Studied by 43 people
Emma Willard
________: Established the first college level institution in the U.S. for women.
Thomas Gallaudet
________: Improved the education and lives of hearing impaired people by going to France for 2 years to study their methods.
Mary Lyon
________: Founded Mount Holyoke Seminary in Massachusetts in 1837 (womens college)
Lyman Beecher
________: a minister that preached widely about alcohols evil effects.
Dorothea Dix
________: a middle- class reformer who helped change the prison system in the U.S. started state hospitals for the mentally ill.
Middle class
________: A social and economic level between the wealthy and the poor, families of merchants (managers, accountants, attorney)
Tenements
________: Dirty, overcrowded, and poorly built housing structures, immigrants lived in them.
Horace Mann
________: the leading voice for the educational reforms.
African americans
________ faced many restrictions and opposition from white workers.
Nativists
________: People who opposed immigrants.
Samuel Gridley Howe
________: He significantly improved the education of visually impaired Americans.
Common school movement
________: a movement to improve the education of young Americans.
Temperance movement
________: a movement that encouraged people to use self- discipline to stop drinking hard liquor and to drink beer and wine only in small amounts.
Catharine Beecher
________: daughter of Lyman Beecher, was one of the most effective womens educational reformers during the early 1800s.
Nativists
People who opposed immigrants
Know-Nothing Party
Formed by nativists
Middle class
A social and economic level between the wealthy and the poor, families of merchants (managers, accountants, attorney)
Tenements
Dirty, overcrowded, and poorly built housing structures, immigrants lived in them
Dorothea Dix
a middle-class reformer who helped change the prison system in the U.S. started state hospitals for the mentally ill
Temperance movement
a movement that encouraged people to use self-discipline to stop drinking hard liquor and to drink beer and wine only in small amounts
Lyman Beecher
a minister that preached widely about alcohols evil effects
Horace Mann
the leading voice for the educational reforms
Common-school movement
a movement to improve the education of young Americans
Catharine Beecher
daughter of Lyman Beecher, was one of the most effective womens educational reformers during the early 1800s
Emma Willard
Established the first college level institution in the U.S. for women
Mary Lyon
Founded Mount Holyoke Seminary in Massachusetts in 1837 (womens college)
Samuel Gridley Howe
He significantly improved the education of visually impaired Americans
Thomas Gallaudet
Improved the education and lives of hearing impaired people by going to France for 2 years to study their methods
Sojourner Truth
Another extremely active speaker for abolition and women’s rights
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A womens rights activist who went to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, England during her honeymoon.
Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth's acquaintance who helped plan the Sececa Falls Convention
Seneca Falls Convention
A convention to form a society to advance the rights of women. Held on July 19th, 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York.
Declaration of Sentiments
A document which the organizers of the convention wrote to present their case. It modeled on the language of the Declaration of Independence. At the convention, 100 people signed the document, which detailed their beliefs about social injustice against women.
Lucy Stone
One of the most important women's rights movements in the U.S. She was a well-known speaker for the Anti-Slavery Society. She became one of the first women’s rights activists to suggest changing the institution of marriage.
Susan B. Anthony
One of the most important women's rights movements in the U.S. She argued that men and women should receive equal pay and that women should be allowed to enter traditionally male professions. She argued that women should be able to own property.
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