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Glencoe Chapter 14 1
Social Reform
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Utopia | Communities based on a vision of a perfect |
| Revival | A series of meetings conducted by a preacher to arouse religious emotions |
| Temperance | Drinking little or no alcohol |
| Normal School | A school for training high-school graduates as teachers |
| transcendtalist | Any of a group of New England writers who stressed the relationship between human beings and nature, spiritual things over material things, and the importance of the individual con-science |
| Social reformers attempted to | improve American life and education. |
| People with disabilities were also helped | during social reform. |
| Religious and social reform occured | in the early 1800s. |
| The Second Great Awakening was in the | early 1800s and began with preaching and revivals. |
| Mrs.Riley is | an awesome teacher:) |
| Horace Mann | improved school curriculum, doubled teacher's salaries, and developed better ways of training teachers. |
| By 1850, most states said school should be | free, supported by taxes, teachers should be trained, and children should be required to attend school. |
| In 1833, Oberlin College, in Ohio, | admitted women and African Americans. |
| Thomas Gallaudet | developed a method to teach the hearing impaired in 1817. |
| Dorthea Dix | found prisoners living in inhumane conditions that had done nothing wrong, they were just mentally ill. |
| I love | History |
| Mrs. Dix made it her life's mission to | educate the public about poor living conditions for prisoners and the mentally ill. |