End Slavery and Promote universal suffrage

(1817-1895) American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer. He published his biograph...

the attempt to improve conditions inside prisons, establish a more effective penal system, or implement alternatives to incarceration.

Key leader of woman suffrage movement

First Amendment

Reformed mental institutions in U.S.

(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...

People wanted to reform society

Values nature and doing the right thing. Major leaders: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau

movement to improve working conditions and working hours; led by the Lowell Mill Girls who initiated the first strike.

campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages

Horace Mann led the movement to establish free, state financed elementary schools