Exam 12: An Age of Reform,1820-1840

The Declaration of Sentiments stated,"He has created a false public sentiment,by giving to the world a different code of morals for men and women,by which moral delinquencies which exclude women from society,are not only tolerated but deemed of little account in man." Which of the following is an example of this sentiment?

Abolitionists consciously identified their movement with the heritage of the American Revolution.

The abolitionist movement split in two in part because Abby Kelley had been appointed to an office within the American Anti-Slavery Society,which angered some men who believed it was wrong for a woman to occupy such a prominent position.

MATCHING Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Theodore Weld

The demand that women should enjoy the rights to regulate their own sexual activity and procreation and to be protected by the state against violence at the hands of their husbands challenged the notion that claims for justice,freedom,and individual rights should stop at the household's door.

The antislavery poet John Greenleaf Whittier compared reformer Abby Kelley to:

How did reformers reconcile their desire to create moral order with their quest to enhance personal freedom?

MATCHING Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Elijah Lovejoy

Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -gag rule

Explain how the religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening popularized the outlook known as perfectionism,which held that both individuals and society at large were capable of indefinite improvement.How did this idea of perfectionism relate to the various reform movements that arose in the antebellum period?

MATCHING Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Sarah Grimké

English writer Harriet Martineau criticized the idea of sending ex-slaves to another country or kingdom.

Analyze the Grimké-Beecher debate over the role of women in the abolitionist movement.How did each see women's place in society? With examples,explain whose views are more realized in today's world.

MATCHING Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Robert Owen

As women began to take an active role in abolition,public speaking for women became socially acceptable to most Americans.

MATCHING Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Horace Mann

The Seneca Falls Convention's Declaration of Sentiments was modeled after:

Abolitionists agreed with the labor movement's argument that workers were subjugated to "wage slavery."

By 1840,the temperance movement in the United States had:

The American Tract Society was focused on: