Vocab
temperance
drinking little or no alcohol
civil disobedience
not following laws considered unjust
Louis Braille
Invented "braille" to help the blind read.
What gains did women start to make in the mid-1800s?
They could own property, initiate divorce, and have guardianship over their children
Horace Mann
American educational reformer, slavery abolitionist
revival
religious meeting
abolitionist
a person who favors the abolition of slavery
Sojourner Truth
American abolitionist and a women's rights activist.
What approach did the early abolition movement take? How effective was it?
It was let alone, hoping that it would take care of itself. This was not effective. The cotton gin skyrocketed slavery.
Lyman Beecher
Helped the temperance movement
utopia
community based on a perfect view of society
suffrage
the right to vote in political elections
Frederick Douglass
American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, and writer. He was a very good public speaker.
How did the women’s right movement begin?
At the Seneca Falls Convention is New York
Thomas Galludet
Helped those with hearing disabilities
normal school
state-funded school that teaches graduates to become teachers
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lead the Seneca Falls Convention and was a leader of the women rights movement
Henry David Thoreau
Practiced civil disobedience
How did the abolition movement change over time?
The abolition movement took on women's rights as part of the movement.
What were conditions like for women before the movement began?
Women could not vote, own property, initiate divorce, run for office, or sign any legal documents.
coeducation
the education of both men and women students together.
Dorthea Dix
Helped the imprisoned and the mentally ill
William Lloyd Garrison
American abolitionist, journalist and social reformer. He is best known for his widely read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator,
Why did some Northerners and Southerners oppose abolition?
North-could lead to war, would not blend with society
South-better off in the sun than a factory, treated well
Both not true
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement