1. Reforming American Society
Chapter 8
Reforming American Society

2. Transcendentalism
An idealistic philosophical and social movement that developed in New England around It taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and its members held progressive views on feminism. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were central figures.

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

4. Abolition
The action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution.
In this case we will be talking about the abolition of slavery.
People who support abolition are called abolitionist.

5. Antebellum
Occurring or existing before the American Civil War.

6. Slave Codes
Slave codes were laws in each US state, which defined the status of slaves and the rights of masters. These codes gave slave-owners absolute power over the enslaved Africans.

7. Temperance Movement
A temperance movement is a social movement urging reduced or prohibited use of alcoholic beverages. Temperance movements typically criticize excessive alcohol use, promote complete abstinence, or pressure the government to enact anti-alcohol legislation or complete prohibition of alcohol.

8. Suffrage
The right to vote in political elections.