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24 Cards in this Set
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What was a message of the Second Great Awakening? |
Doing good works can help someone be saved. |
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How did Transcendentalists thing people could find answers to life's mysteries? |
By going beyond logical thinking, trusting emotions and intuitions, and questioning society's rules and institutions. |
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Who was the reformer focused on prison reform? |
Dorothea Dix |
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In addition to people who broke the law, what other group of people were put into prisons? |
The mentally ill |
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What did Dix say the mentally ill needed? |
Treatment not punishment |
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In addition to hospitals for the mentally ill, what did Dix accomplish before she died? |
Special systems were in place for children, debtors were no longer put in prison, and there were no more cruel punishments. |
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Who was the reformer focused on education reform? |
Horace Mann |
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What was Mann known as? |
"The father of American public schools" |
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What was a way reformers thought school would help kids? |
They would escape poverty and become good citizens. |
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For which group of people did education improve? |
White boys in the North and West. |
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Who were still not allowed to attend public schools? |
Females and African Americans. |
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Who were the people who supported ending slavery? |
Abolitionists |
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Who created an abolitionist newspaper called the Liberator? |
William Lloyd Garrison |
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On what did he base his abolitionist ideas? |
His deep religious values |
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What was the name of the anti-slavery newspaper started by Frederick Douglass? |
The North Star |
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Who were other active abolitionists? |
Sarah and Angelina Grimke. Sojourner Truth. |
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What did women do with their wages? |
Turned them over to their husbands or fathers. |
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Women could argue for the end of slavery, but what couldn't they do? |
Women couldn't vote, own property, or hold office to make any changes. |
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Where did Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton meet? |
At the World Anti-Slavery Convention |
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What did they organize? |
The Senaca Falls Convention |
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What else were women prohibited from doing? |
Women couldn't speak in public, attend most medical schools, or hold some jobs. |
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What was presented at the Senaca Falls Convention? |
The Declaration of Sentiments |
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On what was the Declaration of Sentiments based? |
The Declaration of Independence |
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What was an immediate effect of the Seneca Falls Convention? |
It created an organized campaign for women's rights. |
