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The Age of Reform
Ch. 14 8th
Term | Definition |
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teaching males and females together | coeducation |
the right to vote | suffrage |
reformer working to end slavery | abolitionist |
frontier camp meeting | revival |
drinking little or no alcohol | temperance |
A community based on a vision of the perfect society | utopia |
The name of the former enslaved African American who attracted huge crowed to hear her eloquent speeches | Sojourner Truth |
Wave of religious fervor in the 1800s | Second Great Awakening |
network of escape routes out of the South for enslaved people | Underground Railroad |
Famous person who helped runaway slaves reach freedom | Harriet Tubman |
wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
reformed care for mentally ill | Dorothea Dix |
demanded woman suffage | Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
North Star editor | Frederick Douglass |
Leader of education reform | Horace Mann |
First white abolitionist to call for emancipation of enslaved people | William Lloyd Garrison |
Location of the first woman's rights convention | New York |
Purchased his freedom from a slaveholder | Frederick Douglass |
Graduated first in class and became a doctor after being turned down for medical school | Elizabeth Blackwell |
founder of Troy Female Seminary | Emma Willard |
founder of Mount Holyoke | Mary Lyon |
Liberia | "place of Freedom" |
practiced civil disobedience | Henry David Thoreau |
Famous transcendentalists that were writers | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau |
formed when woman recognized their own oppression while fighting to end slavery | woman's rights movement |
Wrote the narrative poem Song of Hiawatha | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
The most controversial issue at the Seneca Falls convention | suffrage |