Reform Movements
This reform movement wanted to fix the issue of Slavery
Abolitionists
This convention in 1848 called for full equality between men and women
Seneca Falls
The Second Great Awakening said people should be more like...
Jesus
Under Slavery, people are considered _________.
Property
Abolitionists wanted an end to slavery, as well as ___________________.
Equality under the law
What is the definition of Reform?
To change something to make it better
Name the 3 of the 7 principles of government
Federalism
Popular sovereignty
Republicanism
Checks & balances
Separation of powers
Limited government
Individual rights
What issue needed fixed regarding the mentally ill and criminals?
Prisons and Asylums
What was the Second Great Awakening?
Travelling Religious reform movement
This reformer changed Prisons and made Asylums for the mentally ill
Dorothea Dix
The most common form of discipline for slaves was ____________.
Whipping
This abolitionist ran an Anti-Slavery newspaper and burned a copy of the Constitution.
William Lloyd Garrison
What is the fugitive slave act of 1850?
A strict law that forced northerners to help catch and return runaway slaves
Which region did industrialization take place?
North/ north east
What was the reformer's concern about education?
Most kids weren't getting it, and if they did it was bad/ focused on working
What did reformers do for people who were in prison but did not commit a crime?
Made Asylums for the mentally ill
Which group often led the temperance movement?
Women
A child of a slave was considered ________.
Property
This abolitionist was a former slave who taught himself to read, escaped, and began speaking on what he saw
Frederick Douglass
What is suffrage?
Ex: African American suffrage
The right to vote
Why did people move to the colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland ?
religious freedom
This Reform Movement addressed the issue of Gender in America. (I'm looking for a specific term)
Women's Rights / Women's Suffrage
What is the definition of "reform"
To change something in order to improve it
This reformer was a teacher who focused on Education
Horace Mann
What often happened to families of slaves?
Separated by being sold separately
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote an anti-slavery book that was banned in the south
What was the name of this book and the purpose?
Uncle tom’s cabin
To spread the evils of slavery by providing graphic and horrific details
13th amendment
Emancipated ( freed) the enslaved
What is mercantilism?
Trading
This reform issue wanted to address the issue of Alcohol Abuse (looking for the specific name)
Temperance
Horace Mann believed that Education would make __________________.
Children be better Americans and/or Christians (I will accept either of these)
This reformer led the Seneca Falls convention
Elizabeth C. Stanton
Who was the slave who led the 1831 rebellion that killed 57 white people?
Nat Turner
This abolitionist was a "conductor" on the underground railroad
Harriet Tubman
nonviolent refusal to obey certain laws
Ex: The northerns refusing to return the slavescivil disobedience
Which historical document was the first documentation of self-government in the United States?
Mayflower compact