Reform
The idea that God decides the fate of a person's soul even before birth
Predestination
The right of women to vote
Women’s Suffrage
How did Frederick Douglass fight for the rights of enslaved African American people? What role did he play?
Learned to read, escaped to freedom in the North and described his experiences at antislavery rallies.
What is a school supported by taxes called?
Public School
Define Free Will
Your own actions determine your salvation
How did Dorthea Dix work on prison reform?
Went into American prisons and observed that most people that were there were either mentally ill or owed debts - most were not violent crimes. Dix promoted the creation of asylums for those that needed mental health, instead of putting them into prisons.
Organized effort to end alcohol abuse and the problems created by it
Temperance Movement
How did Harriet Tubman fight for the rights of enslaved African Americans?
Escaped from slavery and escorted more than 300 people to freedom
What is the Second Great Awakening?
Ministers challenge traditional ways of the church, they preached at revivals to encourage people to change their beliefs and reform their lives
Name some topics American painters in the mid- 1800's chose to portray in their art.
Nature, Hudson River Valley, Romanticism, Everyday Life, Great rivers, Native American life
Who is Elizabeth Cady Staton?
Abolitionist and suffragette - worked for 50 + years to help women gain more rights in the United States
A person who wanted to end slavery
Abolitionist
Who was heavily involved in prison reform and helped with the creation of asylums for the mentally ill?
Dorthea Dix
What is the underground railroad?
Network of people that helped enslaved people escape
Who was Ralph Waldo Emerson?
Leading transcendentalist (a movement that sought to explore the relationship between humans and nature through emotions rather than through reason)
What happened at Seneca Falls?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott (antislavery rally) - they weren’t allowed in because they were women.
Organized attempts to improve conditions of life
Social Reform
Who was Horace Mann?
Education reformer
What rights did women not have in the early 1800s?
EARLY 1800s: Vote, serve on juries, attend college or practice law or medicine, own land if married
What is a Utopia?
An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect
Explain what the Declaration of Sentiments is
The declaration listed injustices women suffered such as being shut out from educational opportunities and good jobs. Also demanded full equality for women in every area of life.
Idea based on nonviolence that people have a right to disobey a law they consider unjust, if their consciences demand it
Civil Disobedience
What did Horace Mann do to help reform society?
Encouraged colleges to create programs to train teachers, raised the salaries of teachers and lengthened the school year
What COULD women do by the mid-1800s?
MID 1800s: Were accepted into math and science education programs, could be journalists, scholars and astronomers
Why was Henry David Thoreau important to the Age of Reform?
Believed that individuals must judge right and wrong for themselves. He encouraged civil disobedience