Reforms and Sectionalism

Which best describes an important issue in the early 1800s?

• It was against the law for workers to join labor unions or go on strike.

• African Americans were banned from participating in church services.

• Excessive drinking caused problems with work and family.

• Women were forbidden from preaching in religious services.

Who worked to improve American education during the early 1800s?

• Dorothea Dix

• Horace Mann

• Jonathan Edwards

• Juliann Jane Tillman

The work of Dorothea Dix in the 1800s was an example of the

• religious fervor in American society.

• increased desire to reform American society.

• growing opposition to the practice of slavery.

• increased emphasis on moral behavior.

The roots of the Second Great Awakening were in

• Catholicism.

• Protestantism.

• reformism.

• utopianism.

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

_______________ saw slavery as a moral evil.

• slaveowners

• abolitionists

Transcendentalist writers

• Harriet Tubman

• Henry David Thoreau

• Ralph Waldo Emerson