TEKS review day 5 Flashcards
(24 cards)
Hudson River School
Artists painted huge landscapes of American scenery
John James Audubon
Painted American Wildlife - mostly birds
Transcendentalism
American philosophy that the spiritual/internal is more important that the physical/material
Henry David Thoreuh
Practiced Civil Disobedience by not paying taxes that supported war with Mexico
2nd Great Awakening
Renewal of religious faith in the early 1800’s - helped to awaken the reform movement
Abolition Movement
Goal was to end slavery in the US
Frederick Douglass
Former slave; famous speaker and author of a best-selling autobiography
Sojourner Truth
Former slave, leading abolitionist and defender of women’s rights
William Lloyd Garrison
Published anti-slavery newspaper called “The Liberator”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, her book convinced many Northerners to become abolitionists.
Temperance Movement
Movement to stop the drinking of alcohol; led by women and factory owners
John Quincy Adams
Elected to House of Reps after serving as POTUS; fought “gag-rule” in Congress
Harriet Tubman
4 things
Former Slave, abolitionist, conductor on Underground railroad; Union spy - Civil War
Workers Rights Movement
workers formed labor unions; banded together to demand better working conditions.
Prison Reforms
Leaders called for separate jails for children and rehabilitation programs for prisoners
Care for the mentally Ill
Dorthea Dix convinced Mass. legislature to build hospitals to treat the mentally ill
Education Reform
Leader Horace Mann called public Education “great equalizer”; pushed for public high schools
Women’s Rights Movement
Demand equal rights including suffrage (right to vote)
What is suffrage?
Right to vote
What is the right to vote called?
Suffrage
Women’s’ Rights Movement -
organized ____ for women’s rights
Seneca Falls Convention
Women’s’ Rights Movement -
Leader included ____ and Susan B. Anothony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Horace Mann
Education Reform
