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Unit 9 Reform
Question | Answer |
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reform | organized attempts to improve conditions of life |
reform | an effect of the second great awakening |
second great awakening | a religous revival in the early 1800s that began in the Northeastern US and led to growth of reform movements |
charles finney | preacher in the second great awakening that held religious revivals |
temperance | an organized effort to end alcohol abuse and the problems created by it |
prohibition | a total ban on the sal and consumption of alcohol |
suffrage | the right to vote |
dorothea dix | massachusetts school teacher that worked for prison reform |
horace mann | leader of education reform, started the first board of education in massachusetts |
seneca falls convention | convention held in new york in 1848 to raise awareness for women's rights, wrote the declaration of sentiments |
susan b anthony | leader in the women's suffrage movement after the civil war; gave speeches and voted illegally |
elizabeth cady stanton | organized and led the seneca falls convention |
lucretia mott | organized and led the seneca falls convention |
sojourner truth | leader in the abolitionist and women's rights movement, former slave, gave speeches like "ain't i a women?" |
declaration of sentiments | document written at the seneca falls convetion that listed injustices to women by men, modeled after the declaration of independence |
abolition | the movement to end slavery |
radical | favoring extreme change |
abolitionists | reformers who wanted to end slavery |
william lloyd garrison | abolitionist that started an anti-slavery newspaper called the liberator |
the emancipator | anti-slavery newspaper es |
frederick douglass | african america abolitionist that gave speeches, wrote an autobiography and an antislavery newspaper called the North star |
elihu embree | abolitionist from tennessee that started an anti slavery newspaper called the emancipator |
the Emancipator | anti slavery newspaper established by elihu embree in tennessee |
harriet tubman | famous conductor of the underground railroad |
underground railroad | a series of escape routes that helped runaway slaves reach northern states or canada |
the liberator | name of the antisalvery newspaper that william lloyd garrison published |
the north star | antislavery newspaper that frederick douglass published |