reform that pursued to extinguish slavery in the United States
What is the Abolitionism Reform?
100
1831
When was the anti-slavery newspaper THE LIBERATOR started?
100
Massachusetts schoolteacher who campaigned for pubicly funded asylums
Who is Dorothea Dix?
100
challenged Americans to improve themselves and their communities
What did reform movements do?
200
Feminists and women's rights advocate;organized Seneca Falls Convention
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
200
campagins againsts prisons and their horrible conditions
What is the Prison Refrom?
200
1837
When was Mount Holyoke Seminary, the first college for women started?
200
also crusaded for education but believed that teachers should be women
Who is Catherine Beecher?
200
sought to eradicate slavery in the US
What did the abolitionists movement do?
300
Freed slave who was a leader in the abolitionist movement
Who is Federick Douglass?
300
movement to help the "mentally ill" so they were not thrown into prisons. Created asylums especially for the mentally ill.
What is the Reform for the mentally ill?
300
1848
When was Seneca Fall Convention organized?
300
Ablitionism Movement
What movement was William Loyld Garrison invovled in?
300
prison where people would be sent if they could not pay back an amount of money borrowed
What is Debtors prison?
400
Radical aboltionist; published magazine "THE LIBERATOR"
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
400
sought to expand the public education, cities saw that education was necessary to keep a democracy.
What is the Education Reform?
400
1843
When did Dorthea Dix crusade for prison and insane asylum to help the mentally ill?
400
Women's Suffrage
What movement was Susan B. Anthony invovled in?
400
womens legal rights
What is women's suffrage?
500
Public Education advocate; pushed for education reforms in Massachusetts
Who is Horace Mann?
500
Women demanded political rights, especially right to vote.
What is Women's Suffrage?
500
1833
When did Garrison and Theodore Weld find the American Anti-Slavery Society?
500
Educational Reform
What movement is Horace Mann in?
500
Women dominated most reform movements, generally centered in the north, differences contibuted to the tension between North and South during the pre-civil war years.