative of the Life of (his name).
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This reform movement focused on better treatment for the mentally ill and prisoners.
What is prison and asylum reform?
This famous speech by Sojourner Truth connected women's rights and abolitionism.
What is "Ain't I a Woman?"
This sister duo spoke publicly about slavery and women's rights, inspiring others to join reform efforts.
Who are the Grimké sisters?
The Second Great Awakening inspired a belief in this, the idea that humans could achieve moral perfection.
What is human perfectibility?
This education reformer advocated for free, public schools.
Who is Horace Mann?
This movement sought to improve access to education for all children.
What is the education reform movement?
The women's rights movement grew out of this other reform movement.
What is the abolitionist movement?
Name one effect of the temperance movement in the early 19th century.
What is a decrease in alcohol consumption?