Social Stufies

Worked for prison reform and care for the mentally ill

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Lucretia Mott

• Dorthea Dix

• Susan B Anthony

Women's rights movement leader who organized the Seneca Falls Convention

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Dorthea Dix

• Harriet Tubman

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Religious movement that led to social reforms

• Temperance

• 2nd Great Awakening

• Suffrage

• Transcendentalism

Leader in education reform; Wanted to make school available for everyone

• Dorthea Dix

• Horace Mann

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• William Lloyd Garrison

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.

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

• founded an organization of women that worked together to educate people to become teachers

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

• brought America's attention to the need for education reform for women

• fought Congressmen for equal rights for Native Americans

What does the word "suffrage" mean?

• the right for people to have a public education

• the right to vote

• the right to not suffer from listening to political speeches

• the state of undergoing pain or hardship

In what way did the ideas of the Declaration of Sentiments differ from the ideas found in the Declaration of Independence?

• The Declaration of Sentiments was written by Thomas Jefferson
• The Declaration of Independence granted voting rights to men and women
• The Declaration of Independence supported the idea of nullification
• The Declaration of Sentiments included the equality of men and women

The Temperance Movement used this as its tactic to accomplish its goals

• A direct appeal to change laws surrounding slavery

• The use of songs and propaganda that created fear over the effects of drinking

• The use of songs and propaganda that created fear over the effects of poor prisons

• Fiery preaching aimed at conversion

Abolitionism found its roots in this religious society

• Quakers

• Baptists

• Catholicism

• The Shaker Community