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8.6.3-7
Reform & The Women's Movement
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| discrimination | unfair treatment of a group of people |
| Henry David Thoreau | A famous writer who believed that people have the right to protest when they are not treated fairly. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | An American writer and leader of the transcendentalist movement. |
| utopia | communities based on a vision of a perfect society |
| reform | to change something and make it better |
| revival | a meeting of Christians meant to inspire others or get new converts |
| temperance | drinking little or no alcohol |
| Horace Mann | he reformed education in Massachusetts by extending the school year to six months, increasing teacher pay, and improving teacher training. |
| Thomas Galludet | he reformed education by developing a method to teach the hearing impaired |
| Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe | he reformed education by developing a method to teach the vision impaired |
| Dorthea Dix | made it her life’s work to educate the public about the poor conditions for both the mentally ill and for prisoners |
| transcendentalism | a philosophy emphasizing that people should transcend, or go beyond, logical thinking to reach true understanding, with the help of emotions and intuition |
| Margaret Fuller | A leading transcendentalists. In her writing she supported rights for women. |
| Emily Dickinson | A great women poet in the 1850s |
| Lucretia Mott | A reformer who called for temperance, peace, workers’ rights, and abolition |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Organized the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls (with Lucretia Mott). |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| Susan B. Anthony | worked for women's rights and temperance. She called for equal pay for women and college training for girls |
| Grimke Sisters | fought for women's rights and abolition |
| Mary Lyon | Established the first female-only college in the U.S. |
| Emma Willard | Established the Troy female seminary. |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | First women to receive a medical degree in the U.S. |
| equality | the state of being equal |
| The Second Great Awakening | a revival of religious feeling and belief from the 1800s to the 1840s |
| Seneca Falls Convention | The gathering of supporters of women’s rights in July 1848 that launched the movement for women’s right to vote |
| Declaration of Sentiments | a formal statement of injustices suffered by women, written by the organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention. Sentiments means “beliefs” or “convictions.” |
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