The Age of Reform [Vocabulary]

An organized social campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages..

• Temperance Movement

• Seneca Falls Convention

• Second Great Awakening

• Declaration of Sentiments

Led by women like Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, this event gathered supporters of women’s rights in July 1848. This event in New York launched the movement for women’s right to vote.

• Temperance Movement

• Seneca Falls Convention

• Second Great Awakening

• Declaration of Sentiments

a formal statement of injustices suffered by women, written by the organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention.

• Temperance Movement

• Seneca Falls Convention

• Second Great Awakening

• Declaration of Sentiments

led by Ralph Waldo Emerson, this philosophy emphasized that people should transcend, or go beyond, logical thinking to reach true understanding, with the help of emotions and intuition.

• Second Great Awakening

• transcendentalism

• individualism

• Abolitionist

a revival of religious feeling and belief from the 1800s to the 1840s led by preachers like Charles G. Finney. The movememt urged Christians to be "filled with the Spirit of God," do good works...

• Second Great Awakening

• transcendentalism

• individualism

• Abolitionist

Former slave who became an abolitionist and women's rights activist.

• Horace Mann

• Frederick Douglass

• Sojourner Truth

• Dorothea Dix

A reformer who believed that the mentally ill needed treatment and care, not to be punished and put in jail.

• Horace Mann

• Frederick Douglass

• Sojourner Truth

• Dorothea Dix

Led a reform movement to make education available to more children. Known as "the father of American public schools."

• Horace Mann

• Frederick Douglass

• Sojourner Truth

• Dorothea Dix

This reformer escaped enslavement and became an important leader in the abolitionist movement. Is known for his autobiographies and famous speeches against slavery.

• Horace Mann

• Frederick Douglass

• Sojourner Truth

• Dorothea Dix

Belonging to a period before a war, especially the American Civil War.

• individualism

• transcendentalism

• Antebellum

• Abolitionist