WorksheetsAge of Reform - Parts 1-2
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
The leader in public school reform, he established teacher training programs and curriculum (school subjects) reform
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Horace Mann
The call to outlaw slavery.
Abolition
Temperance
After visiting a mental hospital, she saw the need for reform and reported her findings to the Massachusetts legislature who passed laws aimed at improving conditions.
Dorothea Dix
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
He was the most radical white abolitionist.
Frederick Douglas
William Lloyd Garrison
The group who followed the teachings of Ann Lee, sharing their goods with one another, believing men and women were equal and refusing to fight for any reason.
Quakers
Shakers
The newspaper started by William Lloyd Garrison.
The North Star
The Liberator
All Utopian Communities shared the common goal of this.
Wealth
Self-Sufficiency
The freeing of slaves with no payment to slaveholders.
Suffrage
Emancipation
Experimental groups who tried to create a perfect place.
Utopian Communities
Communes
A free black, he advised African Americans to fight for freedom rather than wait for slave owners to end slavery
Frederick Douglas
David Walker
This group emphasized reason and appeals to conscience as the paths to perfection.They believed that religious conversion was a gradual process and that social reform was both important and possible.
Transcendentalists
Unitarians
An escaped slave, became a lecturer for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglas
The idea that people should not obey laws they considered unjust by peacefully disobeying those laws
Anarchy
Civil Disobedience
The anti-slavery newspaper started by Frederick Douglas named after the star that guided runaway slaves.
The Liberator
The North Star
A gifted preacher born into slavery believed he had been chosen to lead his people out of slavery.
Nat Turner
Frederick Douglas
Abandoning community life, he built himself a cabin on the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts where he lived alone for two years. He wrote a book about his isolation in 1854 called Walden where he advised readers to follow their inner voices.
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Proslavery advocates used this to defend slavery, citing passages that counseled servants to obey their masters.
The Constitution
The Bible
A New England writer he was one of the leaders of the Transcendental movement.
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This rule in Congress prevented abolitionists from explaining their cause and reasons for wanting Congress to end slavery.
Anti-Abolitionist Rule
Gag Rule
A philosophical and literary movement that emphasized living a simple life and celebrated the truth found in nature and in personal emotion and imagination.
Transcendentalism
Naturalism
In this state, blacks, free and slave, were forbidden from preaching the Gospel unless respectable slaveholders were present
Alabama
New York
This became a political, cultural and social center for African Americans providing schools and other services that whites denied them.
The Salvation Army
The African Methodist Episcopal Church
After being captured, what happened to Nat Turner.
He escaped to Florida
He was Hanged
The Second Great Awakening also brought Christianity on a large scale to this group of people.
Native Americans
Enslaved African Americans
Large gatherings, often with crowds of 20,000 or more designed to awaken religious faith through impassioned preaching and prayer.
Festivals
Revivals
