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Social Studies

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paradise   utopia  
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a minister from Connecticut who wanted to ban alcohol   Lyman Beecher  
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large gatherings held in tents   revivals  
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little or no drinking   temperance  
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formed in 1826   American Society for the Promotion of Temperance  
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later named the Abstinence Society   American Society for the Promotion of Temperance  
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first state to pass a law banning alcohol   Maine  
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leader of the educational reform   Horace Mann  
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4 changes Mann made   1. school year is 6 months 2. improved curriculum 3. doubled teachers' salaries 4. trained teachers more efficiently  
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a school for training high school graduates as teachers   normal school  
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3 principles of public education   1. school should be free and supported by taxes 2. teachers should be trained 3. children have to go to school  
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school that admitted both African Americans and women   Oberlin College of Ohio  
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_______ opened ___________, the first permanent women's college   Mary Lyon, Mount Holyoke  
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first college for African Americans   Ashmun Institute  
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helped hearing impaired and opened Hartford School for Deaf   Thomas Gallaudet  
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helped visually impaired and opened Perkins Institute   Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe  
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fought for better treatment of mentally ill people   Dorothea Dix  
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people who stressed the relationship between humans and nature and the importance of the individual conscience   Transcendentalists  
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refusing to obey laws that are thought to be unjust   civil disobedience  
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wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin   Harriet Beecher Stowe  
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the first person to prove scientifically that alcohol abuse was damaging to the body   Dr. Benjamin Rush  
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reformers who wanted to end slavery   abolitionists  
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a group of Virginians that bought slaves and sent them back to Africa   American Colonization Society  
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the first white abolitionist to call for the immediate freeing of slaves   William Lloyd Garrison  
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founded The Liberator   William Lloyd Garrison  
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sisters who were born into a slaveholding family but were abolitionists   Angelina and Sarah Grimke  
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wrote American Slavery As It Is   Angelina Grimke and her husband  
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African Americans in the North   250,000  
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________ wrote ___________, the first African American newspaper   Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm, Freedom's Journal  
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local organized meetings   chapters  
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writes impassioned pleas to end slavery   David Walker  
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the most widely known African American abolitionist   Frederick Douglass  
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edited the North Star   Frederick Douglass  
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a network of escape routes out of the South   Underground Railroad  
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traveled from Richmond to Philadelphia in a crate   Henry "Box" Brown  
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the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad   Harriet Tubman  
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3 things the Underground Railroad did   1. helped slaves escape from the South 2. gave hope to those suffering in slavery 3. gave abolitionists a way to help  
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2 reasons the Northerners were against abolitionism   1. African Americans could never blend into society 2. African Americans would take jobs away from whites by working for lower pay  
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killed after his office was destroyed four times   Elijah Lovejoy  
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reasons the Southerners wer against abolitionism   1. slaves were needed for economical progress 2. slave labor let whites reach a high level of culture and civilization 3. slaves were treated well 4. slaves were better off under white care  
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people who work for women's rights   feminists  
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a Quaker who helped organize the Seneca Falls convention   Lucretia Mott  
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organized the Female Anti-Slavery Society   Lucretia Mott  
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started the first organized women's rights movement   Elizabeth Cady Stanton  
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helped Lucretia Mott organize the Seneca Falls convention   Elizabeth Cady Stanton  
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wrote speeches for Susan B. Anthony   Elizabeth Cady Stanton  
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this was issued at the Seneca Falls convention   Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions  
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3 things women wanted   1. choose their career 2. suffrage 3. coeducation  
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the right to vote   suffrage  
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read speeches written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton   Susan B. Anthony  
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took care of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's kids   Susan B. Anthony  
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wanted equal pay and coeducation   Susan B. Anthony  
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the teaching of boys and girls together   coeducation  
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founded the Troy Female Seminary   Emma Willard  
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the first state that gave women the right to vote   Wyoming  
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the first state to allow women to divorce their husbands if they were abusing alcohol   Indiana  
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turned down by 20 schools except Geneva College   Elizabeth Blackwell  
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first woman to receive a medical degree in the US or Europe   Elizabeth Blackwell  
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founded the New York Infirmary for Women and Children   Elizabeth Blackwell  
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became the first ordained female minister in the US   Antoinette Brown  
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a librarian who taught herself astronomy   Maria Mitchell  
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discovered a comet   Maria Mitchell  
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became a professor of asrtronomy at Vassar College   Maria Mitchell  
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first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences   Maria Mitchell  
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editor of Godey's Lady's Book   Sarah Hale  
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