Reform Movement - Social movement that tries to improve society, Second Great Awakening - religious revival in the 1800s that shifted beliefs from predestination to free will. Started the reform movements, Utopia - Perfect society. Transcendentalists lived in the communities., Temperance Movement - Social movement against alcoholic beverages, Horace Mann - Massachusetts lawyer that fought for education reform, Dorothea Dix - Schoolteacher that worked for prison and mental health reforms, Transcendentalism - Stressed relationship between man and nature and relying on your inner voice, Henry David Thoreau - transcendentalist who practiced civil disobedience by not paying his taxes, Civil Disobedience - breaking laws in a non-violent way to prove a point, Harriet Beecher Stowe - Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, Uncle Tom's Cabin - Novel that explored the injustices of slavery, Susan B. Anthony - Women's Rights and Abolitionist advocate put on $1 coin, Seneca Falls, New York - 1st Women's Rights Convention held here., Suffrage - The right to vote, Abolition Movement - movement to end slavery, Frederick Douglass - former slave that spoke against slavery. Publish a newspaper called The North Star., William Lloyd Garrison - Founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society and the newspaper The Liberator, Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Women's Rights supporter. Organized the Seneca Falls Convention and wrote the Declaration of Sentiments., Ralph Waldo Emerson - Founded the Transcendentalist Movement. Writings include Nature and The American Scholar., Hudson River School - art school founded by Thomas Cole that focused on nature and the American landscape. , John James Audubon - known for is research and drawings of American birds, Underground Railroad - Secret organization that helped slaves escape to freedom. Harriet Tubman was a famous conductor,

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