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What was the Second Great Awakening? |
Religious ideas also encouraged reform. In the early 1800s, some ministers questioned whether God alone decides a person’s fate. This movement was known as the Second Great Awakening. Its leaders argued that people’s own actions determined their salvation. In 1826, the minister Charles Finney held the first of many revivals, or huge outdoor religious meetings to convert people. |
Peoples actions determined their salvation
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What did the Second Great Awakening encourage people to do? |
The Second Great Awakening encouraged people to try to improve themselves and society. |
improving yourself
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What was the Prison Reform? |
Dorothea Dix, a schoolteacher, wanted to improve the prison system. She supported the building of new, cleaner, and more humane prisons. |
Dorothea Dix
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What is Prohibition? |
A total ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol. |
alcohol
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What is revivals? |
huge outdoor religious meetings to convert people. |
religious meeting
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What is the temperance movement? |
The effort to reduce the abuse of alcohol. |
alcohol abuse
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What did do Dorothea Dix do? |
-She convinced legislators to make the jails cleaner -She changed the law so people who were in debt did not go to jail -She had state legislatures make a place for people with mental illnesses to go to instead of them going to jail |
Jails
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What did Horace Mann do? |
Few schools existed outside of massachusetts and Horace Mann made free equal education |
Free Education
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What is the Education Reform? |
- Many voters could not read or write -poor children could not afford tutors -immigrants needed to get use to the English culture -New voters needed to be informed |
helping poor people, immigrants and voters
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What did Harriet Tubman do? |
Harriet Tubman escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. In total, as many as 50,000 may have used the Underground Railroad to reach freedom. |
underground railroad
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What were the abolitionists? |
Someone who takes action to end slavery. |
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What did David walker do in the Abolition Movement? |
Published 4 articles and calls African Americans to fight back he encouraged violence toward slave owners. |
publishing articles
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What did William Lloyd Garrison do in the abolition movement?
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From Massachusetts he is inspired by David Walker, he published an antislavery newspaper, he did not want to use violence, his religion is what moved him |
newspaper
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What did Frederick Douglass do in the abolition movement?
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He published newspaper called the North Star, he helped find Americans for the army
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North Star
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What did Henry Highland Garnet do in the abolition movement?
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He was an escaped slave, he told the slaves to commit suicide or fight, he helped recruit troops for civil war, started a school for escaped slaves |
Wanted people to fight
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What did Harriet Beecher Stowe do in the abolition movement?
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Published Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
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What did Harriet Tubman do in the abolition movement?
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She helped people escape from the south through the underground railroad |
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Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
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He believed in his religion and that helped him want to fight against slavery |
religion to fight slavery
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Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
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She was part of the women's rights movement and she published Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Who is Frederick Douglass?
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Most slaves did not know how old they were and he realized his childhood was over when he was 6 and he had to be friends with the masters kid |
Former slave
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What was the underground railroad?
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The path slaves took to escape from slavery many stopped at people's houses and stay the night till they escaped to freedom or a system that helped lead many slaves in the South to freedom in the North and Canada |
escaping to freedom
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What was the Women's Rights Movement?
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It was the organized effort to improve the political, legal, and economic status of women in American society.
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give women more rights
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What was women's suffrage?
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The right to vote
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What was the Declaration of Sentiments?
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It declared that men and women were equal
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What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
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Women felt as though they did not have rights. 100 people women and men signed the Declaration of sediments. Both men and women would give speeches to end the convention. |
where people signed the declaration of sediments
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Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
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She lead many women's rights movements
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Who is Lucretia Mott?
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She was a Quaker, was also an abolitionist. Mott had organization skills and public speaking experience that most women of her day did not. |
Abolitionist
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Who is Sojourner Truth?
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a former slave who spoke on behalf of both African Americans and women.
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Former slave
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What did the women's rights movement mainly focus on
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Education
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Did the North or South to abolish slavery first? Why?
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North but it wasn't as hard for them because there were not many farmers.
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farming
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