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Reform Movements
US History Mid-Term
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| transcendentalism | a movement in nineteenth-century American literature and thought |
| Prohibition | measure designed to reduce drinking by eliminating the businesses that manufactured, distributed, and sold alcoholic beverages |
| Henry David Thoreau | an American writer and poet |
| Horace Mann | petitioned for public education and disability schools |
| Abolition | to get rid of |
| Colonization | To establish a colony |
| Underground Railroad | an escape route for slaves to leave the southern states and head to the northern states for freedom. |
| Frederick Douglass | was an abolitionist for the north and fought to free slaves |
| Harriet Tubman | is one of the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors." |
| Suffrage | is the civil right to vote |
| Seneca Falls | on July 19 to July 20 1848 the first women's right convemtion was held in seneca falls |