A revival of religious feeling and belief from the 1800's - 1840's.
What is The Second Great Awakening
100
This woman found prisoners bound in chains, locked in cages, and children with adults when she went to teach SUnday School in the jail.
Who is Dorthea Dix?
100
to make changes in order to bring about improvement, end abuses, or correct injustices.
What is reform
100
This man started an abolitionist newspaper called The Liberator
Who is William Lloyd Garrison
100
unequal treatment based on a person's race, gender, religion, place of birth, or other arbitrary characteristic.
What is discrimination
200
Because of this event, people wanted to do good things to please God and go to heaven.
What is The Second Great Awakening
200
These institutions were insufficient for the needs of the mentally ill.
What is mental hospitals
200
The leader of the Education Reform movement of the 1800's
Who is Horace Mann
200
This man spoke out publicly about the treatment of slaves, and even wrote an autobiography telling his own story as a slave.
Who is Frederick Douglas
200
She started the first medical school for women.
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell
300
A philiosophy in which people try to reach beyond logic to achieve true understanding wit the help of emotions and intuition.
What is Transcendentalism.
300
These people were treated as criminals even though they were disabled.
What is the mentally ill
300
This state voted to pay taxes to build better schools, pay teachers higher salaries, and establish training schools for teachers.
What is Massachusetts
300
These sisters became Quakers and then spoke to men and women in big groups about the treatment of slaves and the need for abolition.
Who are Angelina and Sarah Grinke
300
This event, which happened in NY state, was the birth of the women's movement in America
What is the Seneca Falls Convention
400
These famous authors both associated themselves with the transcendentalist movement.
Who are Emerson and Thoreau
400
After the reform movement, state governments stopped putting these people in prison because they owed money.
What is debtors
400
the social separation of groups of people, especially by race.
What is segregation
400
The belief that one race is superior to another
What is racism
400
This document listed the grievances women had against men. It was patterned after the Declaration of Independence.
What is The Declaration of Sentiments
500
In 1841 this community near Boston experimented with the creation of an "ideal society." The people who lived there shared everything in common and practiced good will.
What is Brook Farm
500
A person who supported the ending of slavery
Who is an abolitionist
500
True or False - by 1850, most white boys went to public school
what is true
500
She spoke and preached about her life as a slave and she was a big help to Garrison and Douglas.