Reform Movements

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

• Frederick Douglass

• Dorthea Dix

• William Lloyd Garrison

• John Brown

Reform movement which wanted to eliminate the consumption of alcohol.

• Temperance Movement

• Abstinence Movement

• Anti-alcohol Movement

• Alcohol Abstinence Association (AAA)

What contribution did Horace Mann make to American society?

• Promoted and helped create the first public schools in America

• Leader of the Temperance movement

• Helped organize the first labor unions

• Prison Reform

What was Dorthea Dix role in the Reform Movement?

• She led the Temperance Movement

• She was the leader of the mill workers movement

• Pleaded for improved care for the mentally ill, 32 hospitals were built because of her efforts.

• Leader in education reform

Title of the women's declaration written at the convention in Seneca Falls, NY that declared.. "all men and women are created equal."

• The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions

• The Women's Declaration of Independence

• The Rights of Women

• We Hold These Truths

The _________ was a political organization founded by people who opposed immigrants and Catholics.

• Know-Nothing Party

• Democratic- Republicans

• Federalists

• Whigs

He was a transcendentalist and was from New England.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Herman Melville
• Nathaniel Hawthorne

A philosophical and literal movement emphasizing a simple life and truth found in yourself and nature.

• Socialism
• Libertarianism
• Communism
• Transcendentalism

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.

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.