Reform Movement Review

Reform Movement Review

Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.

Describe the expansionist movement: Mexico became independent from Spain and America saw this as a chance to take land such as Texas, New Mexico, and California

Describe Manifest Destiny and what people used it to justify: it was a term used to describe how America was supposed to own all of North America and with this movement Americans begin moving to west and expanding America

Describe the Temperance Movement: During the expansion more crime, and poverty started happening and people blamed alcohol and temperance means drinking in moderation which some didn’t want and some wanted prohibition

Describe the Abolition Movement: in the early 1800’s the cotton industry grew as well as slavery, and then many people started speaking out against it on moral grounds

Describe the Education Reform Movement: There weren’t public schools in colonial times so many did not go to school, Reformers wanted to change this and start a school system from tax money, Horace Mann started school board in Massachusetts

Describe the Reform Movement for Women’s rights including the Seneca Falls Conference: Women could only speak out privately to their husbands; this started to change after women started taking roles in abolitionists and religion movements; in Seneca Falls Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others organized first woman’s rights convention, there they adopted a Declaration of Sentiments on woman’s rights