#11 American Reformers
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This was the first state to allow women the right to vote.
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Wyoming
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This is the year that women in the United States won the right to vote in state and national elections.
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1920
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This man was one of the most active leaders n the movement for better education. He felt that successful self-government meant educating all the citizens.
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Horace Mann
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This man established the first institution for deaf-mutes. This was done in 1817.
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Thomas Gallaudet
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This woman was a leader in prison, poorhouse, and mental institution reform.
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Dorothea Dix
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This organization was formed to encourage moderation in the drinking of alcoholic beverages.
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the American TemperanceUnion
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(true or false) Free schools had a problem with not being able to afford to pay well-trained teachers, being overcrowded, and teaching limited subjects.
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true
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(true or false) Public acceptance of women's right to vote went very quickly.
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false
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The word "temperance" means this.
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moderation
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This is the state in which the first teacher-training college was founded.
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Massachusetts
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This is the city in which the first free public high school was opened in 1821.
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Boston
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This type of school is one tht accepts both women and men.
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coeducational school
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In 1833, this college, in Ohio, became the first coeducational college in the U.S.
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Oberlin College
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(true or false) During the colonial period, if a woman worked in a factory, her husband could not be paid the wages that she earned.
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false
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In 1837, this woman started a school in Massachusetts where women could get a higher education. This school later became the highly respected Mount Holyoke College.
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Mary Lyon
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This is a document that came from the Seneca Falls Convention that listed some of the common injustices against women. The women at this convention wanted increased legal and political rights for women.
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the Declaration of Sentiments
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(true or false) In the 1890s, a few new states in the west permitted women to vote.
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true
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Gradually, women gained the right to own property and to enter professions other than this one.
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teaching
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Most people saw no need to educate girls beyond this grade in the early 1800s.
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eigth grade
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This person discovered a way to print books with raised type to help blind people to read.
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Samuel Gridley Howe
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In the early 1800s, free schools depended mainly on this for support.
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charity
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This was the year that Wyoming gave women the right to vote. This was the first state to do so.
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1889
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In 1814, this woman started a school for girls at Middlebury, Vermont. A few years later, she started another school for girls at Troy, New York.
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Emma Willard
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It was in this city in 1848, that Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized a women's rights convention.
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Seneca Falls, New York
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(true or false) In the early1800s, women had the right to own property.
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false
