Ch. 18 1. The Spirit of Reform (18.2):

• 1a. Second Great Awakening (vocab. definition good).

- a revival of religious feeling and belief from the 1800s to the 1840s.- Choice and good works.

• 1b.Transcendentalist (Vocab. definition good).

- a philosophy emphasizing that people should transcend, or go beyond, logical thinking to reach true understanding, with the help of emotions and intuition.

Ch. 18 2. Prison Reform (18.3):

• 2a. What did Dorothea Dix do?

- Worked with those imprisoned and improved conditions for prisoners.- Mentally ill and debtors no longer considered criminals.- Children no longer jailed with adults.- Punishments need to fit the crimes.

Ch. 18 3. Education Reform (18.4 Exam):

• 3a What did Horace Mann do?

- Teacher training schools and better wages.- Boys could attend public H.S.- Girls were accepted to most universities by 1860.- Need for public schools. Poor stealing and more opportunities for women and A.A.

• 3b. How were boys and girls educations different?

- Boys benefitted most from education improvements.- Better public schools and H.S. All boys could attend.- Only certain schools a for women (finishing schools), some academics.- Women not accepted in most professional schools.- Some opportunity for women to go to universities.

Ch. 18 4. The Movement to End Slavery (18.5, Exam):

• 4a. Fredrick Douglas.

- Former slave. Gained his freedom. Self taught w/ help of slave owners wife.- Owned a newspaper, North Star. - Abolitionist speaker.

• 4b. William Lloyd Garrison.

- White abolitionist leader.- Strong religious feelings against slavery.- Owned a newspaper, The Liberator.- Friend of Fredrick Douglas, later parted ways.

Ch. 18 4. The Movement to End Slavery (18.5, Exam):

• 4c. Abolitionist.

- People who wanted to see and end to slavery.- Many worked on the Underground Railroad to help slave gain their freedom.- Antislavery newspapers and speakers.

Ch. 18 5. Equal Rights for Women (18.6, Exam):

• 5a. List some things women could not do in 1800.

- Could not vote, go to certain schools, control over property and wages, sign contracts, speak in public, hold public office,

• 5b. Elizabeth Blackwell.

- Had a hard time getting into medical school bc/ she was a women.- Women like her had to work twice as hard and be twice as good.- Still discriminated against when she was #1 in her class.- Women had to work together to help each other.

Ch. 18 5. Equal Rights for Women (18.6, Exam):

• 5c. Seneca Falls Convention (who, what, where, why).

- Women and men that met to fight for more equality for women. Created an organized campaign for women’s rights- At the convention they agreed to fight for women’s right to vote and other rights.- Met in Seneca Falls, NY.- Women were tired of not being able to do some of the same things that men could. They felt as though they were denied many rights like slaves.

• 5d. Declaration of Sentiments.

- A statement that was agreed and voted on at the Seneca Falls Convention.- It was most like the Declaration of Independence and included the phrase “All men and women are created equal.”- Declared to the world that they were fighting for equal rights and especially the right to vote.

Ch. 18 6. Matching Items on the Quiz

– Terms: Reform, Abolitionist, 2nd Great Awakening, Seneca Falls Convention, Declaration of Sentiments.

– Study vocab., be able to recognize and match the vocab.

– Do not need to redo vocab. items for the review sheet if the vocab. assignment is completed.