STAAR Review Day 8: Reform

Seneca Fall's Convention called for women's suffrage and equality

• Henry David Thoreau

• Women's Rights Movement

• Horace Mann

• Second Great Awakening

Encouraged people to be more religious, inspired other reform movements

• Henry David Thoreau

• Women's Rights Movement

• Horace Mann

• Second Great Awakening

Refused to pay taxes in protest of slavery

• Henry David Thoreau

• Women's Rights Movement

• Horace Mann

• Second Great Awakening

Believed education reform was essential for a successful society

• Henry David Thoreau

• Women's Rights Movement

• Horace Mann

• Second Great Awakening

What is a defining characteristic of the Reform Era?

• The US acquired more land to improve the economy

• Regions of the US disagreed over slavery

• The Founding Fathers created the US Constitution

• Efforts were made to improve conditions in society

Advocated for prison reform and better care for the disabled

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Dorothea Dix

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Abolitionist leader who published the liberator

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Dorothea Dix

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Helped draft The Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Dorothea Dix

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Dorothea Dix

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

This leader inspired followers of the Abolitionist Movement by -

• Writing Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Publishing the anti-slavery newspaper The North Star

• Organizing the underground railroad

• Becoming the first African American senator