The Abolitionist Movement
This term describes Americans who wanted to help pass laws to end the practice of slavery.
What are Abolitionists?
This 1848 meeting in New York helped unite the leaders of the women's rights movement.
This 1848 meeting in New York helped unite the leaders of the women's rights movement.
This reformer is known for the belief that "a human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated".
Who is Horace Mann?
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this famous novel to speak for those "who cannot speak for themselves".
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
During the mid-1800s, these types of developments expanded, leading to rapid city growth.
What are Industrial developments?
This was the primary goal of events like the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society’s Fourth of July rally.
What is to increase awareness about ending slavery across the U.S.?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton modeled this document closely after the Declaration of Independence to demand rights for women.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
Dorothea Dix impacted society by opening facilities to help these specific patients.
Who are the Mentally Disabled?
Frederick Douglass used his newspaper to spread information about these.
What are the injustices of slavery?
Rapid city growth in the 1800s led to this "widespread" problem involving too many people in one space.
What is Overcrowding?
This famous abolitionist published the newspaper The Liberator.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This specific right, the right to a major demand of the Declaration of Sentiments.
What is Suffrage?
This general term best describes the concept of making "changes for improvement" in society.
What is Reform?
In a letter to Lord Denman, Harriet Beecher Stowe explained she wrote her novel because she felt slavery was a "dishonor" to this religion.
What is Christianity?
Besides overcrowding, name one other social problem created by expanding industry mentioned in the text.
What is Pollution or Crime?
He was a former slave who energetically "attacked the ramparts of slavery" through his newspaper, The North Star.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This movement, which discouraged alcohol consumption, was closely connected to the women's rights movement during the Second Great Awakening.
What is the Temperance movement?
This reformer pushed for improved conditions for those "serving time for crimes".
Who is Dorothea Dix (Prison Reform)?
This newspaper was used as a platform by William Lloyd Garrison.
What is The Liberator?
Reform movements were organized specifically to address these types of problems created by industry.
What are Social problems?
She contributed to the movement by organizing a secret network to smuggle enslaved individuals to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
In addition to women's rights, Elizabeth Cady Stanton fought "tirelessly" for this other major cause.
What is Abolition (or the emancipation of enslaved individuals)?
Educational reformers established the belief that this group of people deserves free public schooling.
Who is every child?
According to The North Star, Douglass sought the "destruction of every refuge of lies" protected by these two major entities.
What are Church and State?
This major city is shown in an 1800s picture illustrating the busy streets of the industrial era.
What is New York City?