Movements
This movement encouraged a substantial decrease in alcohol consumption.
What is Temperance?
This group of people were generally opposed to the Temperance movement.
Who are Catholics?
This prevented antislavery petitions from being heard in Congress.
What is the Gag Rule?
Event considered to be the start of the first wave feminist movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
These institutions provided career opportunities for women.
What were common schools?
Three now illegal drugs that were common in 19th century patent medicines.
What are cocaine, cannabis, and heroin.
Famous axe-weilding activist of the Temperance Movement.
Who is Carry Nation?
Reform movements of the 19th century were largely influenced by this religious movement.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This allegory was frequently used in Temperance propaganda.
What is The Drunkard's Progress?
This group made the issue of abolition political.
What was the Liberty Party?
The term suffrage means this.
What is the right to vote?
Advocates for asylums and institutions believed social ills were this.
What is curable?
These traditional practitioners were pushed out of practice by professional male doctors.
Who are midwives?
Author of the influential anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom’s Cabin".
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The belief that individuals and society are capable of indefinite improvement.
What is perfectionism?
The American Temperance Society wanted Americans to do this.
What is stop all consumption of alcohol?
This group advocated relocating freed black people to Africa.
What is the American Colonization Society?
Concept that caused women to lose the right to own money and property once they got married.
What is coverture?
Reformers believed prisons and asylums could do this for inmates.
What is rehabilitation?
Concept that was the root of major advancements in 19th century medicine.
What is Germ Theory?
Urged the suffrage movement to focus on poor, and working-class women.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
The reform movements of the 19th century sought to combat these.
What are the evils and sins of society?
Many women in the Temperance movement were also fighting for this.
What is the right to vote?
The abolitionist movement adopted and named this famous symbol of the American Revolution.
What is the Liberty Bell?
Movement focused on promoting practical clothing for women.
What is Rational Dress Reform?
Dorothea Dix discovered that the conditions for prisoners and the mentally ill in early America were like this.
What is overcrowded and lacking basic needs?
Five poisons commonly used in patent medicines - the cure was worse than the disease.
What are arsenic, strychnine, belladonna, mercury, and radium?
South Carolina sisters, influential in both Abolition and the Women's Movement.
Who are Angelina & Sarah Grimke?
Region and class identity most associated with reform movements in the nineteenth century.
What is northern middle class?
One of the largest and most influential reform organizations of the 19th century.
What is the Women's Christian Temperance Union?
This issue split the abolition movement into two factions in 1840.
What was the role of women?
Susan B Anthony was the first American woman to be honored this way.
What is appear on American currency?
This type of institution was central to good citizenship, democratic participation and societal well-being
What is public schooling?
This highly infectious disease was known as "consumption".
What is tuberculosis?
Militant abolitionist who led the raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
The majority of 19th century reform movements were the result of this.
What is conflict/inequality?
The temperance movement believed alcohol threatened their safety.
Who are women and children?
William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper.
What is The Liberator?
Women's fashion trends in the 19th century typically received this from men and the media.
What is mockery?
Institutions worked to create productive, self-disciplined citizens based on this religious ideal.
What is perfectionism?
Squalid conditions and overcrowding in this type of housing allowed infectious disease to spread rapidly in cities.
What are tenements?
Led the movement for humane mental institutions.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
To members of the North’s emerging middle-class culture, participation in reform movements became a badge of this.
What is social respectability?
Derogatory term for those who abstained from alcohol.
What is Teetotaler?
Quakers argued that slavery violated these.
What are Christian principles?
Restriction of women after marriage to their home and family, with few legal protections/rights was know as this.
What is the Cult of Domesticity?
Facility meant to support and provide housing for the dependent or needy.
What is the poorhouse?
This variable skews the average 19th century life expectancy calculation.
What is the infant mortality rate?
Founder of the Common School system.
Who is Horace Mann?
Reform movements gave women the opportunity to be this.
What is politically active?
The Temperance movement eventually led to the passage of this policy in 1919.
What is Prohibition?
This Constitutional amendment abolished slavery in America.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The document written at Seneca Falls that condemned the structure of gender inequality.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
Examples include "novel reading", "marriage of son", and "overaction of the mind".
What are reasons women could be committed to an asylum?
Hospitals shifted from “a place to be sick and die” to modern medical institutions offering this.
What is "a place to live and get well"?
Civil War Nurse and founder of the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
The convention that first organized a movement toward women’s suffrage in the United States.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
Carry Nation sold these in order to pay bail for her many arrests.
What are axes?
A major example of civil disobedience against the practice of slavery.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Most of the First Wave Feminists did not live to see women gain the vote with the 1920 passage of this.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Percent of children in orphanages who had parents who were unable, unwilling, or deemed unfit to care for them.
What is 80 to 90 percent?
The advent of hospitals caused impersonal interactions between these two groups of people.
Who are caregiver and patient?
Namesake of the popular Rational Dress outfit.
Who is Amelia Bloomer?
The restructuring of culturally accepted laws and norms is this.
What is social reform?
The Temperance movement sought to end excessive drinking for this reason.
What is the safety of women and children?
Group that opposed the expansion of slavery into new states.
What is the Free Soil Party?
Women's suffrage activists opposed the 15th Amendment for this reason.
What is exclude them from voting?
Both Dorothea Dix and Clara Barton were in this profession before becoming nurses in the Civil War.
What is teaching?
Male doctors believed this was the root of all of women’s health problems.
What is the reproductive system?
Suffragist, abolitionist, first female war correspondent.
Who is Margaret Fuller?