Section 2
Vocabulary: A person who followed a philosophy that taught people to trust their emotions and intuition.
Transcendentalist.
The leader of the prison reform
Dorothea Dix
This group benefited the most from early efforts to establish public schools
African Americans
Vocabulary: A person who supported abolition, or the ending of slavery
Abolitionist
Women were denied control over _____ and _____
Property and wages
Vocabulary: To make changes in order to bring about improvement, end abuses, or correct injustices.
Reform
Dorothea Dix found these conditions in jails and asylums
Living in dirty, crowded cages, whipped when they were misbehaving.
The father of American public schools
Horace Mann
A former slave who became a leader in the Abolitionist movement
Frederick Douglass
This was an obstacle for women who were working to end slavery in the United States
Not allowed to vote
The central figure in the transcendentalist movement
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dorothea Dix dedicated her life to _______
Helping the imprisoned
Horace Mann attended school ______ a year
10 weeks
This person started a fiery abolitionist newspaper called, The Liberator
Wiliam Lloyd Garrison
The lives of _______ and ______ were similar because they were both denied rights
Slaves and Women
A revival of religious feeling and belief from the 1800s to the 1840s
The Second Great Awakening
American debtors' owed less than ____ dollars
20
________ was the focus of Horace Mann's reform
Public Education
Fredrick Douglass spread his message of freedom for all people through _____
Newspapers
This person was an organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention
Lucretia Mott