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UNIT VI
Reform Movements
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Second Great Awakening | Protestant religious revival that attracted hundreds of new converts. |
| Revival | An event held by churches to renew religious feelings or convert non-followers of that faith. |
| Temperance | abstinence from alcohol |
| Frederick Douglass | Leading abolitionist who was an escaped slave and published The North Star (first African-American newspaper). |
| William Lloyd Garrison | A journalist and abolitionist who published the Liberator (abolitionist newspaper). |
| Women's Rights | Rights that promote a position of legal and social equality of women with men |
| Lucretia Mott | She was a quaker, abolitionist and helped write the Declaration of Sentiments during the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention. |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Elizabeth Cady Stanton formulated the agenda for woman's rights and the Seneca Falls Convention. |
| Seneca Falls Convention | Fought for the social, civil and religious rights of women |
| Suffrage | The right to vote . |
| Sojournor Truth | African American abolitionist and women's rights activist best-known for her speech on racial inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?" |