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The Spirit of Reform / Vocabulary
Reforms and Reformers
Women's Rights
The North
The South
100
What was the goal of abolitionists?
What is to end slavery.
100
Which reform movement was Horace Mann a part of?
What is education.
100
Who helped Lucretia Mott organize the convention at Seneca Falls?
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
100
Why did immigrants move to the North? Bonus Point: What two countries did the majority of immigrants come from? Bonus Point: What were the reasons that people were moving from these countries?
What is that jobs were available in the mills and factories. Bonus Point: What is Ireland and Germany. Bonus Point: What is a potato famine and a failed revolution.
100
What is the type of lifestyle that favors farming called?
What is agrarian.
200
What was the Second Great Awakening? Bonus Point: When did it take place?
What is a revival of religious feeling and belief in the 1820s and 1830s.
200
What was education like before Horace Mann and what is an influence from this movement that we still see today?
What is most children did not attend school (only the wealthy) or there were many children cramped into a one-room schoolhouse. We still have public education.
200
Name three social reform topics that Lucretia Mott spoke on.
What is abolition, women's rights, temperance, and world peace.
200
How were goods transported in the North?
What is by railroad.
200
How were most goods transported in the South?
What is by river.
300
What is transcendentalism?
What is a philosophy which taught that people should "transcend" (go beyond) logical thinking to reach true understanding with the help of emotion and intuition.
300
What were conditions like before Horace Mann's reform movement?
What is that most children did not attend school, only wealthy families could send their children to school or they had a private tutor, and there were many children cramped into a one-room schoolhouse.
300
Who was one of the first professional women journalists in America?
Who is Margaret Fuller.
300
What are two reasons (focusing on geography and/or climate) that made farming more difficult in the North?
Answers will vary. Example: What is varied climates, rough rivers, hills, and less rain.
300
Who were the South's political leaders?
Who are wealthy planters and plantation owners.
400
What was a major influence of the Second Great Awakening?
What is that people were inspired to improve society.
400
What was the name of the newspaper that William Lloyd Garrison wrote? What was the name of the movement that he was a part of? Bonus Point: Which leader of the same movement started a newspaper called North Star?
What is the Liberator. The movement was called the abolitionist movement. Who is Frederick Douglass.
400
Who was arrested and fined $100 for trying to vote and traveled from town to town speaking for women's rights?
Who is Susan B. Anthony.
400
How did the Industrial Revolution begin? Bonus Point: When did the Industrial Revolution begin in America? Bonus Point: Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?
What is with a shift from handmade to machine-made goods. Bonus Point: What is the late 1700s. Bonus Point: What is England.
400
What are three results of the cotton gin being invented.
What is the possibility of farms being larger, land being ruined to build farms, fertile soil becoming scarce, slavery increasing, and cotton becoming the South's main crop.
500
What were two major influences of transcendentalism?
What is people built model communities like Brook Farm, many people still debate and try to go beyond traditional thinking, and many inventions and scientific advances.
500
What are three influences of Dorothea Dix's reform movement?
What is that the mentally insane are now in mental hospitals, debtors are not in prison, there is a juvenile court system, and people aren't being branded.
500
What was the name of the group that was committed to African-American and woman suffrage that Lucretia Mott became the first president of?
What is the Equal Rights Association.
500
What are three things that free African Americans living in the North couldn't do?
What is vote, hold office, serve on juries, or attend white churches and schools.
500
What are two things that free African Americans living in the South had to do and what jobs did they normally hold?
What is they had to wear special badges, pay extra taxes, and live separately from whites. They lived in towns and cities as skilled craftspeople, servants, or laborers.