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Unit 9 SS Vocab
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 begin in the Northeastern US and led to growth of reform movements |
| Charles Finney | Preacher in the Second Great Awakening that held religious revival |
| 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 | 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 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 woman'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 change |
| 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" |
| 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 | Anti-Slavery newspaper that Frederick Douglas published |
| Suzy B. Anthony | Leader in the women’s suffrage movement after the Civil War; gave speeches and voted illegally |
| The Emancipator | Anti-slavery newspaper established by Elihu Embree in Tennessee |