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The reformers of 1826 to 1851: who organized, what they demanded, and what they won.
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This revival preacher held long protracted meetings across the "burned-over district" of western New York, including a famous revival at Rochester in 1830-31, and later became president of Oberlin College. Who was he?
After visiting jails, almshouses and poorhouses across Massachusetts, this reformer presented a documented memorial to the state legislature in 1843 describing mentally ill people confined in cages, closets and cellars. Who was she?
In 1837 he became the first secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education, founded the Common School Journal, and pushed the state to open the country's first public normal school for training teachers. Who was he?
In 1838 this abolitionist published Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman, arguing that women had the same moral duties and therefore the same rights as men. Who was she?
Raised in a slaveholding family in Charleston, she published an Appeal to the Christian Women of the South in 1836 and in 1838 became the first woman to address a state legislature in the United States. Who was she?
Born enslaved in New York as Isabella Baumfree, she went to court in 1828 to recover her son Peter after he was sold illegally into Alabama, and she won the case. Who was she?
At an Albany temperance meeting in 1852 she was told that women delegates were there to listen and learn, not to speak. She walked out and helped organize a separate women's temperance society. Who was she?
In January 1831 a young Boston printer brought out the first issue of a weekly antislavery paper that demanded immediate emancipation and refused any gradual plan. Who was he?
The American Anti-Slavery Society, founded at Philadelphia in December 1833, sent out lecturing agents and mailed pamphlets by the hundred thousand. What did it demand?
The American Colonization Society, formed in 1816 and supported by many prominent politicians, raised money to buy land on the coast of West Africa and to charter ships. What was the society formed to do?
Supporters of the common-school movement in the 1830s and 1840s lobbied state legislatures for property taxes to pay for schooling and for a longer school year. What were they seeking?
In the 1820s an American jail commonly held debtors, the mentally ill, children and convicted felons in the same rooms. What did the prison reformers of the next two decades campaign for?
In 1825 the Welsh manufacturer Robert Owen bought a town in Indiana and invited settlers to live there under a new plan. What was New Harmony founded to test?
New York passed a Married Women's Property Act in 1848 after years of petitioning. What did the law change?
At the 1848 convention in Seneca Falls every resolution passed unanimously except one, which several delegates thought so extreme it would make the whole meeting ridiculous. Frederick Douglass spoke for it and it carried narrowly. Which resolution was it?
In 1835 a Boston mob dragged an abolitionist editor through the streets with a rope around him, and in 1837 a mob at Alton, Illinois killed the editor Elijah Lovejoy and threw his press into the river. What did abolitionists argue after such attacks?
From 1836 to 1844 the House of Representatives automatically tabled every antislavery petition without reading or debating it. John Quincy Adams fought the rule for eight years until it was repealed. What did opponents say the rule violated?
In 1840 six Baltimore craftsmen who had been heavy drinkers founded a temperance society whose meetings featured members' public confessions and pledges of total abstinence. What was it called?
In 1840 the American Anti-Slavery Society split when women were appointed to its business committee. One faction walked out, rejecting Garrison's refusal to work through politics. Which political path did many in that faction take?
In 1829 a free Black clothing dealer in Boston published a pamphlet calling on enslaved people to resist, and copies were found sewn into sailors' clothing in Southern ports. How did Southern legislatures respond?
In 1837 Massachusetts clergy, targeting two sisters who lectured against slavery, warned that when a woman "assumes the place and tone of a man as a public reformer" her "character becomes unnatural." What did that push abolitionist women to argue?
American Slavery As It Is, published in 1839, was built from thousands of runaway advertisements, court notices and news items clipped from Southern newspapers. Why did its compilers build the book that way?
In the first issue of his paper in 1831 an editor wrote: "I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD." What position does this line state?
Among the grievances adopted at Seneca Falls in 1848 is this one: "He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise." What is this line demanding?
Another grievance in the same 1848 document reads: "He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns." What condition is this line describing?
The North Star, begun at Rochester in 1847, carried this motto across its masthead: "Right is of no sex; truth is of no color; God is the Father of us all, and we are all brethren." What does the motto assert about the paper's causes?
Put these in the order they happened: the founding of the American Temperance Society; the founding of the American Anti-Slavery Society; the publication of Frederick Douglass's Narrative; the Seneca Falls Convention.
The temperance campaign and the abolition campaign of the 1830s disagreed about almost everything they wanted. What did they have in common in the way they worked?
Reformers demanded many things between 1826 and 1851, and most were still being demanded in 1851. Which of these had actually been written into law by a state legislature before 1852?
Put these reform milestones in order: Massachusetts creates a state board of education; a memorial on the treatment of the insane goes to the Massachusetts legislature; The North Star begins publication; New York passes a married women's property act.
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