Vocabulary
First Reforms
Slavery & Abolition
Women in Reform
Labor Reform
100
What is a reform movement?
Work to change society for the better
100
This reformer called for improvements in the prison and asylum systems.
Dorothea Dix
100
What is the last name of the sisters who worked to end slavery?
Grimké
100
The temperance movement intended to ban:
Alcohol
100
Most workers in New England mills were:
Young women (single)
200
This term refers to the freeing of slaves.
Emancipation
200
This religious revival was the spark that led to all other reforms in the early-mid 1800s.
The Second Great Awakening
200
In antebellum America, where did most African Americans live and what did they do?
In the south (on plantations) working in fields
200
Name 2 of the 4 areas of American society in which women were most active (minus women’s rights).
Abolition, temperance, education, health
200
What is a strike?
A work stoppage in order to force the employer to respond to worker demands
300
This term refers to the time period before the civil war.
Antebellum
300
Transcendentalism emphasized self-reliance and freedom of thought. One way to do this is to ignore laws that seemed unjust. This practice is called:
Civil disobedience
300
What did William Lloyd Garrison call for?
Immediate emancipation of slaves (with no payment to slaveholders)
300
What was the name of the convention on women’s rights in 1848?
Seneca Falls Convention
300
Name one complaint that a “mill girl” might have had about the working conditions in New England mills.
Low wages, long hours, hot, dark, poor ventilation
400
What did the cult of domesticity refer to?
The traditional idea that a woman’s place was in the home doing housework/child-rearing
400
Name one of the reforms Horace Mann influenced in education.
More taxpayer money in public schools, mandatory attendance, curriculum standardization, teacher-training programs
400
What was the response to Nat Turner’s Rebellion in Virginia?
Tighter restrictions on free blacks and slaves (slave/black codes)
400
Name one complaint listed in the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments.
Many…
400
From which 2 countries were more immigrants before the 1860s?
Germany and Ireland
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