Social Studies: T7 L5, Reform and Women's Rights

An organized attempt to improve what is injust or imperfect in society.

• Second Great Awakening.

• Social Reform.

• Seneca Falls Convention.

• Debtor.

A widespread religious movement in the early 1800's

• Women's rights movement.

• Seneca Falls Convention.

• Second Great Awakening.

• Social Reform

A person who cannot pay what he or she owes.

• Debtor.

• Social Reform.

• Seneca Falls Convention.

• Women's rights movement.

An 1848 meeting at which activists called for equal rights for women, often seen as the birthplace for women's rights movement.

• Social Reform.

• Women's rights movement.

• Debtor.

• Seneca Falls Convention.

An organized campaign to win legal, educational, employment, and other rights for women.

• Seneca Falls Convention.

• Second Great Awakening.

• Social reform.

• Women's rights movement.

______ held the first revival that was believed to touch even the most hopeless sinner and were held across the nation.

• Horace Mann.

• Charles Finney.

• Dorothea Dix.

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

What was New Harmony?

• The place where John Brown's raid occured.

• A Utopian community based upon common ownership of property.

• One of the prisons that Dorothea Dix visited.

• The place where the Seneca Falls Convention took plce.

______ was able to persuade state legislators to fund new mental hospitals, treat the ill as patients and not criminals, and to create asylums.

• Lucretia Mott.

• Horace Mann.

• Laura Bridgeman.

• Dorothea Dix.

Which was the first state to require free community supported public schools?

• Massachusetts.

• New York.

• New Jersey.

• California.

______ convinced Massachusetts to provide more money for education, build new schools, and to extend the school year.

• Annie Bidwell.

• Elizabeth Blackwell.

• Alexander Lucius Twilight.

• Horace Mann.