The __________ was a religious movement beginning in the 1790’s in which people felt a renewed sense of spirituality which contributed to the reform spirit in America as people looked to improve society and help others.

• Second Great Awakening
• Protestant Reformation

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the Seneca Falls Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848 to draw attention to the problems __________ faced.

• women
• African Americans

The Hudson River School artists and Transcendentalists impacted developments in American art and literature by establishing an independent American identity.

• art and literature
• religion

Abolitionists were individuals who wanted to __________ in the United States.

• end slavery
• ban the use of alcohol

__________ was a social reformer in the 1840’s who focused her efforts on the mentally ill and criminals.

• Dorothea Dix
• Sarah Grimke

__________ were noted for supporting social reform movements, seeking to preserve nature, and encouraging people to look for ways to improve society, rather than being driven by material wealth.

• Transcendentalists
• Abolitionists

In one of his most-famous essays, Civil Disobedience (1849), __________ describes his decision no longer to pay taxes as a form of protest against the Mexican War and the institution of slavery. Thoreau was thrown in jail as a consequence.

• Henry David Thoreau
• William Lloyd Garrison

__________ published Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852 in which she described the horrors of slavery.

• Harriett Beecher Stowe
• Harriet Tubman

Horace Mann pushed for prison reform and encouraged legislators to provide more money for __________.

• education in order to make it available to more children.
• prisons in order to make conditions better.

What factor lead to Industrialism? 

• Revolutions in other countries
• No  government regulations on businesses.
• trading with England only.
• introduction of the Monroe Doctrine.