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Prison Reform
Mentally Ill
Fighting Slavery
Women's Rights
Public Education
100

Woman who dedicated her life to improving conditions for prisoners and the mentally ill

Who is Dorothea Dix

100

As a result of this reform, many states outlawed...

What are cruel punishments 

100

Someone who was in favor of ending slavery

What is an abolitionist

100

Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized this

What is the Seneca Falls Convention (1848)

100

The father of public education

Who is Horace Mann

200

Prisoners were often times locked in

What is cages/chains
200

These were created to treat and give proper care to the mentally ill

What are mental health facilities

200
A former slave who gave speeches against slavery and in favor of women's rights

Who is Sojourner Truth

200

Men controlled their wives...

What is money and property
200
Before education reform, schools were often part time and held in

What is a single room

300

Individuals who were imprisoned for owing money, sometimes as little as $20 

What are debtors

300

Someone who works to correct failings or injustices

What is a reformer

300

Spoke out about freeing all slaves and has the newspaper The Liberator

Who is William Lloyd Garrison

300

The Declaration of Sentiments state...

What is that all men and women are created equal

300

Before education reform, teachers received 

What is little education and/or pay

400

Dorothea Dix was exposed and horrified at prison conditions when she...

What is taught Sunday school at a jail

400

Children, adults, and who else were locked away in crowded prisons?

Who are the mentally ill

400

A leader in the abolitionist movement who started the newspaper, the North Star

Who is Frederick Douglass

400
Two individuals who supported both abolition as well as women's rights

Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass

400

Horace Mann wanted to increase educational opportunity for everyone, but especially for

Who are women and African Americans

500

Special justice systems were created for...

What/who are children

500

Journalist who checked herself into an insane asylum to report on conditions and treatment

Who is Nellie Bly

500

Three ways in which abolitionists (and other reformers) could inform people on what they were advocating for

What are public speaking, newspapers, and pamphlets or brochures
500

After being denied by 29 med schools and finally being accepted to 1, this individual went on to open her own hospital and med school 

Who is Elizabeth Blackwell

500

By 1850 in many states, who attended free public schools

Who are (white) boys