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Unit 9 Reform Vocab
| 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 began in the Northeastern US and led to growth of reform movements |
| Charlels Finney | preacher in the Second Great Awakening that held religious revivals |
| Temparace | an organized effort to end alcohol abuse and the problems created by it |
| Prohibtion | a total ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol |
| Sufrage | Right to vote |
| Dorthay Dix | Massachusetts school teacher that worked for prison reform |
| Horace Mann | Leader of education reform, started the first Board of Education in Massachusetts |
| Senca Falls Convetion | 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 |
| Eliziabeth Cady Slanton | organized and lead the Seneca Falls Convention |
| Lucretia Mott | organized and led the Seneca Falls Convention |
| Sojourner Truth | eader 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 |
| Abotlion | The movemnt to end slavery |
| radical | Favoring extreme charges Abolitionists |
| Abolitionists | reformers who wanted to end slavery |
| Willam Loyd Garrison | abolitionist that started an anti-slavery newspaper called The Liberator |
| Fredrick Douglas | African Amercan Abolotion that gave speeches, wrote a aoutobiography and a 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 |
| Harrit Tubman | Famous conductor of the undergriund 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 Douglas published |