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