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Chapter C12 An Age of Reform- pgs 414-426

Vocabulary:

social reform, pg 414

predestination, pg 415

revival, pg 415

temperance movement, pg 416

prohibition, pg 416

public school, pg 417

isolated, pg 403

abolitionist, pg 423

eliminate, pg 422

via, pg 424

Key People:

Charles Finney, pg 415

Dorothea Dix, pg 417

Horace Mann, pg 418

William Lloyd Garrison, pg 423

Frederick Douglas, pg 424

Harriet Tubman, pg 424

Focus Question: What can happen to a nation if its population becomes better educated and more politically aware?

Study Questions:

  1. Communities that tried to create perfect societies were called… (pg 416)
  2. The _____ Movement was an organized effort to end alcohol abuse. (pg 416)
  3. The first college for African-American men in the United States was… (pg 419)
  4. This woman worked to support the building of new, more sanitary prisons, and asylums for those with mental illnesses. (pg 416-417)
  5. The first state to admit African-Americans to public schools was… (pg 419)
  6. The first state to ban slavery in its constitution was… (pg 422)
  7. A reformer who wanted to end slavery was called a/an… (pg 423)
  8. Who founded the newspaper, the Liberator, which supported giving all African-Americans full political rights? (pg 423)
  9. This man was a former slave and a powerful speaker for abolitionism. (pg 424)
  10. This former President of the United States read anti-slavery petitions from the floor of the House of Representatives. (pg 424)
  11. The _____ was a network of people who secretly helped slaves (pg 424)
  12. Called “Black Moses”, she escorted more than 300 people to freedom. (pg 424)
  13. The main goal of the Seneca Falls Convention (1848) was (pg 428,DT)
  14. The Declaration of Sentiments illustrates the lasting impact of which document?

(pg 428, TBQ, DT)

  1. text based questions

“The pretty woman who stood before the all-male audience seemed unlikely to provoke controversy. Tiny and timid, she rose to the platform of the Massachusetts Legislature to speak. Those who had underestimated the determination and dedication of this individual, were brought to attention when they heard her say that the sick and insane were "confined in this Commonwealth in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens! Chained, beaten with rods, lashed into obedience." Thus, her crusade for humane hospitals for the insane, which she began in 1841, was reaching a climax. After touring prisons, workhouses, almshouses, and private homes to gather evidence of appalling abuses, she made her case for state-supported care. Ultimately, she not only helped establish five hospitals in America, but also went to Europe where she successfully pleaded for human rights to Queen Victoria and the Pope.

This individual was a tireless crusader for the treatment of the mentally ill, was made the Superintendent of Nurses for the Union Army during the Civil War. After the war, she retired to an apartment in the first hospital that she had founded, in Trenton, New Jersey.The year 1841 also marked the beginning of the superintendence of Dr. John Galt at Eastern Lunatic Asylum, in Williamsburg, Virginia, the first publicly supported psychiatric hospital in America. Warehousing of the sick was primary; their care was not. Dr. Galt had many revolutionary ideas about treating the insane, based on his conviction that they had dignity. Among his enlightened approaches were the use of drugs, the introduction of "talk therapy" and advocating outplacement rather than lifelong stays.

In addition to the problems in asylums, prisons were filled to overflowing with everyone who gave offense to society from committing murder to spitting on the street. Men, women, children were thrown together in the most atrocious conditions. Something needed to be done — but what?”

“Very few black Virginians received any education at all until public schools were established during Reconstruction. Public schools in Virginia were segregated from the outset, apparently without much thought or debate, on the widely-held assumption that such an arrangement would reduce conflict. Of course, public schools were segregated in many other states, both North and South. When public schools were a novelty, most black Virginians were thrilled to have any free education at all. Moreover, they liked having schools of their own, not subject to white interference, in which black children would feel comfortable and not be taunted with racial epithets.

These schools, however, were at the mercy of the white-controlled state government for funding. Many whites did not want blacks to become educated, fearing they would challenge white supremacy and not be content with jobs working in the fields or in domestic service. Black schools therefore received far less financial support than did white schools. Black schools had fewer books, worse buildings, and less well paid teachers. Ramshackle, segregated schools marked black Virginians with a stigma of inferiority and the status of second-class citizenship that they would have to endure throughout their lives.”