U.S. HISTORY Page 1
Reforming American Society, 1820—1850
Name:
Mrs. Dickinson
STUDY GUIDE, CHAPTER 8
Date/Period:
Chapter 8 Objective:
To recognize the causes and effects of the Second Great Awakening and to understand the various social and
labor reform movements that swept the nation during the first half of the 19th century.
You should know the definitions of the following terms, and the answers to the objectives.
This information can be found in the textbook, in class activities, and in homework and in class
assignments.
This study guide must be in your folder and in class every day.
Students can expect daily quizzes on the sections covered in class and on the next day’s sections: check the
posted reading due dates.
Vocabulary you should know: these terms will appear on section quizzes, tests, etc.
artisan
controversy
literary
plight
prejudice
prompt
repeal
salvation
Self-reliance
Wage
Ch. 8 Sect 1: Religion Sparks Reform
Second Great Awakening
revival
Ralph Waldo Emerson
transcendentalism
Henry David Thoreau
Dorothea Dix
utopian communities
civil disobedience
Charles Grandison Finney
Horace Mann
Unitarianism
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Objectives:
1. Describe the new religious movements that swept the United States after 1790.
2. Describe the new philosophy that offered an alternative to traditional religion.
3. Explain the reforms demanded in education, mental hospitals, and prisons.
4. Describe the common features of utopian communities.
Ch. 8 Section 2: Slavery and Abolition
abolition
William Lloyd Garrison
emancipation
David Walker
Nat Turner
Frederick Douglass
antebellum
gag rule
U.S. HISTORY Page 2
Mrs. Dickinson
Reforming American Society, 1820—1850
STUDY GUIDE, CHAPTER 8
Name:
Date/Period:
Objectives:
1. Identify some of the key black and white abolitionists.
2. Compare and contrast the experience of slaves in rural and urban areas.
3. Summarize the proslavery debate in the South - what reasons did pro-slavery advocates give to
support their opinion?
Chapter 8 Section 3: Women and Reform
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Blackwell
Sarah and Angelina Grimké
cult of domesticity
Seneca Falls convention
temperance movement
Sojourner Truth
Objectives:
1. Explain why women’s opportunities were limited in the mid-1850s.
2. Identify the reform movements in which women participated.
3. Describe the progress of the expanding women’s rights movement
Chapter 8 Section 4: The Changing Workplace
putting-out system
master
journeyman
apprentice
strike
National Trades’ Union
Objectives:
1. Show how new manufacturing techniques shifted the production of goods from home to factory.
2. Describe the conditions female employees endured in factories.
3. Describe the attempts of factory workers to organize unions.
4. What effect does increased immigration have on industrialization in the United States in the 1840s and
1850s?