Culture Reform Flashcards
What were the effects of the cotton gin?
A higher need of slaves.
How did the second great awakening contribute to the social reforms?
Preachers said if they did good deeds it would save their souls.
Which reform movement wanted to abolish alcohol consumption?
The Temperance movement.
Who was responsible for reform in education in Massachusetts?
Porous Mann.
What were the goals of abolitionists?
To end slavery.
Who was probably the MOST prominent abolitionist?
Frederick Douglass.
Where did the women’s rights movement begin?
Seneca Falls.
Who were prominent members of the women’s rights movement?
Elizabeth Stanton
Lucricia Mott
Susan B. Anthony
Sojourner Truth.
Who were some examples of transcendentalists?
Emerson
Thoreau
Walt Whitman.
What was the idea behind Civil Disobedience?
Disobeying the laws to change them.
Who was a French American Ornithologist who made detailed paintings of birds?
John James Audobon.
Who was known as the “Father of American Free Verse”?
Walt Whitman
