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Define the Antebellum era? |
The period or era before the civil war (1820 - 1860)
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List the six areas of reform that occurred durign the 1820s and through the 1850s |
Abolitionist movement, tempereance movement, public education reform, womens right movements, prison mental hostpital, political reform |
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Which tempereance group was formed in 1826? |
American Temperance Society: and they tried to get people to moderate their drinking and to take a pledge of total absitenence |
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What two immigrants were largely opposed to the temperance movement |
irish groups and german groups |
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Reformers wished to set up what three state supported things to help these people |
state supported prisions, poor houses, and mental hospitals |
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Who MOST led the drive to build state hospitals for the mentally ill in the us |
Dix, Dorathea Lynde |
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Dix, Dorathea, as well as led the drive to build hospitals for the mentally ill, also dod what? |
improved prison conditions |
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The word penitentiary comes from what term? These prisons tried to make their inmates feel what? |
Penitent, penitent or sorry
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What pennslyvania religious group led the way in prison reforms? Their ideas became known as what? |
The Quakers, the pennyslvania system |
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Who became the leading advocate for the common school movement in the us? What state? |
Mann, Horace Massachusetts |
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Horace Mann worked for what four things? |
improved schools. compulsory attendance for all children a longer school year increased teacher preparatino |
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Who created a series of elementary textbooks that taught reading and moral instuction.. his education |
Mcguffey, a pennsylvania school teacher and clergy man |
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What were mcguffeys books called? |
Ecletic Readers |
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What values were taught in the mcguffey readers? |
hard work, punctuality, and sobriety |
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Weems, MAson locke wrote the first popular biography about whom? |
George Washington |
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Provide the title of the first popular biography about george washington |
The life and memorable actions of george washinton |
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Did mason locke invent tales about washing in his bio? |
most def |
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Which two sisters objected to male opposition to their antislaver activities |
sarah and angelina Grimke |
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Which two woman began campaigning for womans rights after they had been barred from speaking at an antislavery convention? they also organized the first womans right convention in the us |
lucretia mott, and elizabeth cady stanton |
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Who wrote the letters on the quality of the sexes and the condition of woman? |
sarah grimke moore |
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how many woman and men were in attendaance at the seneca falls convention 1848 |
68 woman, 32 men |
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Who wrote civil disobedience |
thoreau, Henry david |
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What did thoreau say peopele should do |
people should refuse to obey any law they believe is unjust |
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what is thoreau's doctrine called? |
passive resistance |
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What did thoreau refuse to do in 1846 |
refuse to pay poll toaxes |
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Why did thoreau refuse to pay the poll tax |
he do so to express his opposition to slavery as it became an issus in the mexican war |
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What civils rights leader from the 1950s and 1960s was influenced by thorea's civil disobedience? |
leo tolystoy(russia) Gandhi (india) MLK JR.. and other leaders of the american civil rights movement. |
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Did mlk jr. embrace the doctrine of passive resistance? What was his philosphy called? |
soul force |
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