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

(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

People wanted to reform society

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

(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...

End Slavery and Promote universal suffrage

First Amendment

campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages

Reformed mental institutions in U.S.

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