Social Studies TCI Study Guide

Henry David Thoreau

wrote about living close to nature

Transcendentalists believed that people should

question society's rules

The Second Great Awakening inspired many people to

oppose slavery

Central figure in the transcendentalist movement

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dorothea Dix investigated conditions in prisons and almshouses

for about two years

In the jails and asylums near Boston, Dix found mentally ill and insane persons

enduring neglect and extreme abuse

What did Dix believe was the only way to remedy the evils she referred to?

legislation to create public facilities for the mentally ill

According to Dix, who was responsible for the abusive conditions under which the mentally ill and insane are housed?

the state of Massachusetts

According to the Common School Journal, who or what is responsible for educating the people?

the government

According to the 1852 Common School Journal article, what was the state of public education?

some states had public schools

Which opinion is stated in the article?

every child has an equal right to an education

A goal of educational reformers was a free public education for

everyone

How did the influence of slavery change the woman who enslaved him?

she changed her treatment of enslaved people from kindness to cruelty

Douglass learned to read through lessons with

white boys in the street

What does Douglass mean when he says "bread of knowledge"?

education

How old was Douglass when he learned about the movement to abolish slavery?

about 12 years old

The Seneca Falls Convention was held in 1848 at the Wesleyan Chapel in New York. What was the Seneca Falls Convention?

the first women's rights convention in world history