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Unit 9 Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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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 1800s that began in the Northeastern US and led to 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. |
Dorthea 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 lead 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 Women?" |
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 change. |
Abolitionists | Reformers who wanted to end slavery. |
William Lloyd Garrison | Abolitionist that started an anti-slavery newspaper called "The Liberator". |
Fredrick 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 Fredrick Douglass published. |