4.3 Changes in US Society Flashcards
What did the Transcendentalists start?
Brook Farm (on quiz)
Who organized the Seneca Falls Convention and demanded suffrage?
Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Stanton (possibly on quiz)
What was the Declaration of Sentiments modeled after?
Declaration of Independence
Who wrote “The Liberator?”
William L. Garrison (possibly on quiz)
Who wrote “The North Star?”
Frederick Douglass (possibly on quiz)
Who sparked the wave of reform?
middle class
What was the “burned-over district?”
New York
Temperance
to ban alcohol for health and productivity
“Maine Law”
enforced statewide prohibition
Horace Mann
created public schools
Dorothea Dix
sought better treatment for prisoners and the mentally ill
What was the “Cult of Domesticity?”
women’s role clearly defined
Joseph Smith
started Mormon church
What did Emerson encourage?
forging of unique American identity
