Ch 12 Vocab
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| Social Reform | organized attempts to improve conditions of life.
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| Predestination | the idea that god decided the fate of a person's soul even before birth.
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| Charles Finney | held the first of many religious revivals in 1826.
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| Revival | a huge outdoor religious meeting.
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| Temperance Movement | an organized effort to end alcohol abuse and the problems created by it.
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| Prohibition | a total ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol.
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| Dorothea Dix | Massachusetts school teacher who took up the cause of prison reform.
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| Public Schools | free schools supported by taxes.
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| Horace Mann | (Massachusetts) took the lead in education reform
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| Abolitionists | reformers who wanted to abolish, or end slavery.
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| William Lloyd Garrison | a quaker who strongly opposed the use of violence to end slavery.
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| Frederick Douglas | The most powerful speaker for abolitionism.
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| Harriet Tubman | escaped from slavery and escorted more than 300 people to freedom via the Underground Railroad.
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| Sojourner Truth | Born a slave, wasn't able to read, but her words inspired the crowds that heard her for abolitionism.
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| Lucretia Mott | A quaker who spent years working in the antislavery movement.
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| Elizabeth Cady Staton | abolitionist, who believed women should have equal rights as men.
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| Women's Suffrage | the right of women to vote.
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| Women's rights movement | an organized effort to improve the political, legal, and economic status of women in America.
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| Susan B. Anthony | founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869, w/ Elizabeth Cady Staton.
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| Transcendentalism | a movement that sought to explore the relationship between humans and nature through emotions rather than reason.
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson | the leading transcendentalist who questioned the value of material goods.
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| Individualism | the unique importance of each individual.
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| Henry David Thoreau | urged people to live simply, took up emerson's challenge.
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| Civil Disobedience | the idea that people should peacefully disobey unjust laws if their consciences demand it.
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| Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne | men who changed the tone of American Literature.
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| Louisa May Alcott | presented a gentler view of New England life.
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