Moral Reform
Some _____ women developed a sharp consciousness of gender and became public actors.
religous
Who started the national movement to establish state asylums for the mentally ill?
Dorothea Dix
Who was the author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl?
Harriet Jacobs
Presbyterianism
Horace Mann
By 1840, how many chapters and members of the Female Moral Reform Movement were there throughout the North and Midwest?
555 chapters and 40,000 members
Why was the national movement to establish asylums started?
Because insane women were jailed alongside male criminals
By 1840, female abolitionists were asserting that traditional gender roles resulted in the _________ ________ __ ______.
domestic slavery of women
What did minister Philemon Fowler say about women?
That they inhabited a separate sphere of domestic life, and should keep to their roles as republican mothers.
As secretary to the ___________ Board of Education, Mann established teaching standards and recruited women as teachers, among other things.
Masachusetts
Who was the president of the Female Moral Reform Society?
Lydia Finney
BY 1854, how many penitentiaries and state jails did Dix visit in the name of the movement?
18 penitentiaries and 300 state jails
What did Sarah Grimke say that defended the rights of both slaves and women?
That men and women are created equal and are capable of doing anything men can do.
When was Treatise on Domestic Economy written?
1841
Who was the intellectual leader of new women educators?
Catherine Beecher