Culture and Reform Movements

Popular subjects for art in the mid-1800s

• leafs

• birds

• porcupines

• Native Americans

Helped reform how the mentally ill were treated

• Charles Manson

• Dorthea Dix

• Henry Lovegood

The Seneca Falls Convention

• Marks the beginning of the Women's Rights Movement

• Was in Georgia

• prompted delegates to pass a resolution supporting women’s suffrage.

In the 1800s, it was believed women needed to have a basic ____________ to be able to teach their sons.

• education

• degree

Women could not

• own property

• vote

• serve on juries

The Great Awakening started in

• Georgia

• New England

_______________ saw slavery as a moral evil.

• slaveowners

• abolitionists

Abolitionists believe slavery violated the

• Declaration of Independence

• The Constitution

Transcendentalist writers

• Harriet Tubman

• Henry David Thoreau

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dorthea Dix inspired mental health reform in the following ways.

• Sent more of the mentally ill to prisons

• reformed prisons and asylums

• encouraged the government to establish mental hospitals