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His common-sense sermons emphasized individual's power to reform themselves and society.
Who is Charles Grandison Finney?
100
This began as a response to social problems plaguing the United States.
What is reform movements?
100
The geography of the ______________________ because they lived on isolated farms separated by poor roads.
What is south discouraged the building of schools?
100
These were small societies dedicated to perfection in social and political conditions.
What are Utopian Communities?
100
This is a group who supported gradual approaches of emancipation.
What are Quakers?
200
This man set out to evangelize the West teaching that good people would make a good country.
Who is Lyman Beecher?
200
Principles from this movement stirred reform movements of the 1830s and 1840s.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
200
This was taught in schools in the 1830s.
What is republican virtues?
200
Many states in the south made this illegal for slaves in the 1800s.
What is learning to read?
200
Some abolitionists favored sending free blacks and emancipated slaves to this place in the early 1800s.
What is a colony in Africa?
300
He was a leader of the transcendentalism and believed that people could rise above the material world and become conscious of the spirit that is in all of nature. He urged Americans to reform society.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
300
This is a group centered in Concord, Mass. that founded a philosophical movement. Their purpose is to teach that the process of spiritual discovery and insight would lead a person to truths more profound than he/she could reach through reason. They declared that humans are naturally good.
Who are transcendentalists?
300
Taxpayers with no children, taxpayers who children went to private schools, parents who relied on their children's labor, parents who did not trust the government to educate their children, are all types of this.
What is opposition against public education?
300
These were the earliest known anti-slavery activists.
What is Mennonites in 1688?
300
Many free blacks were offended because they considered themselves to be _________________.
What is as American as any white person?
400
He wrote Walden and Civil Disobedience. In 1846 he refused to pay his taxes because he disagreed with the war with Mexico and was jailed. He was an anti-slavery activist.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
400
This is an organized campaign to eliminate alcohol consumption.
What is the Temperance Movement?
400
This region was more common to have schools.
What is the north, urban areas?
400
This type of abolition was favored by anti-slavery reformers.
What is a gradual approach of emancipation?
400
This was not a railroad, but a network of escape routes that provided protection and transportation for slaves fleeing north to freedom.
What is the underground railroad?
500
He was the First Massachusetts secretary of the Board of Education. He supported the raising of taxes to provide free public education. He began a system in which schools were divided into grade levels and established consistent curriculum and teacher training.
Who is Horace Mann?
500
As a ___________________, people urged to take pledges of abstinence from alcohol.
What is result from the formation of temperance groups?
500
This desperately needed reform in the 1840s.
What are prisons?
500
This type of abolition was favored by abolitionists.
What is wanting to stop it immediately?
500
Women were still expected to remain here during this time.
What is at home?