Women's Rights
What could women not do?
vote, own houses, go to college, hold jobs
What is Temperance?
Alcoholism
How many weeks of school did they have per year?
10-12 weeks
What is a penitentiary?
prisons used for housing prisoners as punishment and rehabilitation
What is an abolitionist?
were people who wanted to end slavery regardless of this economic dependence
Could women work out of their homes (could they sell products out of their houses)
Yes
What caused the Temperance Movement?
Men were drinking too much then going home and abusing their wives and kids
Did they charge a fee for school?
Yes
Reformers fought that society would benefit from what?
from rehabilitating prisoners than punishing them
Who began to publish an abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
Who were Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Stanton
writers of the document presented at the Seneca Falls convention
Who led the Temperance Unions?
Housewives/Women, Churches, Religious Groups
Who pushed for public schools because they equalized society?
Horace Mann
Where were mentally ill people kept before asylums?
at home or imprisoned
Who grew up on a plantation but believed slavery was immoral
Grimke Sisters (Sarah and Angelina)
Were women allowed to vote after the Seneca falls convention?
No, not until 1920
What did propaganda for the movement focus on?
Suffering wives and children
What did Horace Mann say about being poor and education?
He argued that it was impossible that educated people could remain permanently poor
Who led the mentally ill movement?
Dorothea Dix
Who was one of the most famous conductors on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
What was the name of the convention that women fought for their rights in?
Seneca Falls Convention
What was the quote on the picture in the slide? 'lips that touch ---- shall not touch ours'?
Liquor
What did public schools lack?
Funding: for books, teacher pay, supplies, and other equipment
How many hospitals were built because of this movement?
32
Who became a lecturer for the Mass. Anti-Slavery Society, and who fled her owners and lived with Quakers who set her free
Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth