Culture and Reform Vocabulary

Reform

• To amend or improve by change of form or removal of faults or abuses

Culture

• The beliefs, customs, arts, etc. of a particular society, groups, place, or time

Suffrage

• The right to vote

Abolition/Abolitionists

• Movement fighting to make slavery illegal

• People fighting for the end of slavery

Temperance

• Movement to make alcohol illegal

Convention

• A large meeting of people who share a common interest

Underground Railroad

• A network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved African Americans in effort to reach free states and/or Canada

Transcendentalists

• People who were supported an intellectual movement that began as a response to the 2nd Great Awakening (religious movement)

• Promoted individualism, self-reliance, freedom from society, and emphasized emotions

Civil Disobedience

• The refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest