Social Reforms of the 1800s

What is Social Reform?

• the ability to act at one's own discretion

• idea that God decides the fate of a person's soul even before birth

• organized attempts to improve conditions of life

What did reformer Dorothea Dix do to contribute to the prison reform movement in the early 1800s?

• She spoke of the horrid conditions of prisons and inspired the building of separate facilities for the mentally ill.

• She founded an organization of women that worked together to provide education for imprisoned criminals.

• She organized many protest in hopes of motivating the government to build separate facilities for child offenders.

• She brought American's attention to the need for prison reform by writing novels detailing the condition of prisons.

Sojourner Truth was...

• a former slave, women's rights activist, and abolitionist

• a pastor during the 2nd Great Awakening

• the first women to earn a degree from Harvard

• founded the first black church

What did Dorothea Dix do?

• She helped the mentally ill.

• She was an abolitionist.

• She saved slaves.

• She helped the poor.

What was the name of the large gatherings where preachers shared ideas

• Sunday Service or Mass

• Church

• Revival or Camps

• Baptism or Salvation

This was a time of renewed vigor for religious feelings.

• Renaissance

• Enlightenment

• Second Great Awakening

• Revival Movement

"Self Reliance" is a major part of what philosophy?

• Transcendentalism
• Calvinism
• Ecocentrism
• Altruist

Which abolitionist led hundreds of slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad

• Frederick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Harriet Tubman

• Susan B. Anthony

What new reform began to grow in the North in the early 1800s?

• First Great Awakening

• Second Great Awakening

• The Progressive Reform

• The Social Reform

How did the Second Great Awakening encourage reform?

• It encouraged every day, common people, to get involved in social issues.

• It allowed more people to become priests.

• It encouraged children to not go to school.

• It allowed women to begin working jobs normally done by men.