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CH 12 Vocabulary
Ch 12 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Social Reform | organized attempts to improve conditions of life. |
| Predestination | the idea that god decided the fate of a person's soul even before birth. |
| Charles Finney | held the first of many religious revivals in 1826. |
| Revival | a huge outdoor religious meeting. |
| Temperance Movement | an organized effort to end alcohol abuse and the problems created by it. |
| Prohibition | a total ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol. |
| Dorothea Dix | Massachusetts school teacher who took up the cause of prison reform. |
| Public Schools | free schools supported by taxes. |
| Horace Mann | (Massachusetts) took the lead in education reform |
| Abolitionists | reformers who wanted to abolish, or end slavery. |
| William Lloyd Garrison | a quaker who strongly opposed the use of violence to end slavery. |
| Frederick Douglas | The most powerful speaker for abolitionism. |
| Harriet Tubman | escaped from slavery and escorted more than 300 people to freedom via the Underground Railroad. |
| Sojourner Truth | Born a slave, wasn't able to read, but her words inspired the crowds that heard her for abolitionism. |
| Lucretia Mott | A quaker who spent years working in the antislavery movement. |
| Elizabeth Cady Staton | abolitionist, who believed women should have equal rights as men. |
| Women's Suffrage | the right of women to vote. |
| Women's rights movement | an organized effort to improve the political, legal, and economic status of women in America. |
| Susan B. Anthony | founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869, w/ Elizabeth Cady Staton. |
| Transcendentalism | a movement that sought to explore the relationship between humans and nature through emotions rather than reason. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | the leading transcendentalist who questioned the value of material goods. |
| Individualism | the unique importance of each individual. |
| Henry David Thoreau | urged people to live simply, took up emerson's challenge. |
| Civil Disobedience | the idea that people should peacefully disobey unjust laws if their consciences demand it. |
| Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne | men who changed the tone of American Literature. |
| Louisa May Alcott | presented a gentler view of New England life. |
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