History Quiz 3/5/23

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.