Unit 8 Vocabulary - Reform

Question 1

Reform

Answer 1

a social movement that aims to bring change or improvements to society

Question 2

Second Great Awakening

Answer 2

religious revival in the United States during the early 19th century that caused reform movements

Question 3

Abolitionist Movement

Answer 3

movement to end slavery

Question 4

Temperance Movement

Answer 4

the movement to ban the drinking of alcohol.

Question 5

Declaration of Rights and Sentiments

Answer 5

written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, this was the framework of the push for women’s suffrage and equal rights.

Question 6

Fugitive Slave Law 1850

Answer 6

included in the compromise of 1850, this law allowed southerners to capture runaway slaves to be returned to the south.

Question 7

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Answer 7

leader of the push for women’s rights during the mid-1800s. She is also a leader in Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.

Question 8

Lucretia Mott

Answer 8

an abolitionist and social reformer who was a leader for the women’s rights movement.

Question 9

Seneca Falls Convention

Answer 9

a meeting in Seneca Falls, it is also a women’s right convention in United State to fight for women suffrage.

Question 10

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 10

an anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 11

Hudson River School

Answer 11

a movement of art in the United States focusing on the Hudson River Valley painting landscape.

Question 12

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Answer 12

leading figure in the transcendental movement by creating literary works pushing for reform.