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Reform/Culture
reform movements
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Reform | to change a behavior or law for the betterment of society |
| Hudson River School | a group of American painters that began to create art in a truly American style, usually painting landscapes |
| Transcendentalism | the belief that the spiritual world is more important than physical comfort |
| Second Great Awakening | a period of religious growth in the United States, during which more people became interested in solving the problems they saw in American society. |
| Temperance Movement | an attempt to ban (outlaw) the production and sale of alcoholic products which were seen as causing misery, poverty and crime amongst the poor. |
| Labor Movement | groups of workers joined together to demand better working conditions such as, higher wages, shorter hours and more safety in the new factories |
| Horace Mann | leader in the public education movement; wanted all children to be able to get at least a primary (early elementary) education |
| Dorothea Dix | worked to get improved treatment for the mentally ill |
| Sarah Hale | published a magazine for women; a result of more leisure time when more people were reading |
| Utopian | an ideal (perfect) community |
| Abolition | the movement to eliminate slavery from the United States |
| William Lloyd Garrison | published The Liberator, an anti-slavery newspaper; early abolitionist |
| Underground Railroad | a secret way to help slaves escape from slavery in the South |
| Harriet Tubman | most well know conductor on the Underground Railroad |
| Frederick Douglass | a former slave that spoke for abolition; encouraged A. Lincoln to emancipate the slaves during the Civil War |
| Sojourner Truth | escaped slave that spoke for abolition and women’s rights |
| Sarah and Angelina Grimke | former southern slaveholders that spoke against slavery |
| Women’s Rights Movement | began in the mid-1800s to advocate for equal treatment and rights for women |
| Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton | early activists in the women’s rights movement |
| Seneca Falls Convention | meeting of supporters of women’s rights in Seneca Falls, New York; wrote the Declaration of Sentiments |
| Declaration of Sentiments | a document that advocated equal rights for women, modelled on the Declaration of Independence |
| Susan B. Anthony | strong advocate for the rights of women; made the movement a national one |
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