Reforms

Cards (99)

  • 2nd Great Awakening
    Protestant religious revival throughout Am. colonies
  • Mormons
    1st leader was Joe Smith, known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints then the second leader was Brigham Young
  • Charles Grandison Finney
    Peacher, leader of 2nd Great Awakening did not like the transcendentalist
  • Joseph Smith
    Religious leader, who founded Mormonism
  • Brigham Young
    Religious leader, 2nd president of the Church of Jesus Christ led followers to Salt Lake Valley
  • Am. Temperance Society
    Boston 1826 growing effort of 19th-century reformers to limit alcohol consumption
  • Seneca Falls Convention
    1st woman's rights convention (discuss civil, religious and social rights of women)
  • Transcendentalism

    Literacy and intellectual movement emphasized individualism and self-reliance each person has an inner light that leads them to God
  • Dorothea Dix
    Am. Nurse, superintendent of Army Nurses, and improved the conditions for the mentally ill
  • Lucretia Mott
    Am. Quaker, abolitionist, women rights activist
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    Am. writer and activist leader of the women's rights movement
  • Henry David Thoreau
    Am. naturalist and essayist wrote "Civil Disobedience" in favor of disobedience against an unjust state
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Am. essayist, abolitionist, and led the transcendentalism movement wrote "Self Reliance"
  • Burned-Over District
    The popular name for NY region swept away in religious fervor of the 2nd great awakening
  • Industrial Rev.

    Creating goods by hand to working in factories and machines
  • Market Rev.
    Transformation from the process of making to a national commercial and industrial network
  • Samuel Slater
    Am. industrialist as the father of the Rev. helped build the textile industry and constructed a new mill, water powered cotton spinning mill
  • Eli Whitney
    Am. inventor, invented the cotton gin and created interchangeable parts for guns
  • Cotton Gin
    invented by Eli Whitney which separates cotton from seeds easier than manual seperation
  • Cult of Domesticity
    Religious belief respected the domestic role of women, which said that women belonged in their homes
  • Commonwealth v. Hunt
    Massachusetts Supreme Court decisions that strengthened the labor movement supporting the legality of unions
  • Know-nothing Party
    Nativist party emerged in response to an inflation of immigration (Irish Catholics)
  • Order of star-spangled banner
    secret society in NY created by Charles B. Allen to protest the rise of Irish and German catholic immigrants into the US
  • Nativism
    Protecting people with citizenship instead of immigrants
  • McCormick Reaper *mechanical reaper
    Mechanized harvest of grains like wheat allowed farmers to get more land. Fueled large commercial agriculture in the Midwest
  • Steel Plow
    Farm tool loosens and turn soil giving it nutrients killing weeds and inserting seeds
  • Black Belt
    Regions in deep South with high concentration of slaves, increased as cotton production became popular (Slavery expanded in the south and the west)
  • Gag Resolution
    Denied debate or action on anti-slavery appeals Driven through House of Pro-slavery southerners passed every year for 8 years (Overturned by Quincy Adams)
  • William Lloyd Garrison
    Am. journalist and abolitionist known for the anti-slavery newspaper (The Liberator) helped abolish slavery
  • Sojourner Truth
    African American abolitionist activist for civil rights, etc. Born into slavery in Swartekill, NY but escaped with her daughter
  • Pony Express
    speedy mail service between Missouri and California relied on lightweight riders galloping between closely placed outposts
  • Transportation Rev.
    Series of transportation inventions linked local and regional markets creating a national economy
  • New Harmony
    In Indiana created by Robert Owen attracted scholars and crocks, but fell apart due to infighting and confusion after two days
  • Brook Farm
    Transcendentalist emphasized living plainly and persuing life of the mind community fell into debt and dissolved when their communal home burned
  • Oneida

    The community advocated free love, birth control, and eugenics they reflected the reformist spirit of the age
  • Shakers
    lively dance worship simple communal living practiced celibacy, first formed in England later America by Mother Ann Lee by 1940s it died out
  • Horace Mann
    Am. educational reformer and slavery abolitionist (Father of Am. education)
  • Appeal to the colored citizen of the world
    Abolitionist track advocating violent overthrow of slavery published by David Walker, southern born free black
  • Revivals
    Meetings to convert people into a religion
  • Peter Cartwright
    Methodist + Baptist