Social Reform
This wave of religious fervor dominated the early 1800s in the United States.
The Second Great Awakening.
This group of people fought to end slavery in the United States.
Abolitionists.
This convention took place in July of 1848.
The Seneca Falls Convention.
This person started the public school system as we know it today.
Horace Mann.
Abstinence from alcoholic drink.
Temperance
Religious camp meetings on the frontier that saw the presence of great speakers and preachers of the era.
Revivals.
A system of safe houses and anti slavery sympathizers.
The Underground Railroad
The name for the fight for the right to vote.
Sufferage.
The troubles of the early public school system
Teachers were under trained, under payed and over worked. Most of the kids couldn't even afford school.
Religious camp meetings on the frontier that saw the presence of great speakers and preachers of the era.
Revivals.
This Connecticut minister was a crusader against the production, distribution and consumption of alcohol.
Lyman Beecher.
The most famous conductorfor the underground railroad.
Harriet Tubman.
The types of reforms of the Women's movement.
Women's right, temperance, suffrage, equal pay, college training for girls, and coeducation.
These colleges eventually allowed the admission of women and African Americans. (Give college names and years only.)
Amherst and Holy Cross between 1820 and 1850
This group of people fought to end slavery in the United States.
Abolitionists.
This Northern state was home to one of the first laws banning the manufacture and sale of alcohol.
Maine.
This society was formed to buy black slaves and send them to a country in Africa.
The American Colonization Society.
These were the changes in law and government that took place due to this movement.
They gained the right to vote, right to an education, right to divorce, the right to abortions, etc.
The 3 main reforms and people to help with hearing, vision, and special needs education. (Match the name with the correct reform.)
Thomas Gallaudet- Hearing.
Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe- Vision.
Dorothea Dix- Special Education.
A system of safe houses and anti slavery sympathizers.
Underground Railroad.
The temperance movement of the mid 1850s lost steam after several years the movement was revived however and led to the passage of this amendment in 1917.
The 18th Amendment.
Southerners' excuses to try and justify slavery and thwart the abolitionist movement.
Claimed that slavery was essential to the south. Slavery and labor, they said, had allowed southern whites to reach a high level of culture.
The way the women's movement connected with other social movements.
They all had the same goal, equality.
Early school houses were run by under trained teachers, this school came about to train teachers.
Normal school.
The right to vote in political elections.
Sufferage.