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Consepts Reformers Quiz Flashcards

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Since debtors couldn’t pay their debt, where did they send them?

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To prisons

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When was the Era of Reforms?

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1825 - 1860

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What were Reformers sought to end or change? 6 things

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  • Slavery
  • Increase access to education
  • Improve prison conditions
  • Improve mental health care
  • Advance women’s rights
  • Ban/limit alcohol use (temperance)
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Why did reformers come during the Second Great Awakening?

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Because people looked to reform the negative impacts of the Industrial Revolution

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What did people believe during the Second Great Awakening?

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  • actions led you to salvation
  • God didn’t have your life planned
  • your actions dictate your life
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Why did most changes happen in the North and slower in the South?

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Because the south didn’t want slavery to be reformed

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What was changed in the political reform movement? What was the movement based on?

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  • slavery and other injustices violate our democratic ideals
  • based on the idea of liberty and equality
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What did the Religious reform teach?

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Stress free will, wil be achieved through good action not predestination by God

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What did Finney teach during the religious movement?

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He taught that individual salvation is the first step to reform a society

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What were some reform movements? (PTEP)

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Reformed prisons and cared for mentally ill (Dorthea Dix)
Temperature: ban or alcohol abuse (Annie Bidwell)
Education: school becomes mandatory (republic requires educated citizens)
Public school were created and then colleges

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Did everyone want African American education?

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No

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Who started a school for AF. AM. open girls?

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Prudence Crandall (Quaker in PA)

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When did colleges for AF. AM. open?

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1837-1856

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What was the colleges for AF. AM established for?

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The disabled

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Who opened a school for the deaf and blind?

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Thomas Gallaudet

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What did Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Stanton do in London?

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They joined together and made a group of Americans at a World Anti Slavery Convention

17
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Women’s rights, religious and political, were mostly led by who?

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Women

18
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How did the teachings of the Second Great Awakening inspire movements for social reform?

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Since it was believed that you can change your destiny through your actions people relied on reformers to help change the negative impacts of the Industrial Revolution.

19
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Which state was the 1st to abolish slavery and why?

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Massachusetts b/c it was against religion and they didn’t really need the slaves

20
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Which other state banned slavery by 1804?

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Pennsylvania

21
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Why did The American Colonization Society wanted to give slaves their own colony?

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because they felt they’d never be treated fairly in the United States, so some slaves were sent to Liberia

22
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Why did most slaves not want to leave to Liberia?

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b/c the US was their home

23
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How did Abolitionists and the AF.AM try to stop slavery?

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They drafted petitions and sued

24
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Who was the most famous AF. AM. abolitionist?

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Frederick Douglass

25
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Who was Frederick Douglass?

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A slave who broke the slave codes by learning to read and escaped

26
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Which newspaper did Frederick Douglass and why?

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He created the “North Star” newspaper to express truths about slavery

27
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Who were the Grimke sisters?

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abolitionists and advocates of women’s rights

28
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Who was Fredrick most supported by?

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The Grimké sisters

29
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How did Harriet Tubman help slaves escape?

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By forming an Underground Railroad

30
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Who publishes “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”?

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Harriet Breecher Stowe

31
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What was “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” about?

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Slaves lives

32
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Why were Northerners afraid of free slaves?

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B/c they feared that they would take their jobs

33
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Why is slavery such an issue?

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It starts to divide the North and South, increasing violence over the issue

34
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What really starts the Civil War?

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The fight of the South wanting to leave the U.S. but others say no and that we must stay together

35
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What are 4 ways to protest?

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  • boycott
  • warning by poster
  • pen
  • violence
36
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What was Harriett Tubman referred to?

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Black Moses

37
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How did slaves communicate with no suspicion?

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By singing in their Gulah language or playing drums

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