Era of Reform
someone who spends time and effort trying to make society better.
What is a reformer?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.
Who organized the first women’s rights convention?
A formerly enslaved woman who spoke out for women’s rights and the abolition of slavery.
Who was Sojourner Truth?
They believed slavery was immoral and against their religious beliefs.
Why did Quakers oppose slavery?
A secret network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom in the North or Canada.
What was the Underground Railroad?
A religious movement that inspired people to speak out and work for social reform.
What was the Second Great Awakening?
The first women’s rights convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
They challenged the idea that women were weaker or less capable than men.
What was important about Sojourner Truth’s speeches?
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
An abolitionist who published anti-slavery messages in his newspaper The Liberator.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
A former enslaved woman who helped over 300 people escape using the Underground Railroad.
Slavery, women’s rights, public education, and prison/mental health reform.
four social issues reformers worked to improve.
The Declaration of Sentiments.
What document did Stanton write for Seneca Falls?
The first American woman to give a public speech.
Who was Lucy Stone?
A formerly enslaved man who escaped, became an abolitionist, and gave powerful speeches.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
A leader of the education reform movement.
Who was Horace Mann?
Women were expected to be seen and not heard, and their place was believed to be in the home.
How were women expected to behave in the early 1800s?
The right to vote.
What does suffrage mean?
Who was Elizabeth Blackwell?
The first woman to graduate from a medical college.
What did Frederick Douglass believe about the Constitution?
He believed it did not allow people to be enslaved.
A movement to reduce or eliminate alcohol consumption.
What was the temperance movement?
The right to vote, speak publicly, attend college, and own property.
What rights were women denied in the mid-1800s?
A women’s rights leader who gave speeches and was arrested for voting.
Who was Susan B. Anthony?
The 19th Amendment.
What amendment gave women the right to vote?
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote it to show the cruelty of slavery and call for its end.
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin and why?
She saw mentally ill people being kept in prisons instead of receiving care.
Why did Dorothea Dix fight for mental health reform?