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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Charles Finley | held the first of many religious revivals |
| Dorothea Dix | organized attempts to improve conditions of life |
| prohibition | a total ban on the sale and consumption pf alcohol |
| Horace Mann | took the lead in education reform |
| temperance movement | an organized effort to end alcohol abuse and problems created by it |
| revival | is a huge outdoor religious meeting |
| abolitionist | reformers who wanted to end slavery |
| William Lloyd garrison | strongly proved the use of violence to end slavery |
| Fredrick Douglass | had broken a law by learning to read |
| Harriet Tubman | escaped slavery, escorted over 300 people to freedom via underground railroad |
| sojourner truth | her words inspired the crowds |
| Lucretia Mott | a Quaker, working for antislavery women to take public role that other religions |
| Elizabeth caddy Stanton | advanced women's rights |
| women's suffrage | the right of women to vote |
| women right movement | organized effort to improve the legal economics states of women in American society |
| Susan b. Anthony | close ally of Stanton |
| transcendentatlism | a movement that sought to explore the relation ship between the humans and nature |
| individualism | the euneque importance of each individual |
| civil disobedience | |
| Charles Finley | held the first of many religious revivals |
| social reform | organized attempts to improve conditions of life |
| Dorothea Dix | Massachusetts school teacher, was one of those who took up the cause of prison reform |
| prohibition | a total ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol |
| Horace Mann | took the lead in education reform |
| temperance movement | an organized effort to end alcohol abuse and the problems caused by it |
| revival | is a huge outdoor religious meeting |
| abolitionists | reformers who wanted to end slavery |
| William Lloyd garrison | strongly approved the use of violence to end slavery |
| Fredric Douglas | had broken a law by learning ow to read |
| Harriet Tubman | escaped slaver, escorted over 300 people to freedom via under ground railroad |
| sojourner truth | her words inspired others |
| Lucretia Mott | a Quaker, working for antislavery women to take public role that other religious |
| Elizabeth caddy | advanced women's rights |
| women's suffrage | the right for women to vote |
| women's rights movement | organized effort to improve the legal economic status of women in American society |
| Susan b Anthony | close ally of Stanton |
| transcendentalism | a movement that sought to explore the relationship between humans and nature |
| individualism | the unique importance of each person |
| civil disobedience | the idea that people should peacefully disobey unjust laws if their conscience demand it |