Slavery
How did slaves become slaves in the South?
people were kidnapped from the continent of Africa, forced into slavery in the American colonies and exploited to work as indentured servants.
what were the most popular form of Revival Meetings?
Camp meetings
How was Elizabeth Blackwell a help to women's rights?
She helped establish medical training for women.
What did Fredrick teach himself?
How to read
what is prohibition?
a nationwide ban on the sale and import of alcoholic beverages that lasted from 1920 to 1933.
one slave could do the work of how many?
50 people
Dorothea Dix fought to have __ who?__ removed from prisons?
Mentally ill people
What did Amelia Bloomer do?
She published the lily advocating equality for women
who made Fredrick Douglass become successful in his abolishment?
William L. Garrison
Where did most Americans receive education?
Puritan Massachusetts
What percentage of slaves couldn't read or write?
80%
what was drinking alcohol in moderation called?
Temprance
Who is prudence Crandall?
She founded school for girls and began teaching African Americans
What did president Monroe help with?
by land that will become the country Liberia
What the definition of Temperance?
restraint
Why weren't slaves granted rights?
because they were dependent on their masters who told them how they should live.
Who was the 1st licensed female doctor?
Eliz. Blackwell
What did Sarah and Angelina Grimke do?
Argued that God make women and men equal
who was Lloyd Garrison?
America's most outspoken white abolitionist
what were some reasons people chose to help?
seeing there suffering, there religious beliefs
what were 2 ways a person was legally viewed as a slave?
they were a child of a slave , not Christian originally
The organized attempt to improve what is unjust in society was?
Social Reform
How did Lucretia Mott help women?
help found American Anti-slavery society
How did African Americans try to stop slavery?
lawsuits, and antislavery newspapers
who was Horace Mann
American educational reformer, slavery abolitionist and Whig politician known for his commitment to promoting public education