Social Reform

Question 1

These religious meetings during the second great awakening were called what?

Answer 1

revivals

Question 2

What were founded in a hope of making a perfect society.

Answer 2

Utopias

Question 3

What is the most famous successful utopia ever founded?

Answer 3

The Mormons

Question 4

Who led the non-drinking movement?

Answer 4

Lyman Beecher

Question 5

What were three reasons drinking was a problem?

Answer 5

Abusive behavior, job inefficiency, and Wastes Money

Question 6

Who led the education reforms?

Answer 6

Horace Mann

Question 7

Who were often not seen at school prior to reforms?

Answer 7

African Americans and women

Question 8

What did Horace Mann do in the education reforms?

Answer 8

He founded the first normal school and supported co-education.

Question 9

What did Thomas Gallaudet do?

Answer 9

Made a method of teaching the hearing impaired.

Question 10

What did Samuel Gridley Howe do?

Answer 10

Using Braille, he developed many books and taught children who couldn’t see.

Question 11

What did Dorthea Dix work to do?

Answer 11

Worked to reform prisons and mental institutions.

Question 12

What writers reformed literature and arts?

Answer 12

Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David

Question 13

What was the literature reform term called?

Answer 13

Transcendentalism

Question 14

Thoreau practiced civil disobedience which is what?

Answer 14

The act of not obeying laws (for being unjust).

Question 15

What did Henry Wadsworth Longfellow do?

Answer 15

Longfellow wrote narrative, or story, poems such as the Song of Hiawatha

Question 16

What did Walt Whitman do?

Answer 16

Walt Whitman captured the new American spirit and confidence in his Leaves of Grass

Question 17

What did Emily Dickinson do?

Answer 17

Emily Dickinson wrote hundreds of simple, deeply personal poems, many of which celebrated the natural world.

Question 18

What did the Hudson River School do?

Answer 18

the Hudson River School focused on scenes of the Hudson River Valley..

Question 19

What faith led the anti-slavery movement?

Answer 19

Quakers.

Question 20

What did Benjamin Lundy do?

Answer 20

Benjamin Lundy, a Quaker, founded a newspaper in Ohio called the Genius of Universal Emancipation. Its purpose was to spread the abolitionist message.

Question 21

What did the American Colonization Society do?

Answer 21

The American Colonization Society helped lead abolition of slavery by sending free AA’s back to Africa. Many were sent to and founded what is now Liberia!

Question 22

What did William Lloyd Garrison do?

Answer 22

He was one of the first to command immediate slavery abolishment. After writing the famous newspaper “The Liberator “ (1831), he got widespread attention to help in the anti-slavery movement.

Question 23

Who were Sarah and Angelina Grimké?

Answer 23

They were famous leaders who wanted women’s rights and slavery abolishment. They received inheritance of their families slaves and freed them. The Grimke’s along with Theodore Weld wrote American Slavery As It Is in 1839. This, along with “ The Liberator” grabbed Americas attention for slavery

Question 24

Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?

Answer 24

Her 1852 novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, became a wildly popular best-seller. The book portrayed slavery as a cruel and brutal system. Her books were even banned in the South.

Question 25

What did John Quincy Adams do to help?

Answer 25

While serving in the House of Representatives, former president John Quincy Adams battled slavery. Adams introduced constitutional amendments providing for the gradual abolition of slavery but they did not pass.

Question 26

What did Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm do?

Answer 26

In 1827 Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm started the country’s first African American newspaper, Freedom’s Journal

Question 27

What did David Walker do to help fight against slavery?

Answer 27

David Walker published a powerful pamphlet against slavery. He challenged African Americans to rebel and overthrow slavery.

Question 28

What happened at the Convention of Philadelphia?

Answer 28

AA leaders encouraged AA’s to move to Canada and to also make AA colleges.

Question 29

Who was Frederick Douglass?

Answer 29

Frederick Douglass is the best-known African American abolitionist. He was born into slavery but escaped to Massachusetts. He joined an anti-slavery society and began speaking against slavery. He also helped edit “The North Star”. He would eventually get his freedom bought from the slaveholder with the help of others. He also supported and helped the women’s right movement.

Question 30

Who was Isabella Baumfree/Sojourner Truth

Answer 30

Born into slavery, she escaped a year before New York banned slavery. She moved their with her children and changed her name to Sojourner Truth. This name had a secret meaning against slavery.

Question 31

What was the Underground railroad?

Answer 31

This was an undercover system that freed over 100,000 slaves. They had secret names likes stations for hideouts and conductors for leaders who helped them escape.

Question 32

Who was Elijah Lovejoy?

Answer 32

He was a famous newspaper writer who founded a newspaper place 4 times. All 4 times was it burned or destroyed and rebuilt. However the fourth time he was shot and killed.

Question 33

Who was Lucretia Mott?

Answer 33

Mott was a Quaker who enjoyed an unusual degree of equality in their communities. Mott helped slaves escape and organized the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. At an antislavery convention in London, Mott met Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The two found they also shared an interest in women’s rights.

Question 34

What was the Seneca Falls Convention?

Answer 34

Founded by Mott and Stanton, 300 women and 40 men attended to the first women’s rights convention.

Question 35

What was the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions?

Answer 35

Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions. These resolutions called for an end to laws that discriminated against women. They also demanded that women be allowed to enter the all-male world of trades, professions, businesses, and given the ability to vote.

Question 36

What was the Declaration of Sentiments similar to?

Answer 36

Declaration of Independence

Question 37

Who was Susan B. Anthony?

Answer 37

Susan B. Anthony who was the daughter of a Quaker abolitionist, called for equal pay, college training for women, and coeducation. Anthony also organized the country’s first women’s temperance association, the Daughters of Temperance.

Question 38

Who was Catharine Beecher?

Answer 38

Catharine Beecher believed that women should be educated for their traditional roles in life. The Milwaukee College for Women used Beecher’s ideas “to train women to be healthful, intelligent, and successful wives, mothers, and housekeepers.”

Question 39

Who was Emma Willard?

Answer 39

Mary Lyon, after working as a teacher for 20 years, began raising funds to open a women’s college. She established Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in Massachusetts in 1837, modeling its curriculum on that of nearby Amherst College.

Question 40

Who was Elizabeth Blackwell?

Answer 40

Elizabeth Blackwell tried and failed repeatedly to get into medical school. Finally accepted by Geneva College in New York, Blackwell graduated first in her class and achieved fame as a doctor.

Question 41

Who was Maria Mitchell?

Answer 41

Maria Mitchell was educated by her father and, in 1847, became the first person to discover a comet with a telescope. The next year, she became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.