Temperance
The main goal of the Temperance Movement was to prevent this.
What is alcohol abuse/alcoholism/drinking alcohol?
This was the goal of the Education reform movement.
What is improving public education in the US?
The Declaration of Sentiments was primarily modeled after this document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Workers often worked 6-7 days a week, and sometimes this many hours a day.
What is 16 hours a day?
As part of the Missouri Compromise, Missouri entered the union as a slave state, while this state entered as a free state. (Hint: carved out of Massachusetts)
What is Maine?
Many Temperance members related alcohol consumption to the abuse of these two family members.
What are spouses and children?
Horace Mann reformed New England schools by doing these two things.
What are spending state money to build new schools, hiring trained teachers, extending the school year, and dividing students into grades? (Any two of the four)
Involvement in these other two movements led to female activists being upset about their lack of rights. (name at least 1)
What are the abolitionist and temperance movements?
This other issue hurt workers' ability to argue for higher wages by providing a stream of workers willing to take lower pay.
What is immigration?
The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a free state, and allowed these two states to decide whether they would be slave or free based on "popular sovereignty".
What are New Mexico and Utah?
These were two of the tactics used by the Temperance movement.
What are passing laws, forming organizations, writing songs, and producing political cartoons. (Any 2 of the 4).
Horace Mann called this the "great equalizer".
What is education?
What is Seneca Falls?
Workers often used this tactic, where they would stop showing up for work until their demands were met, to argue for better conditions.
What is a strike?
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This was the husband's name in the song "The Wife's Lament" by Archibald Scott.
What is Connor?
Before the 1840s, public school teachers were primarily of this gender.
What is male?
What is New York?
In the 1830s, these started to pop up. Groups of workers that advocate for their fellow workers, and negotiate with employers to meet their needs.
What are unions?
This Act allowed two states to decide whether they would be slave or free, and led to Bleeding Kansas.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
There were this many steps in "The Drunkards Progress".
What is 9 steps?