Social Reform Movements Intro Day 1/2

Social Reform Movements

To what extent did the social reform movements of the 19th century, 1800's, improve life for Americans?

Multiple Choice

What is Social Reform?

• the ability to act at one's own discretion

• idea that God decides the fate of a person's soul even before birth

• organized attempts to improve conditions of life

Poll

Which of the following were targets of the reform movement era? (click on all that apply)

• Education

• Religion

• Prisons/Mentally Ill

• Women's Rights

• Slavery

Religion

Second Great awakening: a "revival" of Christian beliefs

Prison Reform

Treatment of Prisoners, overcrowded prisons and the treatment of the mentally ill.

Multiple Choice

What did reformer Dorothea Dix do to contribute to the prison reform movement in the early 1800s?

• She spoke of the horrid conditions of prisons and inspired the building of separate facilities for the mentally ill.

• She founded an organization of women that worked together to provide education for imprisoned criminals.

• She organized many protest in hopes of motivating the government to build separate facilities for child offenders.

• She brought American's attention to the need for prison reform by writing novels detailing the condition of prisons.

Multiple Choice

Sojourner Truth was...

• a former slave, women's rights activist, and abolitionist

• a pastor during the 2nd Great Awakening

• the first women to earn a degree from Harvard

• founded the first black church

Multiple Choice

What did Dorothea Dix do?

• She helped the mentally ill.

• She was an abolitionist.

• She saved slaves.

• She helped the poor.

Multiple Choice

What was the name of the large gatherings where preachers shared ideas

• Sunday Service or Mass

• Church

• Revival or Camps

• Baptism or Salvation

Multiple Choice

This was a time of renewed vigor for religious feelings.

• Renaissance

• Enlightenment

• Second Great Awakening

• Revival Movement

Multiple Choice

"Self Reliance" is a major part of what philosophy?

• Transcendentalism
• Calvinism
• Ecocentrism
• Altruist

Abolitionist Movement - abolish slavery, movement to end slavery

William LLoyd Garrison

Frederick Douglass

Sojourner Truth

Equal Rights for Women

Sojourner Truth

Lucretia Mott

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Grimke Sisters

Seneca Falls Convention