Abolition
Women's Rights
Education
Religion
Potpourri
100
The name of the secret network of safe routes and houses that slaves traveled along in order to reach freedom safely.
What was the Underground Railroad?
100
Convention held in New York which brought attention to the women's rights movement during the antebellum period in the U.S.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
100
He created the first ever "normal" school.
Who was Horace Mann?
100
Religious movement / revival during the antebellum period which influenced the reform movements of the era.
What was the Second Great Awakening?
100
Wife of John Adams and mother of John Quincy Adams, which could be argued was ahead of her time in regards to her viewpoint on women's rights.
Who was Abigail Adams?
200
Abolitionist leader who created the abolitionist newspaper, "The Liberator."
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
200
Document which the "Declaration of Sentiments" from the Seneca Falls Convention was based on.
What was the Declaration of Independence?
200
The first "normal" school in the U.S.
What is Framingham State University?
200
They reject the idea that Jesus was the son of God, arguing instead that he was a great teacher.
Who are the Unitarians?
200
Home to America's first tax supported free public school.
Where is Dedham?
300
Prominent Southern woman who moved to the North in order to join the abolitionist cause, and eventually married Theodore Weld.
Who was Angelina Grimke?
300
African-American woman who was part of both the abolitionist and women's rights movements.
Who was Sojourner Truth?
300
The father of American Scholarship and Education.
Who was Noah Webster?
300
They reject the idea of hell and believe God intends to save everyone.
Who are the Universalists?
300
The major reason why 2 million Irish people immigrated to the U.S. during the antebellum period.
What was the potato famine?
400
The abolitionist society started by William Lloyd Garrison.
What was the American Anti-Slavery Society?
400
Co-founded the Hartford Female Seminary which taught women content originally intended for men.
Who was Catherine Beecher?
400
Schools which are open to all and are supported by district taxes, state funds, and tuition paid by parents.
What is a district, or "common," school?
400
The text translated by Joseph Smith which he claimed was originally transcribed on golden plates, and given to him by angels.
What is the Book of Mormon?
400
Hostility toward foreigners.
What is nativism?
500
The name of Frederick Douglass' abolitionist newspaper.
What was "The North Star"?
500
Opened the 1st school that enabled women to seek higher education.
Who was Emma Willard?
500
Organization created by the bill which Horace Mann backed while part of the MA Senate.
What was the (MA) State Board of Education?
500
The Second Great Awakening preacher who led the charge in the claim that all people could attain grace through faith.
Who was Charles Grandison Finney?
500
Political party in which membership was kept secret, requiring members to claim that they "knew nothing."
What was the American Party (Know-Nothings)?
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