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Unit 9 Voc
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Reform | organized attempts to improve conditions of life |
| Reform | an effect of the 2nd Great Awakening |
| 2nd 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 2nd 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 |
| 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, 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 | 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 TN that started an anti-slavery newspaper called The Emancipator |
| The Emancipator | Anti-slavery newspaper established by Elihu Embree in TN |
| 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 Frederick Douglass published |