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Unit 9 Vocab
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reform | 1.organized attempts to improve conditions of society 2. effect of the 2nd Great Awakening |
| Second Great Awakening | a religious revival that was in the early 1800s |
| Charles Finney | preacher of the Second Great Awakening |
| Temperance | an organized effort to end alcohol abuse |
| Prohibition | a total ban on the sale of alcohol |
| Suffrage | the right to vote |
| Dorothea Dix | Massachusetts school teacher that worked for prison reform |
| Horace Mann | leader of education reform |
| Seneca Falls Convention | convention held in New York 1848 to raise awareness for womens' rights |
| Susan B. Anthony | leader in the womens' rights suffrage movement |
| 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 womens' rights movements, former slave |
| Declarations of Sentiments | Document written at Seneca Falls that listed injustices to women by men |
| abolition | the movement to end slavery |
| radical | favoring extreme change |
| abolitionists | reformers who wanted to end slavery |
| William Lloyd Garrison | abolitionist that started The Liberator (newspaper) |
| Fredrick Douglas | African American abolitionist that gave speeches, wrote an autobiography, and made a newspaper called the North Star |
| Elihu Embree | abolitionist from Tennessee that started an anti slavery newspaper |
| The Emancipator | antislavery newspaper established by Elihu Embree |
| Harriet Tubman | famous conductor of the Underground Railroad |
| Underground Railroad | a series of escape routes for runaway slaves |
| The Liberator | Name of the antislavery newspaper the William Lloyd Garrison |
| The North Star | Antislavery newspaper the Fredrick Douglas published |