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| What were some rights that were denied to women in the mid-1800's? | couldn't vote or hold office, when she married, her husband became the owner of all of her property, if she worked outside the home, her money belonged to her husband, he had the right to hit his wife as long as he didn't seriously injure her. |
| How did women start becoming aware that they were denied rights? | When they starting becoming abolitionists and trying to gain rights for African Americans. |
| She was an effective women's right leader, who had been born into slavery. | Sojourner Truth |
| She was a Quaker and also fought for women's rights. She was respected for her persuasive logic. | Lucretia Mott. |
| What two women set up the Seneca Falls Convention? | Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| At the Seneca Falls Convention, a sentiment that demanded equality for women at work, school, and in the church was presented. What was the name of this sentiment? | Declaration of Sentiments |
| The Declaration of Sentiments was based on what political document? | Declaration of Independence |
| This marked the start of an organized campaign for women's equal rights. | Seneca Falls Convention |
| This was a woman who spoke all over the country to try and gain the right of suffrage (vote) for women. | Susan B. Anthony |
| Why were girls in the Middle Class taught drawing and dancing in school? | They were expected to grow up to take care of children so there was no reason to teach them to read and write. |
| At the Seneca Falls Convention, women believed __________ was the key to equality. | education |
| This was the first college open for women. | Mount Holyoke |
| She was the first woman to graduate from medical school and surprised many people when she was first in her class. | Elizabeth Blackwell |
| Until the early 1800's, most American writers depended on _____________ for their ideas. | Europe |
| What were two of Washington Irvings best known novels? | Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle |
| Who wrote The Deerslayer and The Last of the Mohicans? | James Fennimore Cooper |
| He wrote The Scarlet Letter and drew on the Puritan American experience. | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| He wrote Moby Dick | Herman Melville |
| This famous author wrote the Tell-Tale Heart and The Raven and is known as the father of the detective story. | Edgar Allen Poe |
| He wrote Waldon Pond where he describes spending a year alone at Walden Pond. | Henry David Thoreau |
| He wrote Paul Revere's Ride and The Song of Hiawatha | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| This poet had only 7 poems published during her lifetime, but is considered to be won on the nation's greatest. | Emily Dickenson |
| This was the first group of painters to develop their own American style. | Hudson River School |
| Most members of the Hudson River school painted ___________. | landscapes |
| What were some of the reform movements that sprang up in the early 1800's? | Temperance Movement, Women's Rights, Abolitionists, Religious Revivals, Education Reform |
| An organized attempt to improve what is unjust or imperfect in society. | social reform |
| This is the belief that God decided in advance which people would gain salvation in heaven. | Predestination |
| This is the idea that people can choose to save their souls. | free will |
| large outdoor religious meetings were called ____________. | revivals |
| This was a woman who worked to improve the lives of criminals and prevent the imprisonment of the mentally ill. | Dorthea Dix |
| Describe what prisons were like in the mid 1800's. | They were fairly new to the United States, men, women and children were cramped together in cold prisons, they were given little food, many were in prison for failing to pay debts. |
| This was a movement to ban alcohol. | Temperance Movement |
| What reasons did many reformers give for wanting to ban alcohol? | It could lead to wife beating, child abuse, and the break-up of families. |
| What state outlawed alcohol? | Maine |
| Why did Thomas Jefferson believe people needed to be educated? | In order to be better citizens |
| In which state was every town ordered to build a school? | New York |
| Who led the fight for better schools in Massachusetts? | Horace Mann |
| Were schools better in the North or in the South? | North |
| At what age did schooling end in the North and the South? | Eighth Grade |
| He was the director of the first school for the blind. | Samuel Gridley Howe |
| What political document did many abolitionists look to in order to ban slavery? | The Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson. They especially quoted the lines, "all men are created equal" |
| What religious beliefs were held that led some people to become abolitionists? | The Quakers often spoke out against slavery. They believed it was a sin for one human being to own another human being and that all men and women were equal in the eyes of God. |
| How did the American Colonization Society suggest dealing with the slavery issue? | They proposed that slavery be ended by setting up and independent country in Africa for the slaves. |
| Did President Monroe support the idea of setting up an indendependent country in Africa for slaves? | yes |
| Did most slaves want to move to an independent country in Africa? | no |
| What nation in Western Africa was set up for slaves? It's name comes from the Latin word for free. | Liberia |
| What were the two types of aboltionists in the 1800's? | gradual and extreme |
| What is the difference between a gradual abolitionist and an extreme abolitionist? | Gradual abolitionists want to end slavery gradually over time, extreme abolitionists want to end slavery right away. |
| He was one of the best known abolitionists and published a newspaper called The North Star that explained to African Americans how they could escape to the North. | Frederick Douglass |
| Who was the most outspoken white abolitionist and he warote an antislavery paper called The Liberator? | William Lloyd Garrison |
| These were two sisters from a large plantation who spoke out against slavery. | Sara and Angelina Grimke |
| This was a network of abolitionists who secretely helped slaves reach freedom in the North or Canada. | Underground Railroad |
| A person who guided the slaves on the underground railroad was called a _____________. | conductor |
| Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad? | Harriet Tubman |
| Why were northern mill owners against abolitionists? | They depended on cotton from the South for their factories |
| What other reason did some Northerners give for being against the abolitionists? | They were afraid freed slaves would come to the North and take jobs away from white men. |
| How did many Southern slave owners feel about slavery? | The slaves were better off than northerners who worked in dusty and dirty factories. |
| Why were Southerners who didn't own slaves against abolitionists? | They felt that the Northerners wanted to destroy the South's way of life. |
| The Grimke sisters and Sojourner Truth most actively supported which two reform movements? | abolition and women's rights |
| By the 1850's, there were free public elementary schools in most northern states or in most southern states? | northern states |
| What did all of the reform movements have in common? | goals for greater freedom and a better quality of life for all. |
| How did education improve as a result of the reform movement? | Public schools became more common, in some states, every town was required to set up an elementary school. Teaching improved as teacher training colleges were set up. Educational opportunities opened for women and African Americans. There were new colleges in the North for women and some private colleges began to admit African Americans and women. Also, special schools were set up for deaf and blind students. |
