7th SS Chapter 7.3 Guided Reading

Question 1

During the colonial era, many American Protestant Christians believed in ________.

Answer 1

Predestination

Question 2

In the early 1800’s, a dynamic religious movement known as the ___________ swept the nation.

Answer 2

Second Great Awakening

Question 3

To stir religious feeling, preachers held _______ that might last for days and attracted thousands of people.

Answer 3

revivals

Question 4

One leader of the Second Great Awakening was a minister named __________.

Answer 4

Charles Grandison Finney

Question 5

His teachings had effects that _______ the country, inspiring a number of new social reform movements.

Answer 5

changed

Question 6

________ often played a leading role in these reform movements.

Answer 6

Women

Question 7

One of the most vigorous social reformers was ________.

Answer 7

Dorothea Dix

Question 8

Dix’s shocking reports helped persuade state legislators to fund _______.

Answer 8

a new mental hospital

Question 9

Five out of six people in northern jails were ______.

Answer 9

Debtors

Question 10

Name three prison reforms brought by Dix and her supporters.

Answer 10

1. Built prisons with only one or two inmates to a cell.
2. Cruel punishments were banned
3. People convicted of minor crimes received shorter sentences.

Question 11

The ________, a campaign against alcohol abuse, took shape in the late 1820’s.

Answer 11

Temperance Movement

Question 12

________ became head of the Massachusetts board of education in 1837.

Answer 12

Horace Mann

Question 13

Under Mann’s leadership, Massachusetts built ________, ________, and __________.

Answer 13

1. new schools
2. extended school year
3. raised teacher’s pay

Question 14

By 1850’s, mort northern states had set up __________ elementary schools.

Answer 14

free tax supported (public)

Question 15

In 1817, Gallaudet set up a school for the ______ and Howe found the first American school for the _____.

Answer 15

deaf; blind