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Unit 9 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Reform | organized attempts to improve conditions of life. |
| Reform | an effect of the Second Great Awakening. |
| Second Great Awakening | a religous revival in the early 1800's that began in the Northeastern US and led to growth of reform movements. |
| Charles Finney | preacher in the Second Great Awakening that held religous revivals. |
| Temperance | an organized effort to end alcohol abuse and problems created by it. |
| Prohibition | a total ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol. |
| Suffrage | the right to vote. |
| Dorothea Dix | Massachusetts 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 Woman?" |
| Declaration of Sentiments | Documents written at the Seneca Falls Convention that listed injustices to women by men, modeled after the Declaration of Independence. |
| Abolition | movement to end slavery |
| radical | favoring extreme changes |
| 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 newpaper called the The North Star. |
| Elihu Embree | abolitionist in Tennessee that started an anti-slavery newspaper called The Emancipator. |
| The Emancipator | Anti-slavery newpaper established by Eihu 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 anti-slavery newspaper that William Llyod Garrison published |
| The North Star | Antislavery newspaper that Frederick Douglass published |