Reason that some reformers turned to the issue of women's rights
What is they believed that women had an important contribution to make to society.
100
The main leader of the movement for educational reform.
Who is Horace Mann
100
One of the most powerful black speakers for abolitionism
Who is Frederick Douglass
100
To create a perfect society.
What is the reason behind Utopian communities.
100
Organized attempts to improve conditions of life motivated by both political and religious ideas.
What is social reform
200
Purpose of the Declaration of Sentiments
What is to discuss the social, civil and religious rights of women.
200
3 ways schools improved during this period.
What is colleges to train teachers, raised salaries for teachers and lengthened the school year.
200
Four cotton producing states/slave states.
What is Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
200
The idea that God decided the fate of a person's soul even before birth.
What is predestination
200
She encouraged the creation of asylums for the mentally ill.
Who is Dorothea Dix
300
Delegates at the Seneca Falls Convention compared the women's rights movement to this historical event.
What is the American struggle for independence
300
Status of the schoolhouse in early America.
What is a one room classroom with all grades together.
300
Two prominent leaders of the early republic that opposed slavery.
Who are Alexander Hamilton and Ben Franklin
300
People's actions determine their salvation.
What is the Doctrine of Freewill
300
Denying some students access to public schools because of race.
What is discrimination
400
Date that women gained suffrage and number of the amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
What is 1920 and 19th.
400
Role of Textbooks in early America.
What is to teach moral values.
400
A network of people, black and white, northern and southern, who secretly helped slaves reach freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad
400
A religious and philosophical movement which developed in the eastern U.S. during the 1820's and 1830's. Core beliefs included the idea that man and nature are inherently good. Society and social institutions corrupt the purity of man
What is transcendentalism.
400
An effort to end alcohol abuse and the problems created by it.
What is the temperance movement
500
This is the formal definition of the Women's Rights Movement
What is the organized effort to improve the political, legal and economic status of women in American society
500
Type of discipline used the the early American classroom.
What is sitting in the corner with a dunce cap.
500
Reason that some northerners opposed abolition.
What is fear of losing their jobs.
500
During this reform movement, people were inspired to improve their communities. Many Utopian communities were created due to this reform movement.
What is the Second Great Awakening.
500
Many were not criminals, many had mental illnesses and the living conditions were inhumane.