The Spirit of Reform
This was a revival of religious feeling and belief from the 1800s to the 1840s.
WHat is the Second Great Awakening?
What was the first group of people to fight slavery?
Abolitionists.
This woman led the prison reform after teaching school at a jail.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
Name three problems women faced while they were speaking out against slavery.
- women could not vote or hold office
- men in their lives controlled their money and property
- their husbands disciplined them however they wanted
This man led the education reform movement.
Who is Horace Mann?
This word means to know or understand based on feeling and not facts. Another term for this word could be your "gut feeling"
What is intuition?
Congress passed a law that ended this overseas trading act that supported slavery.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
This group of people imprisoned were also in jail with adult criminals.
Who are children accused of minor thefts?
These women ran the first women's rights meeting.
Who is Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott?
Name three things poor children did when they were not in school.
What is stealing, destroying property, and setting fires?
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a central figure in this movement that called people to go beyond logical thinking to reach true understanding.
What is transcendentalism?
This person created an anti-slavery newspaper named the Liberator.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This group of people were in dirty, crowded cells and were whipped in they misbehaved.
Who are the mentally ill?
This document was written by women that can be compared to the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
These two groups were not permitted in schools.
Who are girls and African-American people.
This person was jailed overnight for refusing to pay taxes to aid in the Mexican-American War and lived in solitude for two years. He also coined the term "individualism."
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
This man sold an autobiography of himself and started his own newspaper named the "North Star."
Who is Frederick Douglass?
After Dorothea DIx's speech, these buildings were built for the mentally ill.
What are asylums?
These states gave women control over their property and wages and more liberal divorce laws.
What is New York, Massachusetts, and Indiana?
What did Horace Mann believe every child should do and why?
Go to school because he thought it would improve society.
This was one of the many model communities in the 1800s that provided benefits such as farming, teaching, and making clothes.
What is Brook Farm?
This woman spoke out against slavery and was confronted by a mob who threw stones at her.
Who is Angelina Grimke?
Name the three things that happened after Dorothea Dix died in 1887.
- State governments no longer put debtors in prison
- branding people in prisons was outlawed
- children in trouble had special justice systems
What convention did Susan B. Anthony make and when?
The Falls Convention in Seneca Falls, NY in 1848.
This college was the first in the nation to admit both men and women in college.
What was Oberlin College?