APUSH - Reform Movements

She advocated for humane treatment of prisoners, juvenile delinquents, and mental asylum patients.

Dorothea Dix

These authors & poets believed that society and its institutions— religion and politics — corrupt the purity of the individual.

Transcendentalists

This group withdrew from society to form a utopian community. They are known for their furniture construction.

Shakers

His book "Civil Disobedience" argued for disobedience to an unjust government.

David Thoreau

He advocated "perfectionism", the doctrine that complete faith in Christ leads to higher level of sanctification.

Charles Finney

This movement promoted the idea that man controls his destiny & man has an obligation to improve his community.

Second Great Awakening

Rapid growth of these resulted in overcrowding and unsanitary conditions

Cities

Growth in this demographic group used their leisure time to address social ills.

middle-class women

A shift to this type of economy led to overcrowding and unsanitary conditions in urban areas

Industrialized market economy

This market failure caused unemployment, drunkenness &  destitution in urban areas

Panic of 1837

He is a former slave who became one of the most well-known and outspoken abolitionists

Frederick Douglas

Title of the abolitionist newspaper owned by William Lloyd Garrison.

The Liberator

Based on the racist beliefs that Whites are superior to Blacks, this group advocated for freed slaves to be sent to a colony in Africa.

American Colonization Society

People who advocated for an immediate end to slavery were labeled this

Radical Abolitionists

Known as the "Moses of her people", this woman escaped then helped other enslaved people escape as a conductor on the underground railroad.

Harriet Tubman

This organization published literature that warned about the dangers on alcohol consumption

American Temperance Society

Message= Alcohol consumption leads to this...

break down of the family

This reform tactic, though unsuccessful in the temperance movement, used legislation to prohibit sale of alcohol 

coersion

This reform tactic was the act of persuading a person or group to act in a certain way through rhetorical appeals, persuasion, or implicit and explicit threats 

moral suasion

Temperance movement inspired this future movement for national ban on alcohol from 1920 to 1933

Prohibition

The first public schools were called “this” and were usually a one-room school where children of all classes and religions could attend

Common school

He is known as the “father of American education,” and played a big role in establishing compulsory education.

Horace Mann

The topic of most common school lessons were these.

Republican values, discipline, hard work, manners

This region did NOT benefit from the public education movement due to a history of strict social stratification.

South

The first widely used elementary school-level textbooks were written by these brothers. 

McGuffey

This document is a public statement that women are endowed with unalienable rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness

Declaration of Sentiments

This was a major goal of the early women's rights movement.

voting, suffrage

The women's rights movement was joined forces with then was overshadowed by this movement.

abolition

She is an author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the woman's rights movment.

Elizabeth Cady-Stanton

Held in 1848 this event was the first conference ever held for women's rights.

Seneca Falls Convention