Reform Movements

Define abolitionist

• Sought to bring an end to slavery.

• Someone in favor of women's rights.

• Wanted to bring an end to the production and consumption of alcohol.

• Sought to end the mistreatment of prison inmates.

What was an effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Southerners loved the book.

• It described the evils of slavery, and further divided the North & South.

• It helped to unite the Northern and Western states.

• It caused a slave revolt in the South.

Series of safe houses which helped slaves escape to the North.

• Freedom Trail

• The Hallelujah Trail

• The Underground Railroad

• The Peace Train

Escaped slave who published antislavery writings and gave speeches throughout the North.

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Nat Turner

• Frederick Douglass

Escaped slave who risked her life to help over 300 slaves escape to freedom.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Douglass

• Dorthea Dix

Quaker and abolitionist who published an antislavery newspaper called The Liberator.

• Frederick Douglass

• Dorthea Dix

• William Lloyd Garrison

• John Brown

She wrote a novel about the evils of slavery which angered both the North and South.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Douglas

• Dorthea Dix

Famous art school founded in New York, inspired by American landscapes.

• Hudson River School

• American Art Institute

• The New York Art Institute

• The New York School of Art

Renewal of religious faith in the 1790s and early 1800s, this movement helped to inspire many of the reform movements.

• The Great Revival

• The Faith Awakening

• The Second Great Awakening

• The Enlightenment

Reform movement which wanted to eliminate the consumption of alcohol.

• Temperance Movement

• Abstinence Movement

• Anti-alcohol Movement

• Alcohol Abstinence Association (AAA)