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chpt 14 quiz 1
social studies vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Utopia | new communities based on a vision of a perfect society |
| Revival | meeting conducted by a preacher to arouse religious emotions |
| Temperence | movement that pushed for ending alcohol drinking everywhere in America |
| Second Great Awakening | in the early 1800's a wave of religious fervor spread through the nation |
| Horace Mann | A lawyer, who became the head of the Massachusetts Board of Education; he worked to improve the education of both students and teachers |
| Underground Railroad | A system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North and Canada |
| American Colonization Society | formed in 1817 by a group of white Virginians who worked to free slaves gradually by buying them them from slave owners in order to send them back to Africa to start new lives |
| Abolitionist | a person who wants to end slavery |
| Suffrage | getting the right to vote |
| Lucretia Mott | a Quaker woman who gave lectures, called for temperance, peace, worker's rights and abolition |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | she organized and worked with Susan B. Anthony to fight for women's rights |
| Seneca Falls Convention | first meeting of about 200 women and 40 men to organize and fight for women's rights |
| Declaration of Sentiments | first meeting of about 200 women and 40 men to organize and fight for women's rights |
| Susan B. Anthony | women's rights leader who worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to give women the right to vote |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | abolitionist who wrote the novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, which convinced many northerners to oppose slavery |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | accepted by Geneva College in New York; went on to be one of the first successful female doctors |
| Carry Nation | crusader for temperance; she went to saloons with an ax and broke bottles and kegs |
| Reform Movements | an attempt to fix the problems in society to make it better |
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