Reforms Vocab.

To get rid of slavery

• Emancipation

• Seneca Falls Convention

• Abolition

• Reform

An organization that worked to help slaves escape the southern states to the north.

• Seneca Falls Convention

• Hudson River School

• Underground Railroad

• 2nd Great Awakening

To fix a problem

• Reform

• Hudson River School

• Temperance

• Emancipation

First Convention (meeting) that dealt with Women’s Rights.

• Hudson River School

• Underground Railroad

• Seneca Falls Convention

• 2nd Great Awakening

Led by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. The idea was that modern life was not the right way and instead people should return to nature and live in communal living. Abolitionists and anti-government.

• Hudson River School

• Transcendentalism

• Temperance

• Seneca Falls Convention

The job of keeping a home and family (viewed as a woman’s only job)

• Domesticity

• Reform

• Seneca Falls Convention

• Abolition

To not drink alcohol

• Abolition

• Temperance

• Domesticity

• Emancipation

A religious movement that brought people back to Church

• Underground Railroad

• Seneca Falls Convention

• Hudson River School

• 2nd Great Awakening

To be set free

• Temperance

• Domesticity

• Transcendentalism

• Emancipation

An art school that developed many famous artists usually focusing on Nature as their subject

• Seneca Falls Convention

• Reform

• Temperance

• Hudson River School