Social Reform

Question 1

Horace Mann

Answer 1

• graduate of Brown University
• pushed for more schools - longer school terms
• higher pay for teachers
• expanded curriculum
• massachusetts

Question 2

education

Answer 2

• 1860 - US has only about 100 public secondary schools
• over 1 million adult white illiterates
• slaves in the South forbidden to attend school
• free blacks in the North also excluded from education

Question 3

women

Answer 3

• emma willard - school for women

- obelrin college - ohio - first college to accept women

Question 4

4.

Answer 4

• social issues

Question 5

american temperance society

Answer 5

anti-drinking

Question 6

seneca falls convention

Answer 6

women’s suffrage

Question 7

abolitionists movement

Answer 7

anti-slavery

Question 8

remember this…

Answer 8

the more education a person gets, the more they are able to think on their own. the more a person knows, the more they can shape their own ideas and influence society. thus the reason some believe education is dangerous

Question 9

women increasingly began to fight for the right to

Answer 9

vote

Question 10

the seneca falls convention centered around the topic of

Answer 10

voting

Question 11

which of the following established the try seminary

Answer 11

willard

Question 12

free pubic education allowed who to attend school

Answer 12

the wealthy and the poor

Question 13

free public education is supported by

Answer 13

taxes

Question 14

which of the following was forbidden to attend school

Answer 14

slaves

Question 15

drinking reform was sought by

Answer 15

women