Mr. Bressler HMS History, Ch. 14, Reformers
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 What did Harriet Hanson work towards? | Better working conditions |
| Which two men believed in reforming yourself and then society? | Peter Cartwright and Charles G. Finney |
| These two people made sure 14 states banned the sale of alcohol and guided America towards the 18th Amendment. Who were they? | Mary C. Vaugn and Neal Dow |
| He referred to education as "The Great Equalizer" and people knew him as "The Father of Education." Who was he? | Horace Mann |
| Which two men worked toward the 2nd Great Awakening? | Peter Cartwright and Charles G. Finney |
| She was 11 years old when she led a strike in the mill she worked in. Who was she? | Harriet Hanson |
| Which woman convinced Northerners to build hospitals for the mentally ill rather than imprison them? | Dorothea Dix |
| Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman in America to... | Earn a medical degree |
| Which two african-americans were the first to earn a college degree? | Alexander Twilight and John Russwurm |
| Dorothea Dix worked towards which two things? | Better prisons and care for the mentally ill |
| Who founded the first school for the deaf? | Thomas Gallaudet |
| Who worked to improve education for the blind and wanted to improved education overall? | Samuel Gridley Howe |
| What spread information about reform movements and society? | Penny Papers |
| What woman opposed feminism because she believed women belonged in the home? | Sarah Hale |
| "Mother Ann Lee" worked towards which movement? | Utopia |
| Who founded the Shakers? | "Mother" Ann Lee |
| This woman was an African-American poet who wrote about slavery and women's rights. | Ellen Watkins Harper |
| This man was a freed slave whose pamphlets got him killed. | David Walker |
| Name the white abolotionist who wrote the nation's leading abolition paper. | William Lloyd Garrison |
| Name the two sisters who grew up on a plantation but believed slavery was evil. | Sarah and Angeine Grimke |
| This man was a preacher who spoke out against slavery and was effective for getting people to join. | Theodore Weld |
| This man disobeyed gag rules and argued for the abolition cause. He argued before the Supreme Court. | John Quincy Adams |
| This man was an escaped slave who became a powerful speaker against slavery in the U.S. ad Britain. | Frederick Douglass |
| This woman was an escaped slave who spoke to crowds in the north about abolition and rights for women. | Sojourner Truth |
| This man shipped himself in a box up north to freedom. | Henry "Box" Brown |
| This woman was the most famous conductor of the Underground Rairoad and was an escaped slave herself. | Harriet Tubman |
| Both of these women worked for freedom of slaves and women's rights. They organized the Seneca Falls Convention. Who were they? | Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott |
| Who was the scientist who founded the Association for the Advancement of Women? | Maria Mitchell |
| Who achieved the 19th Amendment and helped build feminism into a national orginization? | Susan B. Anthony |
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