Social Reform
This wave of religious fervor dominated the early 1800's in the United States.
Second Great Awakening
This group of people sought to end slavery in the United States.
Abolitionists
What convention took place in July of 1848.
Seneca Falls Convention
Who started the public-school system as we know it today?
Horace Mann
Drinking little or no alcohol.
Temperance
Religious camp meetings on the frontier that saw the presence of great speakers and preachers of the era.
Revivals
This was a system of safe houses and antislavery sympathizer that helped enslaved people reach freedom in the North.
The Underground Railroad
What was the fight for the right to vote called?
Suffrage
What were some troubles of the early public-school system.
Poorly funded, teachers lacked training, and females received little training.
Religious movement with frontier camp meetings.
Revivals
This Connecticut minister was a crusader against the production, distribution and consumption of alcohol
Lyman Beecher
The most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
What were some of the reforms the Women's movement called for.
They called for equal pay, college training, and coeducation, and finally the right to vote.
What college eventually allowed the admission of women and African Americans?
Oberlin College of Ohio in 1833.
People who worked to abolish, or end, slavery.
Abolitionists
This Northern state was home to one of the first laws banning the manufacture and sale of alcohol
Maine
Society was formed to buy back slaves and send them to this country in Africa.
American Colonization Society and they sent them to Liberia.
What changes in law and government took place due to the movement?
They got the right to vote in 1920. They also got to own property after they married.
What were the main three reforms to help with hearing, vision and special needs reform?
Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe focused on the Visually impaired. Dorothea Dix visited the mentally impaired. And Thomas Gallaudet focused on people who were hearing impaired.
The network of escape routes from the South to the North.
Underground Railroad
The temperance movement of the mid 1850's lost steam after several years the movement was revived however and led to the passage of this amendment in 1917
18th amendment
How did Southerners try to justify slavery and thwart the abolitionist movement?
"They needed slaves, they treated them well." They claimed, "Northern workers had it worse." Etc.
How did the Women's movement connect with other social movements of the time?
They connected because they focused on the subjects being wrong.
Early school houses were run by under trained teachers, what schools came about to train teachers?
The right to vote.
Suffrage