Consepts Reformers Quiz Flashcards
(37 cards)
Since debtors couldn’t pay their debt, where did they send them?
To prisons
When was the Era of Reforms?
1825 - 1860
What were Reformers sought to end or change? 6 things
- Slavery
- Increase access to education
- Improve prison conditions
- Improve mental health care
- Advance women’s rights
- Ban/limit alcohol use (temperance)
Why did reformers come during the Second Great Awakening?
Because people looked to reform the negative impacts of the Industrial Revolution
What did people believe during the Second Great Awakening?
- actions led you to salvation
- God didn’t have your life planned
- your actions dictate your life
Why did most changes happen in the North and slower in the South?
Because the south didn’t want slavery to be reformed
What was changed in the political reform movement? What was the movement based on?
- slavery and other injustices violate our democratic ideals
- based on the idea of liberty and equality
What did the Religious reform teach?
Stress free will, wil be achieved through good action not predestination by God
What did Finney teach during the religious movement?
He taught that individual salvation is the first step to reform a society
What were some reform movements? (PTEP)
Reformed prisons and cared for mentally ill (Dorthea Dix)
Temperature: ban or alcohol abuse (Annie Bidwell)
Education: school becomes mandatory (republic requires educated citizens)
Public school were created and then colleges
Did everyone want African American education?
No
Who started a school for AF. AM. open girls?
Prudence Crandall (Quaker in PA)
When did colleges for AF. AM. open?
1837-1856
What was the colleges for AF. AM established for?
The disabled
Who opened a school for the deaf and blind?
Thomas Gallaudet
What did Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Stanton do in London?
They joined together and made a group of Americans at a World Anti Slavery Convention
Women’s rights, religious and political, were mostly led by who?
Women
How did the teachings of the Second Great Awakening inspire movements for social reform?
Since it was believed that you can change your destiny through your actions people relied on reformers to help change the negative impacts of the Industrial Revolution.
Which state was the 1st to abolish slavery and why?
Massachusetts b/c it was against religion and they didn’t really need the slaves
Which other state banned slavery by 1804?
Pennsylvania
Why did The American Colonization Society wanted to give slaves their own colony?
because they felt they’d never be treated fairly in the United States, so some slaves were sent to Liberia
Why did most slaves not want to leave to Liberia?
b/c the US was their home
How did Abolitionists and the AF.AM try to stop slavery?
They drafted petitions and sued
Who was the most famous AF. AM. abolitionist?
Frederick Douglass
