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SFDS Chapter 14
SFDS Chapter 14 Age of Reformation
| Key Item | Definition |
|---|---|
| Transcendentalists | A group of New England writers who stressed the relationship between human beings and nature, spiritual things over materials things, and the importance of the individual conscience. |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Found the Abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, wanted no slaves and was the founder of the New England Antislavery Society. |
| Abolitionists | People who wanted to end slavery. They would work together to work to end it. |
| Differences in Education | Usually school was only for the white, upper class. Women were not allowed to attend certain schools. If they did go to school it was only to learn the arts and other types “woman” skills. African Americans had very little education opportunities. As |
| Temperance Movement | The movement in which the people of the United States wanted to ban the sale, consumption and production of alcohol. It was felt that alcohol was the root of all the problems in the United States. |
| Dorothea Dix | Made life work about educating the public about poor conditions of the mentally ill and the people in prison. She was a school teacher. |
| The Underground Railroad | Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglas were 2 African Americans that used the route for their freedom and then helped others use it. A route to freedom. A system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to |
| Prejudice | An unfair opinion not based on facts somewhat racist |
| Harriet Tubman | Born as a slave in Maryland. Worked in plantation fields until she was 30 years old. She made her break for freedom to the North with the help of the Underground Railroad. Courageous made 19 trips back into the South to help other slaves reach freedom. |
| Frederick Douglas | Succeeded in fleeing from slavery. Considered leader of the Abolitionist Movement. Fled to the North. |
| Discrimination | Unfair treatment of a group. Unequal treatment because of a person’s race, religion, ethnic background, or place of birth. |
| Horace Mann | A lawyer and head of Board of Education in 1832. Helped find the nations first states supported normal school. |
| Thomas Gallaudet | Developed a method to educate the hearing impaired. He opened the Hartford School for the Deafin Connecticut in 1817. |
| Revivals | A series of meetings conducted by a preacher to arouse religious emotions. |
| Lyman Beecher | A Connecticut minister and crusader against the use of alcohol. Wanted to protect society against the evils of alcohol. |
| Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe | He helped the blind by inventing brail that he made as books. And created the Perkins Institute, which was in Boston. Brail is raised up letters that can be read with the fingers. |
| Second Great Awakening | A wave of religious fervor that swept the nation in the early 1800's. Inspired many people to become involved in social work and social reform movements. |
| American Colonization Society | Created by white Virginians in 1816. It was to raise money to purchase enslaved African Americans to send them to Liberia to start a new life away from slavery. |
| Liberia | Place of freedom in latin. |
| Sarah and Angelina Grimke | Two sisters from South Carolina who freed their slaves and spoke out all over the country against slavery. |
| Sojourner Truth | Escaped from slavery in 1826 in New York. Born Isabella Baumfree. She spoke at abolitionist rallies and at rallies for women's rights. |
| Lucretia Mott | A Quaker, gave lectures calling for temperance, peace, workers' rights, and abolition. One of the women who began the Women's movement. Helped organize the Seneca Falls convention. |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| Seneca Falls Convention | Took place in Seneca Falls, NY. 200 women and 40 men attended a rally calling for women's right to vote. Issued the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions. |
| Women's Rights movement | Suffrage, coeducation, trades, professions and business. |
| coeducation | the teaching of boys and girls together |
| Susan B. Anthony | Worked for women's rights and temperance movement. Wanted colling training for girls and equal pay. Worked with Stanton to win the right to vote for women. |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | One of the original founders of the women's movement. |
| Education for women | Women were expected to learn to care for the family. Some women like Mary Lyon will create seminaries where women will be able to study subjects like math, history, geography and physics. |
| Marriage and Family Laws | Improvement happened in property ownership, child custody, and divorce. |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | First woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. |
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