Jumpstart Pick up your folder, the Unit 5

vocabulary list #3, and the Unit 5 vocabulary practice #3.

Sit in your assigned seat.

Start of the Abolition MovementFind the answer for each question in your reading and highlight it.1. Why did early abolitionists believe that slavery had

to be ended gradually?2. What was the compromise over slavery reached at

the Constitutional Convention?3. Why did white Southerners argue that slaves were

better off than Northern workers?4. What other arguments did they use to justify

slavery?5. Why did some people in the North oppose abolition?

Reform for WomenFind the answer for each question in your reading and highlight it.1. What two causes did both Lucretia Mott and

Elizabeth Cady Stanton support?2. What three things did the Declaration of Sentiments

and Resolutions call for/demand?3. Why was the Seneca Falls Convention important to

the women’s rights movement?4. Why was Susan B. Anthony an important women’s

reformer?5. What important events advanced women’s rights

after 1890?

Helping People with Disabilities and EducationFind the answer for each question in your reading and highlight it.1. Highlight the significance of these individuals in

helping people with disabilities: Thomas Gallaudet Samuel Gridley Howe

2. What did Dorothea Dix find when she visited prisons?3. What were the problems with education?4. Which groups were denied access to education, and

why?5. How did Horace Mann improve education?6. Why was Oberlin College unique?

Additions At the bottom of “The Start of Abolition,” add

the following people: William Lloyd Garrison Grimke Sisters Frederick Douglass John Brown Harriet Beecher Stowe

At the bottom of “Reform for Women,” add: Movement split between those who worked for

change at state level and those working at the national level.

Jumpstart Pick up the reading on “Religion and

Reform” as well as your folder. Get out your spiral/journal. Glue the

reading into your spiral. If you do not have your journal today, get out a sheet of notebook paper and glue today’s reading to the paper so it can go in your folder.

Religion and ReformFind the answer for each question in your reading and highlight it.

1. What did people do at revivals?2. How did the Second Great

Awakening revivals encourage the reform movements of the time?

3. What is temperance?4. How successful was this movement?

Abolition Description/Goals

Write in under Abolition on your chart: Believed slavery

was morally wrong and wanted it ended.

Key Players in AbolitionJohn Brown Led an

unsuccessful raid on Harpers Ferry

Goal was to arm slaves for a violent uprising

Key Players in AbolitionFrederick Douglass Former slave,

activist, and author

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass was a firsthand account of the cruelty of slavery

Key Players in AbolitionWilliam Lloyd Garrison Publisher of The

Liberator

Influenced many to join the cause

Also founded the New England Antislavery Society

Key Players in AbolitionHarriet Beecher Stowe Author of Uncle

Tom’s Cabin

Bestselling novel depicting the horrors of slavery

Moved many in the North against slavery

Women’s Rights Description/Goals

Write in under Women’s Suffrage on your chart: Women (and men)

seeking various rights including voting

Key Players in Abolition/Women’s RightsSojourner Truth Speaker and

writer for BOTH movements

Her most famous speech is titled “Ain’t I a Woman?” (1851)

Key Players in Women’s RightsSusan B. Anthony Activist and

speaker

In an act of civil disobedience, she voted in 1872 and was arrested

Key Players in Women’s RightsElizabeth Cady Stanton Writer and

organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention

Supported not only suffrage, but a variety of women’s rights issues