Reform

Question 1

What was the Second Great Awakening?

Answer 1

It encouraged people to be more religious and caused social reform leading to the Reform era.

Question 2

Who was Dorothea Dix?

Answer 2

She worked to improve prison conditions and create facilities for the mentally ill.

Question 3

What was the Temperance movement?

Answer 3

Led by women, it fought to decrease alcohol consumption.

Question 4

What is an Abolitionist?

Answer 4

An individual who worked to end slavery by exposing its hardships.

Examples include Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom’s Cabin), Frederick Douglass (The North Star), Harriet Tubman (Underground Railroad), and William Lloyd Garrison (The Liberator).

Question 5

What is Transcendentalism?

Answer 5

A philosophical movement founded by Emerson and Thoreau, focusing on ideal societies and individualism, and using civil disobedience as a form of protest.

Question 6

What was the Women’s rights movement?

Answer 6

It included the Seneca Falls Convention which called for women’s suffrage and produced the Declaration of Sentiments.

Key figures include Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.