CHAPTER 12 GML APUSH AN AGE OF REFORM

Utopian society

ideal society that is seemingly impossible to create and focused on non-individualist ideas

Thomas More

writer of utopia

Shakers

believed the two sexes were equal and rejected traditional family units opting to adopt children instead

Oneida

leader and followers had all reached a level of spiritual perfection and were against private property

Brook farm

an attempt at utopia that failed due to a lack of people willing to do manual labor

communitariansim

all of humanity has a mutual interest and people are assured to receive the full value of their labor

New harmony

the community started by owenites

perfectionism

individuals and society at large have the ability to indefinitely improve

temperance movement

sought to stop the consumption of alcohol and started experience meetings

reformer movement

responsible for the creation of asylums, orphanages, and jails

common schools

tax supported state schools open to all children

American Colonization Society

promoted the gradual abolition of slavery and the settlement of black americans in africa

militant abolitionism

a perfect society roots out racism of all forms and that white Americans faced divine punishment if they didn’t work towards this

American Anti-Slavery Society

group of northerners focused on abolition

garrison

most noticeable abolitionist propagandist

moral suasion

making slavery an immoral action rather than focusing on violent rebellion

wage slavery

people should have the right of self ownership to do things like change jobs and the system of _ stopped this

Uncle’s Tom Cabin

famous piece of antislavery literature that portrayed enslaved people as sympathetic and human and also the evils of slaveholders

gag rule

rule prohibited the consideration of abolitionist efforts

Dorothea Dix

leading advocate of more humane treatment of the insane

woman suffrage

movement for women’s right to vote

Liberty party

party focused on radical ideas like abolitionism and women’s rights