Horace Mann led the movement to establish free, state financed elementary schools
Effects of the Second Great Awakening
People wanted to reform society
Goals of Women's Rights Movements
End Slavery and Promote universal suffrage
Transcendentalism
Values nature and doing the right thing. Major leaders: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau
Temperance Movement
campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages
Frederick Douglass
(1817-1895) American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer. He published his biograph...
Susan B. Anthony
Key leader of woman suffrage movement
Dorothea Dix
Reformed mental institutions in U.S.
Seneca Falls Convention
(1848) the first national women's rights convention at which the Declaration of Sentiments was written, campainged for women to receive the right to v...
Prison Reform Movement
the attempt to improve conditions inside prisons, establish a more effective penal system, or implement alternatives to incarceration.
Labor Reform Movement
movement to improve working conditions and working hours; led by the Lowell Mill Girls who initiated the first strike.
Amendment related to Second Great Awakening
First Amendment
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