rweforms Flashcards
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What is the definition of Revival?
Revival refers to a renewed interest in religion and spiritual awakening.
What is the significance of Revival?
Revival played a crucial role in encouraging social reforms in the United States.
What is the definition of Temperance?
Temperance is the movement aimed at reducing or prohibiting alcohol consumption.
What is the significance of Temperance?
Temperance was significant in promoting social reform and improving public health.
What is the definition of Normal School?
Normal schools are institutions for training teachers.
What is the significance of Normal School?
Normal schools helped improve the quality of education by training qualified teachers.
What is the definition of Abolitionist?
An abolitionist is a person who advocated for the end of slavery.
What is the significance of Abolitionist?
Abolitionists played a key role in the movement to end slavery in the United States.
What is the definition of Suffrage?
Suffrage refers to the right to vote in political elections.
What is the significance of Suffrage?
Suffrage was significant in the fight for women’s rights and equality.
What is the definition of Coeducation?
Coeducation is the education of both male and female students together.
What is the significance of Coeducation?
Coeducation promoted gender equality in education.
Why is the Second Great Awakening an appropriate name for the religious revival that led to social reform in the United States in the mid-1800s?
The Second Great Awakening is a good name because it was a second wave of religious revival that encouraged people to improve society. It led to major social reform movements like abolition, temperance, and women’s rights.
How might the Second Great Awakening have helped create the temperance movement?
It inspired the temperance movement by teaching that alcohol was harmful and that people had a duty to make society better. Many religious leaders preached against drinking, leading to efforts to reduce or ban alcohol use.
Describe the educational reform movement and its impact on education in the United States.
The educational reform movement worked to provide free public education so more children could learn. Horace Mann led efforts to create public schools, train teachers, and make education available to everyone, which helped improve literacy and opportunities for many people.
How did reformers use education to help people with disabilities and to create better conditions for prisoners?
Reformers created schools for people with disabilities, such as schools for the blind and deaf, to give them better education and support. They also worked to improve prisons by treating prisoners more fairly, focusing on rehabilitation instead of just punishment.
What contributions did Frederick Douglass make to the abolitionist movement?
Frederick Douglass spoke and wrote against slavery, sharing his experience as an enslaved person to convince others to support abolition. He published an autobiography and a newspaper, The North Star, which helped spread the message of freedom.
Why was Sojourner Truth’s message in her speech ‘Ain’t I A Woman’ so powerful?
Sojourner Truth’s speech was powerful because she showed that Black women deserved the same rights as others, challenging racist and sexist beliefs. Her speech, ‘Ain’t I a Woman?’, questioned why she was not treated equally despite her strength and hard work.
How was the Underground Railroad related to the movement to end slavery, and how did it help enslaved persons?
The Underground Railroad helped enslaved people escape to freedom and was part of the larger movement to end slavery. It was a secret network of safe houses and routes led by abolitionists like Harriet Tubman, who risked their lives to help others gain freedom.
Why is it not surprising that Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton met at an antislavery convention?
Mott and Stanton met at an antislavery convention because both the abolition and women’s rights movements fought for equality and justice. Many women saw how they were denied rights while fighting for others, which led them to start the women’s rights movement.
What rights did the delegates to the Seneca Falls Convention advocate for women?
The delegates at Seneca Falls advocated for women’s rights, including voting, owning property, and fair treatment. They wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, which listed the injustices women faced and demanded change.
Why do you think delegates to the Seneca Falls Convention modeled their declaration on the Declaration of Independence?
They modeled their declaration on the Declaration of Independence to show that women deserved the same rights as men. By using familiar language, they argued that denying women’s rights was just as unfair as when the American colonies fought for independence.
