USH MODULE 7 GROUP DBA

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

Which of the following were targets of the reform movement era?

(click on all that apply)

• Education

• Religion

• Prisons/Mentally Ill

• Organic Food

• Women's Rights

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 pastor during the 2nd Great Awakening

• the first women to earn a degree from Harvard

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

• founded the first black church

This was a time of renewed vigor for religious feelings.

• Renaissance

• Enlightenment

• Revival Movement

• Second Great Awakening

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

• Calvinism

• Transcendentalism

• Ecocentrism

• Altruism

The Second Great Awakening was

• the idea to increase reason and logical thinking

• religious revival in the United States that sparked social reform

• the quest for the perfect alarm clock

• a political movement to force nullification for laws

Match the following

• increased church enrollment

• temperance

• was to be for all children

• Education Reform

• 18th Amendment

• Second Great Awakening

The Transcendentalism movement most directly affected the development of American

• politics

• literature

• popular culture

• painting and sculpture

Match the following

• perfect community

• The writing of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson focused on

• printed newspapers about antislavery

• Utopia

• led to abolition and women's rights

• William Lloyd Garrison and Rev. Elijah Lovejoy

• how people felt in the United States

• Second Great Awakening

• educated people about mental illness

• Dorothea Dix