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Health and Prison Reform
Women in Reform Movements
Knowledge is Power
Terms
100
someone who worked for an end to slavery was called this
What is an abolitionist?
100

What group in prisons contributed to overcrowding before the development of asylums?

Mentally ill individuals 

100
First colleges for women
What is Mount Holyoke (MA)

What is Oberlin (OH)

100
this is how public schools are funded
What is through taxes?
100

Huge religious rallies that lasted for days in the early 1800s (Coachella for Jesus)

What are revivals

200

Protestant women believed that this was the root cause of crime and violence 

What is drunkenness 

200

the medical care of this group was particularly crude during the early years of the U.S. - Dorothea Dix knew this

What is the mentally insane?

200

this reform movement called for a ban on alcohol sales and consumption

What is the temperence movement?

200
this was the first state to call for mandatory education for all children
What is Massachusetts?
200
Nonviolent protest of unjust laws, as presented by Thoreau 

What is civil disobedience 

300

What 19th century reformers consider to be "true freedom"

Freedom from the temptation to sin rather than freedom to do whatever you want 

300

Methods of treatment for the mentally ill in the 1800s

Exercise

Work 

Education

Religious instruction

300

The belief that women should stay in the home doing housework and raising children 

What is the Cult of Domesticity 

300

Why were women allowed to receive some education despite not being allowed to vote, hold office, etc?

For the benefit of the sons they were raising

300

Religious movement of the 19th century that influenced the abolitionist, temperance, and suffrage movements of the time

What is the 2nd Great Awakening

400
this religious movement helped spur the social reform movements of the first half of the 19th century by preaching that salvation is gained by helping others
What is the Second Great Awakening?
400
this women helped get legislation passed that brought reform to both insane asylums and prisons
Who is Dorthea Dix?
400

These sisters were the daughters of a slaveholder and strong abolitionists 

Who are Angelina and Sarah Grimke/Who are the Grimke sisters

400

NC women's colleges

What is Salem

What is Bennett

What is Meredith

What is Elizabeth

What was William Peace

400

Prohibited Congress from debating bills on abolition

What is the gag rule

500
The 1848 meeting of womens' suffrage movement leaders was named after this upstate New York town where they met
What is Seneca Falls, NY?
500
two problems facing the prison system in the first half of the 19th century
What is overcrowding and unsanitary conditions?
500
This document, written in Seneca Falls, NY by women, was strongly modeled after the Declaration of Independence 

What is the Declaration of Sentiments

500
his reforms helped earn him the distinction of being called the "father of American public education"
Who is Horace Mann?
500

humans are inherently good but can be corrupted by society and institutions, insight and experience and more important than logic, spirituality should come from the self, not organized religion, and nature is beautiful and should be respected

What is transcendentalism