Reforms

What did Dorothea Dix want to improve?

• Shelters for pets

• Equality for African Americans

• Conditions in prisons

• Food distribution

What was the name of the weekly abolitionist newspaper?

• The New York Sun

• Chattanooga Daily Rebel

• National Enquirer

• The Liberator

While supporting the temperance movement, abolition, and women’s rights, Horace Mann’s greatest achievement was…

• Publishing a novel about slavery

• The reform of public education

• Providing healthcare to the impoverished

• Rewriting the constitution

What event was the event held to promote women’s rights in 1848?

• The March on Washington

• The Sarah Childress Polk Meeting

• The Rally in Hyde Park

• The Seneca Falls Concention

Which two women led the Women’s Rights Movement?

• Angelina and Sarah Grimke
  

• Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  

• Sojourner Truth and Dorothea Dix
  

• Betsy Ross and Sacajawea
  

Define Reform

• to make change to something in order to improve it 

• first co-ed college

• the time period directly after a major war

• the right to vote

What is an abolitionist?

• Someone who wants to abolish or end slavery.

• Someone who wants to end voting for slaves.

• Someone who doesn't want to work with slaves.

• Someone who wants to never wear jeans.

Frederick Douglass was a former slave who:

• Complained about his new life in the North.

• Went into hiding in New York.

• Created a platform about returning to Africa.

• Spoke up about his experiences as a slave while living in the North.

The Declaration of Sentiments presented at the Seneca Falls Convention stated, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.”  This statement reflected a demand for--

• the formation of a new political party

• voting rights for women

• improvements in health-care facilities

• increased involvement of women in the abolitionist movement

the right of women to vote

• voting

• suffrage

• rights

• frankage