Vocabulary
This person dedicated her life to helping improve conditions for the imprisoned.
Who is Dorthea Dix?
This leader in Education Reform is sometimes called the "father of American Public Schools".
Who is Horace Mann?
This former slave was an excellent speaker, as well as the first former slave to write an autobiography.
Frederick Douglass
These women decided a women's rights movement was needed after being barred from taking part in an Antislavery convention. (2 answers - at least 1 correct CAN get you the point, but other teams can steal if they have both)
Who are Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
The name of the movement to end slavery.
What is abolition/abolitionism?
These groups did not have separate systems, so were often put in regular jails with regular criminals (2 answers - at least 1 correct CAN get you the point, but other teams can steal if they have both)
Who are children and the mentally ill?
Because African Americans and women were often not allowed to attend school, education reform is sometimes called a(n) "________" reform.
What is unfinished?
This former slave helped somewhere between 300 and 500 slaves escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This lifelong reformer spent time with the abolitionist and temperance movements before joining the women's rights movement in 1851 after meeting Elizabeth Cady Stanton. In 1979, she became the 1st woman to appear on American money.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
A common reason people would be jailed - they might spend years locked up if someone on the outside couldn't take care of this "crime" for them.
What is debt?
In addition to public schools for children, Horace Mann helped to create schools for this group of people.
Who are teachers?
This reformer gave a speech speaking out against racism and sexism, now known as the "Ain't I a Woman?" speech.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments was modeled after this document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The amount of time Dorthea Dix spent documenting prison conditions before making her report to congress.
What is two years?
Prior to public schools being available, wealthy families would often do this for their children's education if there were no private schools nearby.
What is hiring a tutor?
This early abolitionist organizer started the antislavery newspaper The Liberator, as well as the New England Antislavery Society.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
Susan B. Anthony was arrested and fined $100 for doing this in 1872.
What is voting illegally in the presidential election?
The positive message that fueled the Second Great Awakening.
What is the idea that doing good things can allow someone to be forgiven for their sins?
Dorthea Dix discovered that there were thousands of Americans in jail for debt, even though most of them owed this amount or less.
What is 20 dollars?
The first woman to become a medical doctor in the US. She went on to open the first medical school to allow women.
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?
An antislavery convention held in this city in 1840 would unintentionally help create the Women's Rights Movement.
What is London, England?
The year that the 19th Amendment was passed, finally giving women the right to vote.
What is 1920?