Education
Abolitionist
Women's Rights
Other Game Changers
100
What was a result of Thomas Gallaudet’s contribution to education?
free American schools for the deaf and those with hearing-impairments
100
What did Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth have in common?
They were both former slaves who contributed to the abolitionist cause.
100
What was the main idea of Sojourner Truth’s speech given at a women’s rights convention in 1851? “That man over here says that women need to be helped into carriages and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place . . . Look at me! I have ploughed and planted and . . . no man could head [outwork] me. And ain’t I a woman?”
Women should not be thought of as the weaker sex and they deserve equality.
100
What inspired the temperance movement to begin in the 1830s?
Countless Americans blamed alcohol abuse for social problems such as crime.
200
Why were many African American schools established in Philadelphia in the mid-1800s?
As a center of Quaker influence, Philadelphia strongly supported the education of African American children.
200
What was Angelina and Sarah Grimké’s contribution to the abolitionist movement?
writing to attract other white southern women to the effort to abolish slavery
200
Why did Sarah Grimké decide never to get married?
Laws of the day gave husbands complete control over his wife’s property.
200
In general, in which direction did Underground Railroad routes travel?
North
300
What were Josiah Quincy's contribution to prison reform?
Separate facilities and training for minors
300
What did William Lloyd Garrison have in common with the Grimke sisters
Both white abolitionists supporting the oppressed race
300
What was the significance of the Seneca Falls Convention?
First public meeting about women's rights in the US
300
What was the main reason emancipation almost impossible in the South in the early 1800s?
the South’s economic dependence on slavery
400
What were Catherine Beecher's contributions in education reform?
started an all female academy
400
How did Garrison attempt to spread the antislavery message in the United States?
American Anti-Slavery Society and his abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator"
400
What right did Susan B. Anthony win for women in New York in 1860?
control of their own wages and property
400
What did reformer Dorothea Dix do to contribute to the prison reform movement in the early 1800s?
spoke of the horrid conditions of prisons and inspired the building of separate facilities for the mentally ill
500
How did Horace Mann influence the American education system? (4 ways)
Extending school year, started teacher training, increased school budget and teacher salaries, founded the common school movement
500
Explain how did the federal government attempt to hinder the efforts of abolitionists in the United States
The Gag Rule, it forbade members of Congress from discussing anti-slavery petitions.
500
What argument did some women make against the movement for equal rights?
Women and men were different rather than unequal.
500
What did the federal government do to block the abolition movement’s progress between 1836 and 1844?
issued a gag rule preventing the Congress from discussing antislavery petitions
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