Social reforms
This wave of religious fervor dominated the early 1800s in the United States
Second Great Awakening
A person who works to end slavery
Abolitionist
womens convention that took place on July 1848
Seneca Falls convention
person who started the public-school system as we know it today
Horace Mann
use of little or no alcohol
Temperance
Religious camp meetings on the frontier that saw the presence of great speakers and preachers of the era
Revivals
Network of escape routes from the South to the North
Underground Railroad
Right to vote
Suffrage
troubles of the early public-school system
schools were poorly funded, teachers lacked training, females received limited education, and the punishments were inappropriate
a series of meetings conducted by a preacher to arouse religious emotions
Revivals
This Connecticut minister was a crusader against the production, distribution and consumption of alcohol
Lyman Beecher
The most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Reforms the women's movement called for
equal pay for women, college training for girls and coeducation, the teaching of boys and girls together
college eventually allowed the admission of women and African Americans and when was it founded
a person who strongly favors doing away with stavery
Abolitionist
This Northern state was home to one of the first laws banning the manufacture and sale of alcohol
Maine
Society that was formed to buy back slaves and send them to what country in Africa
American Colonization Society, Liberia
changes in law and government that took place due to the women's movements
women could vote, could seek divorce, share guardianship of their children jointly with their husbands
three main reformers and the reforms to help with hearing, vision, and special needs in education
Thomas Gallaudet with hearing impaired, Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe with advanced visually impaired, and Dorothea Dix special needs
a system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North
Underground Railroad
The temperance movement of the mid-1850s lost steam after several years the movement was revived however and led to the passage of this amendment in 1917
18th amendment
How did southerners try to justify slavery and thwart the abolitionist movement
Said that Northern workers were worse off than slaves, they treated the slaves "well," "wage slavery" system of slavery provided food, clothing, and medical care, other defenses were based on racism
women's movement connected with other social movements
women's and African Americans were working toward similar goals and so they worked together, and they were both oppressed
Schools that came about to train teachers
Normal school
the right to vote
Suffrage