Chapter Thirteen: The Spirit of Reform

Americans who became abolitionists wanted to end

• slavery

• discrimination against women

• immigration

• imprisonment for debt

Urged young women to seek greater independence from the home and family and to obtain such independence through education.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Margaret Fuller

• Elizabeth Blackwell

• Angelina Grimke

Angelina and Sarah Grimke led the way for other women to...

• gain admission to colleges.

• work for the same pay as men.

• vote and hold public office.

• speak out in public on issues.

Which famous African American abolitionist, speaker, and writer escaped from slavery as a runaway?

• John Russwurm

• Frederick Douglass

• Samuel Cornish

• William Lloyd Garrison

Angry whites invaded his antislavery newspaper offices and wrecked his presses, set fire to his building, and shot and killed him.

• Benjamin Lundy

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Elijah Lovejoy

• Amos Dresser

Sojourner Truth

• A formerly enslaved African American who attracted huge crowds to hear her eloquent speeches.

• A daughter of slave owners who attracted huge crowds to hear her eloquent speeches about abolition.

• A woman's rights activist who held a convention at Seneca Falls, New York.

• An escaped slave who was a conductor for the Underground Railroad.

Before the reform movement led by Horace Mann,

• few women had the right to vote.

• most children did not attend school.

• debtors were often thrown in jail.

• sinners did not expect to be forgiven.

Harriet Tubman

• A formerly enslaved African American who attracted huge crowds to hear her eloquent speeches.

• A daughter of slave owners who attracted huge crowds to hear her eloquent speeches about abolition.

• A woman's rights activist who held a convention at Seneca Falls, New York.

• An escaped slave who was a conductor for the Underground Railroad.

European American boys benefited the most from early efforts to establish public schools. 

• True

• False

A religious revival movement

• The Great Conversion

• The Notable Religious Movement of 1830

• The Great Revival

• The Second Great Awakening