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The W in the word "water"
What are women?
The A in the word "water"
What is abolition?
The T in the word "water"
What is temperance?
The E in the word "water"
What is education?
The R in the word "water"
What is religion?
Wanted to vote and have equal rights, with their biggest goal being to add a constitutional amendment allowing women to vote.
What were women's rights?
Escaped slavery and helped many other slaves escape with the Underground Railroad system.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
Limited the amount of alcohol you could consume.
What was the temperance movement?
Wanted to have free education for everyone.
What was the education reform movement?
A religious revival that emphasised individual responsibility.
What was the Great Awakening?
During this time, slaves were gaining many rights, and women thought it was only fair for them to ask for more rights too.
Why did the women's rights movement start in the 1800s?
Wanted immediate freedom and emancipation for all slaves.
What was the abolitionist movement?
An amendment voted for by women.
Why was the temperance movement important?
Wanted to prevent the rich from controlling society.
Why did the education movement start?
Many U.S. citizens didn't attend church.
Why did the Great Awakening occur?
Organized a convention to help with the women's rights movement.
Who were Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott?
Spoke out against their parents for being slave owners.
Who are the Grimki Sisters.
Women's husbands were heavily drinking, causing them to go broke and beat their wives.
Why did the temperance movement start?
The reformer for education.
Who was Horace Mann?
Converted over half a million people to a reformed form of Christianity.
Who was Charles Finney?
The 1st time women stood up for themselves and spoke out about what was wrong with the way they were being treated.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
Church membership was steadily increasing, and slavery went against the beliefs of many Christians. Northerners began to feel it was outdated in a modern society.
Why did the abolitionist movement start?
Rode around with an axe that said "death to rum" and smashed bars.
Who was Carrie Nation?
In 1821, the 1st free high school opened.
In 1825, the first girls' high school opened.
In 1827, schools had to provide free education.
In 1852, the first attendance policy was created.
What were the lasting effects of the ducation reform movement?
Helped with the women's rights movement by giving women public roles.
How did the Second Great Awakening contribute to other reform movements?