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Reforming society
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Second Great Awakening | late 1700s-early 1800s movement of Christian renewal |
| Charles Grandison Finney | minister who challenged some traditional beliefs |
| temperance movement | movement to encourage people not to drink alcohol |
| Lyman Beecher | minister who spoke against both Charles Grandison Finney and alcohol consumption |
| Dorothea Dix | prison reformer |
| common-school movement | movement to have all children, regardless of background, taught in a common place |
| Horace Mann | education reformer |
| Catherine Beecher | founder of all-female academy in Hartford, Connecticut |
| Thomas Gallaudet | education reformer for the hearing impaired |