Antebellum Reform Movements

Learning Target: 
 I can discuss the social reform movements that developed in the United States from 1790-1860.

Critical Vocabulary:
Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience,” Second Great Awakening,Charles Grandison Finney, Oberlin College, New Harmony, Brook Farm, Shakers, Oneida Colony, Joseph Smith, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young, Dorothea Dix, Horace Mann, Catharine Beecher, Temperance Movement, American Temperance Union, Sarah and Angelina Grimké, Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Seneca Falls Convention, "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions," Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Blackwell, "Peculiar Institution," American Colonization Society, Nat Turner's Rebellion, William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, American Anti-Slavery Society, Theodore Dwight Weld, Frederick Douglass,  "Gag Rule," Liberty Party, Free Soil Party

Lesson Resources:
Use the following resources to prepare for the exam on the Antebellum Reform Movements:

• Antebellum Reform Movements Reading
• 19th Century Reforms Video
• Women in the 19th Century Video