Ch. 18 Flashcards
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Q
Describe the conditions in prisons and mental hospitals before the Age of Reform.
A
Children were locked up in the same prisons as adults.
Mental people were locked up and beaten if they misbehaved.
1
Q
What were the effects of the second great awakening?
A
It fired up people’s emotions.
People were taught that you could gain forgiveness for sins by doing good works.
2
Q
What was education like before the reform movement led by Horace Mann?
A
Only ten weeks a year
Teachers not well educated
Only for rich kids
3
Q
Who were some of the leaders of the abolition movement?
A
Sojourner Truth
Frederic Douglass
Harriet Beecher Stowe
4
Q
What did Angelina and Sarah Grimke lead the way for other women to do?
A
The Declaration of Sentiments
