Unit 8--Reform Movement Flashcards
What was the Prohibition Movement/Temperance’s purpose?
to control excessive drinking
Leaders of Prohibition Movement/Temperance purpose?
Lyman Beecher, Neal Dow
and Women
What were the believed results of Temperance?
would reduce crime, poverty, and increase workers’ output
Who founded The American
Temperance Society and when?
The American
Temperance Society was
co-founded by ministers
Lyman Beecher and Justin
Edwards in 1826
What is the Maine Law
a bill signed in 1851 that prohibit the sale and manufacture of liquor
What did Dorothea Dix
campaigned for?
humane mental
hospitals
Why did Dorothea Dix
campaigned for humane mental hospitals?
After witnessing the
conditions of prisons,
almshouses and
hospitals in
Massachusetts.
What were some of the results of Prison reforms?
New types of prisons were built to rehabilitate the prisoners so they would feel penitence and be turned into productive, law-abiding citizens
What were some of the results of Mental hospitals reforms?
State schools for the deaf and blind were funded and Mental hospitals were established and
Patients received Professional treatment at the states’ expense
Some pros about the Educational reform?
Free common school, Compulsory attendance, and
the public schools were used to
instill a Protestant work ethic
Some cons about the Educational reform?
People needed their children to work and The South fell behind the rest of
the nation in public education
Definition of Transcendentalism?
a philosophy
from well-educated New
Englanders
that stressed the importance of nature, nonconformity, self-reliance, and free thought
Leaders of Transcendentalism were?
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller and
Amos Bronson Alcott
Transcendentalists were known for?
Questioning the government and supporting reforms
What are Utopias and some examples
Groups withdrew from
society to create a perfect community. Brook Farm
, New Harmony, and Shakers
Some religious
leaders were?
Richard Allen, Charles G. Finney, Lyman Beecher, Mother Ann Lee, William Miller, and Joseph Smith
What is the 2nd Great Awakening?
a period of religious revival that
began in the late
The 1700s and peaked in the
1820s-1840s when evangelical
preachers converted people to
Christianity.
What happened because of the 2nd great awakening
Membership of Baptist and
Methodist churches skyrocketed
Who were the leaders of women’s suffrage
Sarah & Angelina Grimke, Lucretia Motts, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Why did women want suffrage?
They also did not want
to be bound by the Cult
of Domesticity and they wanted to right to vote
What is the Declaration of
Sentiments about
a document declaring the civil, political, social, and religious rights of Women
Who were leaders of the abolition movement
Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth
and Harriet Tubman
What was the gag rule?
In the mid 1830s, the
House of Representatives
banned the discussion
and submission of
anti-slavery bills
What did the 1850 Fugitives Slave Act do?
Made it illegal to help runaway slaves
