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Chapter 14 Vocab.
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Revival | A series of meetings conducted by a preacher to arouse religious emotions |
| Utopia | Community based on a vision of a perfect society sought by reformers |
| Temperance | The use of little or no alcoholic drink |
| Normal School | A two-year school for training high school graduates as teachers |
| Transcendentalist | Any of a group of New England writers who stressed the relationship between human beings and nature, spiritual things over material things, and the importance of the individual conscience |
| Civil Disobedience | Refusal to obey laws that are considered unjust as a nonviolent way to press for changes |
| Abotilitionist | A person who strongly favors doing away with slavery |
| Underground Railroad | A system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North |
| Suffrage | The right to vote |
| Coeducation | The teaching of a male and female students together |