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The Age of Reform
Ch. 14 8th
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |