Abolition
True or False: Slave owners did not want slaves to attend church because they were afraid the slaves would use religion to justify freedom.
TRUE
What did the Temperance Movement advocate for?
To stop the drinking and distribution of alcohol.
In addition to fighting for equality, many women were known to be activists for _________ & ___________.
Abolition, Temperance
What was the forerunner of American’s unions today?
National Trades Union
Where did the Second Great Awakening Take Place?
America
Who was a freed slave that was both an abolitionist AND a woman's rights activist?
Sojourner Truth
Which abolitionist said this?
“The man who would not fight . . . ought to be kept with all of his children or family, in slavery, or in chains, to be butchered by his cruel enemies.”
David Walker (advocated for abolition through violence)
What is the Cult of Domesticity?
Women staying home and taking care of the house/kids.
What are steps in the artisans ladder of positions?
Apprentice, Journeyman, Master
This was a way to recruit new members to the church.
Revivals
This person was born into slavery, used education to promote emancipation, wrote “North Star”, Lecturer for Anti-Slavery Society
Frederick Douglass
"There is no reform in which woman can act better or more appropriately than temperance. . . . Its effects fall so crushingly upon her . . . she has so often seen its slow, insidious, but not the less surely fatal advances, gaining upon its victim. . . . Oh! the misery, the utter, hopeless misery of the drunkard’s wife!” -quote from Women’s America: Refocusing the Past
Which reform is this referring to?
Temperance
What is the biggest (and first) convention held in regards to women’s rights?
Seneca Falls Convention
When workers unite and decide to stop working to stop production in order to get the owners to meet their demands is called?
Strike
This person led the transcendentalism movement.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Radical white abolitionist, Published "The Liberator", Founded Anti-Slavery Society, promoted immediate emancipation w/o payment to slave holders
William Lloyd Garrison
Which male abolitionist stated, "After battling so many long years for the liberties of African slaves, I can take no part in a convention that strikes down the most sacred rights of all women.” after woman were denied entry at the Anti-Slavery Convention?
William Lloyd Garrison
In the Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1838), a woman who knew “chemistry enough to keep the pot boiling, and geography enough to know the location of the different rooms in her house,” was considered learned enough.
Which female abolitionist complained about this viewpoint?
Angelina Grimke
This group of people worked most of the jobs in factories in the North?
Immigrants.
TRANSCENDENALISM creates reforms through .....
....yourself.
What was the name of Frederick Douglass' newspaper? What did it symbolize? How did he feel that abolition should be obtained?
The North Star - symbolic of the "Path to Freedom" as Runaway Slaves would use the North Star to guide them to Freedom in the North. Advocated for abolition through Legislation
Who gave this power speech at a women's rights convention in 1851? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain’t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man—when I could get it—and bear the lash as well! And ain’t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a woman?”
Sojourner Truth
What was the Seneca Falls Convention? Who led it? What was its effect?
The Seneca Falls Convention was the largest Women’s Rights Convention, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucrettia Mott. Its purpose was "to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women." Organized by women for women, many consider the Seneca Falls Convention to be the event that triggered and solidified the women's rights movement in America. The Seneca Falls Convention significance or effect is they passed the Declaration of Sentiments, which was a list of grievances and of goals for the Women's Movement to focus on. Perhaps the most important of these goals was fighting for women's right to vote.
What is a strike? What is a strikebreaker? Do you support those on Strike? Or do you support strikebreakers? What are the implications of both?
Strike - a work stoppage in order to force an employer to respond to demands
Strikebreaker - person who steps in to work in place of those on strike (thus making the strike unsuccessful)
Strikers - Enhance worker's Rights, safety conditions, hours, wages, etc for ALL workers across the country
Strikebreakers - Undermine worker's Rights, Enhance factory owner's power...but put food on the table for you and your family
How/why did the Second Great Awakening influence reforms?
During the SGA, preachers rejected the 18th-century Calvinistic belief that God predetermined one’s salvation or damnation; whether a person went to heaven or hell. Instead, they emphasized individual responsibility for seeking salvation (they determine their own fate), and they insisted that people could improve themselves and society in order to be "saved".