Definitions
Define Reform
To make a change to make improvements, end abuses, correct injustices
Who was the mother of prison reform
Dorthea Dix
Who is the father of current public education
Horace Mann
What is an Abolitionist?
Person who worked to end slavery
How were white women treated?
like slaves, property and servents
Second Great Awakening
A change in religious belief where people started interpreting the bible rather than just reading it word for word.
Two things Dorthea Dix did for Prisoner reform
Paid Prisoner Debt
Educated Prisoners
Why were the first public schools created
To get children off the streets where they were stealing and causing destruction to private property.
What did Congress do in 1808
Passed a law to end the Atlantic Slave trade
What was the name of the meeting that Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Stanton held?
Seneca Falls Convention
Transcendentalism
People using a combination of logic and emotion in thought to make decisions
Other than prison reform, what else did Dorthea Dix reform
Mental Illness
How was the money raised to build the first public school.
Raised taxes
What was the South producing that the North needed for money.
Cotton
Why did Lucy Stone refuse to write a speech for her college graduation?
She would have to allow a man to read it. Was not allowed to speak in public.
Individualism
To act on one's own beliefs
What did Dorthea Dix say about Mental Health
People needed treatment and care, not punishment
What was the first college to accept women.
Oberlin College
What was the name of the newspaper that Lloyd Garrison created
The Liberator
What document stated that "all men and women are created equal."
Declaration of Sentiments or Women's Declaration of Independence.
Model Communities
A group of people with similar beliefs that created their own community
Describe a jail before Dorthea Dix
People chained to walls and often beaten as punishment. Hard for people to get out due to not being able to pay debts.
Who accepted the first African American girl into a public school.
Prudence Crandell
What was Frederick Douglas' book so important?
Made the abuses of slavery real for Northern Whites.
List three rights that women did not have in the early 1800s that men had?
Own Property
Have money