Reform and Slavery Review Sheet

Reform and Slavery Review

Reform
Second Great Awakening Prison Reform
Dorothea Dix Education Reform
Horace Mann Sojurner Truth
Abolitionists Women’s’ Rights
Frederick Douglass Lucretia Mott
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Declaration of Sentiments
Suffrage Seneca Falls
Grievance

Slavery
Economics of Slavery Legal Status of Slaves
Slave Narratives King Cotton
Expansion West Working Conditions
Living Conditions Slave Revolts (Nat Turner)
Slave Life Institution
Spirituals

Review Questions
1. What must life have been like for the average slave on a plantation in the South prior to the Civil War? Describe the experience.

2. What were some of the major reform movements of the mid-1800’s? Who were the leaders of these movements and what did they accomplish?

3. The Declaration of Sentiments was modeled after the Declaration of Independence. Why was the Dec. of Sentiments written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton? What did these social reformers hope to accomplish in this document?

4. Why was slavery called an institution? How did slavery become so popular in the south? What were the northern attitudes toward slavery?

5. What is abolitionism? Describe this movement and what they hoped to accomplish.