Sec. 1 Quiz
Name the reformer who worked to improve conditions in prisons.
Dorothea Dix
List two 20th century leaders who were influenced by Civil Disobedience?
Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
What religion created the village at New Lebanon, NY?
The Shakers
What was the name of the colony started in Africa as a home for freed slaves?
Liberia
Who wrote the anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator?
William Lloyd Garrison
In which state did Dorothea Dix do much of her work?
Massachusetts
Who wrote about the need for public education?
Horace Mann
What group of people felt you could “rise above” the problems of society through spiritual discovery and self-improvement?
Transcendentalists
This man, a former slave, was a popular speaker and key leader of the abolitionist movement?
Frederick Douglass
What groups of people were often kept in prisons even if they had not committed crimes?
people with mental illness
In what state did Horace Mann live?
Massachusetts (same as Dorothea Dix advocate for prison reform)
What was the name of the book Thoreau wrote outlining his life of simple living?
Walden
This woman was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Who wrote Civil Disobedience?
(He also wrote Walden)
Henry David Thoreau
Why is it important to our country to have public education?
In a democracy, it is important to educate people so that they are able to make informed decisions when they vote.
What was the temperance movement?
Effort to eliminate alcohol use
Where was the first woman's rights convention held?
Seneca Falls, NY
Who does Thoreau consider responsible for the accomplishments of our nation? Read carefully:
The American government... it has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will... [The American government] does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate. The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more if the government had not sometimes got in its way...
Thoreau considers the American people responsible for the accomplishments of our nation (not the government).
What were the perfect societes people tried to create? _____ Societies
Utopian Societies
List three groups of people who did not support the idea of free, public education.
I think the answer is:
Rich People (could afford private education)
Poor people/Farmers (needed kids at home to help with work and couldn't pay the taxes)
Old People (didn't have kids who were school-aged)
Name one of the leaders of that convention.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott