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Unit 9 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Reform | organized attempts to improve conditions of life |
Reform | an effect of the Second Great Awakening |
Second Great Awakening | a religious revival in the early 1800's that began in the Northeastern US and led to the growth of reform movements |
Charles Finney | preacher in the Second Great Awakening that held religious revivals |
Temperance | an organized effort to end alcohol abuse and the problems created by it |
Prohibition | a total ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol |
Suffrage | the right to vote |
Dorothea Dix | Massachusetts school teacher that worked for prison reform |
Horace Mann | leader of education reform, started the first Board of Education in Massachusetts |
Seneca Falls Convention | convention held in New York in 1848 to raise awareness for women's rights, wrote the Declaration of Sentiments |
Susan B. Anthony | leader in the women's suffrage movement after the Civil War, gave speeches and voted illegally |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | organized and led the Seneca Falls Convention |
Lucretia Mott | organized and led the Seneca Falls Convention |
Sojourner Truth | leader in the abolitionist and women's rights movement, former slave, gave speeches like "Ain't I a Woman?" |
Declaration of Sentiments | document written at the Seneca Falls Convention that listed injustices to women by men, modeled after the Declaration of Independence |
abolition | the movement to end slavery |
radical | favoring extreme charge |
Abolitionists | reformers who wanted to end slavery |
William Lloyd Garrison | abolitionist that started an anti-slavery newspaper called the Liberator |
Frederick Douglass | African American abolitionist that gave speeches, wrote an autobiography and an antislavery newspaper called the North Star |
Elihu Embree | abolitionist from Tennessee that started an anti-slavery newspaper called The Emancipator |
The Emancipator | Anti-slavery newspaper established by Elihu Embree in Tennessee |
Harriet Tubman | famous conductor of the Underground Railroad |
Underground Railroad | a series of escape routes that helped runaway slaves reach northern states or Canada |
The Liberator | Name of the antislavery newspaper that William Lloyd Garrison published |
The North Star | Antislavery newspaper that Frederick Douglass published |