Block 4 Part 2 STAAR® Blitz: Reform Assignment

Helped gained support for the abolitionist movement

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Harriet Tubman
• Reform era
• Second Great Awakening

Time when people worked to improve society

• Reform era
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Harriet Tubman
• Second Great Awakening
• Seneca Falls Convention

Spiritual revivals, inspired people to become involved in reform efforts

• Second Great Awakening
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Harriet Tubman
• Reform era
• Seneca Falls Convention

Helped runaway slaves make it North along the Underground Railroad

• Harriet Tubman
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Reform era
• Second Great Awakening
• Seneca Falls Convention

Meeting organized for women’s suffrage and equality

• Seneca Falls Convention
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Harriet Tubman
• Reform era
• Second Great Awakening

Published The Liberator newspaper

• William Lloyd Garrison
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Harriet Tubman
• Reform era
• Second Great Awakening

Fought for women’s suffrage, helped write the Declaration of Sentiments

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Harriet Tubman
• Reform era
• Second Great Awakening
• Seneca Falls Convention

Part A Which statement explains how the work of Dorothea Dix impacted American society?

• The government distributed land to those with a criminal record.
• States passed harsher laws for those accused of crimes while in prison.
• Mental-health facilities were established to treat patients.
• Building codes were changed to improve the safety for inmates.

Part B Which statement provides evidence for the answer to Part A?

• “…many men and women who are chained or caged.”
• “Injustice is also done to convicts…”
• “…punishment that is not recognized by our statues and is what the criminal ought not to be called…”
• “The confinement of the criminal and the insane in the same building goes against the good order…”

How did the Second Great Awakening lead to the reform era?