Reformers of the 1800s
This reformer wanted to improve public schools and pay teachers more money.
Who is Horace Mann?
The Liberator and The North Star were newspapers that spoke out against this.
What is slavery?
This was the religious revival that took place from 1800-1840.
What was the Second Great Awakening?
What was a slave's greatest fear?
Being sold away from their families
Who are Lucretia Mott or Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
Dorothea Dix wanted to reform these institutions.
What are prisons?
She was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
What were the English colonies?
Many slaves had this job on the plantations.
What are field hands (picking cotton, etc.)?
The first organized movement for women's rights.
What Dorothea Dix believed mentally ill people needed instead of punishment.
What is treatment?
Who is Sojourner Truth?
The belief that every human has unlimited potential.
What is transcendentalism?
Slaves were not taught to do this.
Name one thing women were upset about in the 1800s?
Susan B. Anthony fought hard for these two rights for women.
What is the right to vote and equal pay?
He was a runaway slave who spoke about the evils of slavery.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The person that went to the woods for two years to be close to nature.
Runaway slaves would only move at night and try to follow this.
What is the North Star?
Who was Susan B. Anthony?
These two authors were Transcendentalists who wanted to improve society.
Who are Thoreau and Emerson?
These sisters gave their slaves freedom and then spoke out against slavery.
Who are the Grimke Sisters?
The thing that was taught as the key to salvation.
What are good works?
What is punished or killed?
The only woman who sighed the declaration Seneca of Falls and lived to vote in a presidential election.
Who is Charlotte Woodward?