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8th grade
Chapter 18: Era of Reform
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reformers | Between 1820-1850, some Americans devoted themselves to such causes as ending slavery, improving education |
| Second Great Awakening | A revival of religious feeling and belief in the 1820's and 1830's, to become better Christians. |
| Henry David Thoreau | Famous optimistic writer, who urged people to follow their own hearts to improve their lives. |
| Dorothea Dix | Worked tirelessly to improve conditions for prisoners and the mentally ill. |
| Insane | people who have a mental disorder. |
| asylum | Hospitals for the mentally ill. |
| Public schools | Schools that are paid for by taxes and managed by local government for the benefit of the general public. |
| Horace Mann | Father of public education, supervisor of education in Massachusetts. |
| Oberlin College | Became the first college to admit women in 1837 (Ohio). |
| Prudence Crandall | Admitted an African American girl to her Connecticut girls' school. White parents took their children out of the school. |
| Abolitionists | People who favored abolition, the ending of slavery. |
| Sojourner Truth | A former slave gave speeches throughout the North, against slavery and later, in favor of women's rights. |
| William Lloyd Garrison | A white abolitionists who started a fiery abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator. |
| Fredrick Douglass | A runnaway slave who became a leader in the abolitionist movement. |
| North Star | Abolititionist newspaper started by Fredrick Douglass. |
| Angelina and Sarah Grimke | Raised in a slaveholding family in South Carolina, became Quakers and began to speak out about the poverty and pain of slavery. |
| Lucretia Mott | Leader of the women's rights movement. |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Leader in the movement for equal rights for women. |
| Lucy Stone | Graduated from Oberlin College, invited to write a speech but was not allowed to give the speech in public, only a man could. She refused. |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | Rejected by 29 medical schools, before being accepted. Graduated at the top of her class, country's first female doctor. Still no hospitals or doctors would work with her. |
| Declaration of Sentiments | A formal statement of injustices suffered by woman, written by organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention. (beliefs or convictions) |
| Seneca Falls Convention | Seneca Falls, N.Y. 340 men and women. Helped to create an organized campaign for women's rights |
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