Era of Reform

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Across
  1. 4. Author of Walden; believed in simple living and civil disobedience
  2. 5. Advocate who exposed harsh treatment of prisoners and the mentally ill
  3. 7. The act of improving society through change and action
  4. 9. Newspaper calling for immediate emancipation of enslaved people
  5. 10. Movement emphasizing the importance of nature, self-reliance, and spiritual connection beyond materialism
  6. 12. Great Awakening Religious revival that inspired many reform movements
  7. 14. Cady Stanton Organized the Seneca Falls Convention for women’s rights
  8. 16. Large outdoor religious meetings during the Second Great Awakening
  9. 17. Former enslaved woman who spoke out for both abolition and women’s rights
  10. 21. Philosopher and writer who led the Transcendentalist movement
  11. 24. Movement aimed at improving conditions for prisoners and the mentally ill
  12. 27. Escaped enslaved woman who led others to freedom through the Underground Railroad
  13. 28. B. Anthony Women’s rights and temperance leader who fought for suffrage
  14. 29. Peaceful refusal to obey unjust laws, promoted by Thoreau
  15. 30. fighting for equal treatment and voting rights for women
Down
  1. 1. Ideal societies created by reformers to achieve social perfection
  2. 2. Movement that promoted free public schooling and trained teachers
  3. 3. Secret network of safe houses that helped enslaved people escape to freedom
  4. 6. of Sentiments Document written at Seneca Falls demanding equal rights for women
  5. 8. reformers sought to abolish during the mid-1800s
  6. 11. Person who worked actively to end slavery
  7. 13. encouraging people to stop drinking alcohol
  8. 15. Falls Site of the first women’s rights convention in 1848
  9. 18. Education reformer known as the “Father of Public Education”
  10. 19. Transcendentalist experiment in communal living in Massachusetts
  11. 20. Douglass Former enslaved man who became a powerful abolitionist speaker and writer
  12. 22. Bloomer Women’s rights advocate known for promoting dress reform
  13. 23. Movement to end slavery in the United States
  14. 25. Author and reformer who supported women’s independence and abolition
  15. 26. Publisher of The Liberator, an antislavery newspaper