STAAR Reform, Art, Literature & Immigration

In the 1840s, Seneca Falls, New York, became the scene of an important convention for

• women's rights

• labor union organizations

• temperance reform

• prison reform

This was a religious movement that swept through America in the 1800s encouraging converts to reform society for the better --

• Workers' Rights

• Boston Tea Party

• Second Great Awakening

• Women's Rights

"We have been obliged to preach woman's rights, because instead of listening to what we had to say on temperance, many have questioned the right of a woman to speak on any subject. In all courts and legislatures, all businesses waits until that point [is] settled. Now, it is not settled in the mass of minds that woman has any rights on this footstool, and much less a right to stand on an even pedestal with man, look at him as an equal, and rebuke the sins of her day and generation. Let it be understand, that we are a woman's rights society; we believe it it a woman's duty to speak whenever she feels the [urge] to do so...."

— Woman's State Temperance Society

According to this document, which constitutional right was denied women?

• right to bear arms

• freedom of speech

• freedom of the press

• freedom of religion

This was the movement to end slavery in the United States —

• Second Great Awakening

• Education

• Abolitionism

• Temperance

The Declaration of Sentiments, adopted at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, was significant because it —

• demanded the immediate abolition of slavery

• promoted the idea of equal rights for women

• asked government to restrict harmful business practices

• called for the prohibition of alcoholic beverages

The primary goal of the American Temperance Society was to —

• decrease the consumption of alcohol

• ban the spread of slavery to new territories

• gain the release of mentally ill people from prisons

• create a self-sufficient utopian society

She was an advocate for prison reform and care of the mentally-ill —

• Frederick Douglass

• Lucretia Mott

• Dorothea Dix

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A tourist would most likely go to the location shown on the map to visit —

• the Elizabeth Cady Stanton House in Women’s Rights National Historical Park

• Historic Jamestowne in Colonial National Historical Park

• Independence Hall in Independence National Historical Park

• George Washington’s Headquarters in Valley Forge National Historical Park

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Popular essayist and lecturer

• Promoted individualism and self-reliance

• Works included “Nature” and “The American Scholar”

Which movement did Emerson lead?

• Temperance

• Abolitionism

• Second Great Awakening

• Transcendentalism

This painting shares a common theme with which literary work?

• “The Tell-Tale Heart,” by Edgar Allan Poe

• The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• “Paul Revere’s Ride,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Nature, by Ralph Waldo Emerson