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Americans Fight for Reform

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    Chapter 16
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  • What is reform?
    reform is change for the better or improvement
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  • What did public schools look like in the early 1800's?
    Most schools had one room with all different grade levels
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  • What did Horace Mann want reformed?
    public schools
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  • What did Mary Lyon want reformed?
    education for women and girls
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  • Who opened the first free school for Deaf children in America?
    Thomas Gallaudet
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  • What are abolitionists?
    abolitionists were people who fought to end slavery in America
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  • How did Frederick Douglass fight to end slavery?
    He gave antislavery speeches to large crowds
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  • What did Dortothea Dix help reform?
    She helped reform prisons and helped people with mental illness
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  • Did children have to go to school in the early 1800s?
    no, there were no laws that required children to go to school
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  • Name THREE types of reform that you learned about in chapter 16
    education reform, women's rights, prison reform, abolitionists movement
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  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton fought for the right for women to do what?
    Vote
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  • In 1848, what happened in Seneca Falls?
    The first large meeting about women's rights
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