An Era of Reform
New religious movements played a key role in inspiring thousands of Americans to try to reform society.
What is the spirit of reform?
Jagged coast lines, bays, harbors and mountain ranges.
What is geography in the North?
Rough cabin, barely any food and crowded cabins.
What is living conditions of slaves in the 1800?
Unequal treatment based on a person’s race, gender, religion, place of birth, or other characteristic.
What is discrimination?
Led a rebellion of enslaved people that took place in Virginia in 1831.
What is Nat turner?
Create public asylums for those with mental illnesses.
What is prison reform?
Mild winters and long, hot summers.
What is weather in the South?
Pick cotton, carry water, split wood, feed pigs, shuck corn.
What is working conditions as a slave in the 1800s?
A person who supported abolition, or the ending of slavery.
What is abolitionist?
Guided people though under ground railroad in 1850 to 1860.
What is Harriet Tubman?
The effort to make education available to more children in the 1800s.
What is education reform?
Machines is the main way they made money in the 1800s.
What is economy in the North?
Dancing, singing, making music, and spirituals.
What is African American culture?
The clearing away of forests.
What is deforestation?
Visited hundreds of jails and prisons throughout Massachusetts in 1841.
What is Dorothea Dix?
Abolitionists talking and passing laws to make it fair for everyone in the 1800s.
What is the movement to end slavery?
Road, Fast ships, canals and trains.
What is transportation in the North?
Faced punishments like whippings, beatings, and branding.
What is controlling slaves?
Someone who works to make change in order to bring about improvement, end abuses, or correct injustice.
What is reformer?
Became a leader in the abolitionist movement after he escaped from slavery.
What is Frederick Douglass?
A organized movement to make equal treatment for each gender in the 1800s.
What is equal rights for women?
Thought slavery was normal
What is slavery in the South?
Mother and father figure,no marriage and no uncontrolled birth.
What is slaves family?
Unfriendly or angry feelings or behavior.
What is hostility?
Worked together in the campaign for women’s rights in the 1800s.
What is Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?