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SSs Unit 15
An Era of Reform
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is abolitionism? | When people were against slavery. |
| Who was Nat Turner? | He was a slave that organized a rebellion to kill all white men that lived in the town. |
| Why was what Nat Turner did so important? | Slaves were trying to have their own right and he supported them. He also made white men scared. |
| What abolitionist published a newspaper called the Liberator? | William Lloyd Garrison |
| Why were many white northern factory workers opposed to abolitionism? | The white men were worried that the slaves were going to come up to the north and take over their factories. |
| Why weren't slaves usually taught how to read? | They wouldn't be able to read the signs if they tried to run away. |
| How did Frederick Douglas learn to read? | He went around to little kids and said, "I bet you can't spell that word." Or- "How do you spell that?" He then created his own alphabet. |
| What did Douglas call his newspaper and why? | The North Star. When slaves ran away, they would follow this star all the way to the north. |
| What is the Underground Railroad? | Where houses of the Quakers lived- that helped slaves when they ran away, so they would not get caught as they traveled north. |
| What religious group was involved in the Underground Railroad? | The Quakers |
| Who was the most famous conductor in the Underground Railroad? | Harriet Tubman |
| Name a woman who was involved in early woman's rights movement. | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| Name 3 ways woman were discriminated against in the early 1800s? | 1- woman didn't have the right to vote. 2- woman worked, but had to give their money to their husband. 3- woman were not allowed to go to school. |
| Where was the first woman's rights convention held? | Seneca Falls |
| What document did the woman right to explain their anger over inequality? | Declaration of Sentiments |
| What famous document did the woman base their document on? | The Declaration of Independence |
| Why did woman use the Declaration of Independence as a model? | They were basically declaring independence, but wanting both men and woman to be equal. |
| Explain what happened to most mentally ill people in the early 1880s. | Most were thrown in jail because they could not control themselves. |
| Explain how prisoners were treated in the early 1800s. | They were treated terribly because they didn't know how to treat them. They beat them and didn't do anything with them. |
| Who fought for the rights of the mentally ill and prisoner reform? | Dorthia Dix |
| Who fought for mandatory public education for American boys? | Horce Mann |
| Why was education reform necessary? | Boys needed an education so they could get better jobs than the farm or the factory. |
| Why was temperance necessary? | It was the fight against drinking and drinking led to violence, unemployment and crime. |
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