History Unit 8 Test

Horace Mann

Leader of the public school movement, pushed for better schools, trained teachers, and education for all children

Dorothea Dix

Reformer who worked to improve treatment of the mentally ill and helped create mental hospitals

William Lloyd Garrison

Radical abolitionist who demanded the immediate end of slavery

The Liberator

An abolitionist newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison

Mormons

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, moved west to escape persecution

Transcendentalism

A belief that people should rely on intuition, nature, and self-reliance rather than society’s rules

Temperance

Movement to reduce or ban alcohol consumption

Abolitionism

Movement to end slavery in the United States

Women’s Rights

Movement seeking equal rights for women, including education, property rights, and voting

Educational Reform

Efforts to improve schools, teaching, and access to education

Asylum and Penitentiary Reform

Movement to improve conditions and mental hospitals and prisons

Henry David Thoreau

Transcendentalist writer, believed in civil disobedience and simple living

Nat Turner

Led a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831

Second Great Awakening

Religious revival that inspired reform movements like abolition and temperance

Cult of Domesticity

Belief that women should focus on home, family, and morality

Frederick Douglass

Former enslaved person who became a powerful abolitionist speaker and writer

Working Conditions

Issues faced by workers, including long hours, low pay, and unsafe environments

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Leader of Transcendentalism, emphasized self-reliance and individualism

Harriet Tubman

Abolitionist who helped enslaved people escape using the Underground Railroad

The North Star

Abolitionist newspaper founded by Frederick Douglass

Declaration of Rights and Women

Document from the Seneca Falls Convention calling for equal rights for women

Utopian Society

A community created to achieve a perfect or ideal way of living