Vocab
What is the Second Great Awakening?
Religious revival in the 1800's
Who was most known for helping to reform education?
Horace Mann
Women eventually earned the right to have control over their property and wages. Ladies may choose to separate from their teammate if they so choose. If you separate, you shall each retain the same amount of points you had prior to separation.
Important choices
How were the lives of women and enslaved people similar?
Both had limited rights
These scores seem unfair... let's reform them to make them more equal.
Average the scores and give everyone the same score.
Prisons
You've been put in debtors prison for owing your neighbors money.
Option 1: Give every other team 100 points
Option 2: Lose one turn. You cannot answer the next question and earn points.
Always pay back your money
Name two rights that women did not have in the 1800's.
- Right to own property
- Right to their own money
- Right to vote
What was the Declaration of Sentiments modeled after?
Declaration of Independence
Why did William Lloyd Garrison become an abolitionist?
Religious beliefs
What came first: the abolitionist movement or the women's rights movement?
Abolitionist
True or False:
Girls benefitted the most from early school reforms.
False
Boys
What is an abolitionist?
People working to eliminate slavery.
Why was Fredrick Douglas' newspaper important?
Spread abolitionist ideas to more people.
What are two reasons that Elizabeth Blackwell had a difficult time becoming a doctor?
- Medical schools didn't accept women
- People didn't want to hire her because she was a woman
Who organized the Seneca Falls Convention?
Lucretia Mott
People who trust their emotions and intuition.
Transcendentalists
How did Henry David Thoreau show individualism?
By questioning the rules of society
What motivated Elizabeth Cady Stanton to become involved in women's rights reform?
- Wasn't allowed to speak in public
or
- Overheard as a child her father unable to help women as a lawyer
What were two obstacles that women who were trying to end slavery faced?
- Couldn't speak in public
- Couldn't vote
- Couldn't hold government positions
What was an immediate effect of the Seneca Falls Convention?
Women began organizing a plan for which rights they wanted to fight for.