Women's Rights
What is the Document signed in 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention
Declaration of Sentiments
What does Temperance mean?
temperance or total abstinence from consumption of alcoholic beverages.
The Declaration of Sentiments is based on what American Document?
Declaration of Independence
What does Abolitionism mean?
End Slavery
What type of school was the most common before Reform?
Private school
What were Women prevented from doing before the Reform movement
Voting, Owning Property, Getting paid wages, Education.
Temperance reformers argued that alcohol was a major cause of this problem, where a family could not pay rent or buy food because the father drank away his wages.
Poverty
Why were mostly Women joining the Temperance movement
Some abolitionists refused to buy any products made by enslaved people, what is this called
A boycott
Women, poor people, and people of color.
What does Sufferage mean?
Right to Vote
What would women in the Temperance movement do at taverns to prevent people from drinking?
Attack them with Hatchets
What was the Religious awakening that lead to the rise of the Reform Movement?
Second Great Awakening
What was the secret network of people who helped enslaved individuals escape to free states and Canada?
the Underground Railroad
What are schools that are funded by the government and open to everyone?
Public Schools
The seneca Falls Convention and released document was important because...
supported the idea of equal rights for women
In the 1800s, some doctors gave alcohol as medicine for illnesses like fevers or pain. Temperance reformers argued that this was a bad idea because it could lead to what?
Addiction/ alcoholism
What lead to the explosion of Slavery in the South
The cotton gin
Who was the crazy old man that tried to take over Virginia?
John Brown
Why were tests so difficult before the Reform movement?
To keep students in school so their familes pay more money/ only allow the "best of the best" to pass.
What does the 19th Amendment do?
Guarantees Women's right to vote
What did temperance reformers claim will happen if you drink?
Die
How did Manifest Destiny lead to the Second Great Awakening?
Americans had to look inward when there was no more land out west.
Law that mandated every citizen to aid in the return of escaped Slaves
Fugative Slave Act 1850
what was the Name of the "The Father of American Education" who created American public schools?
Horace Mann