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Chapter 12:An Age of Reform

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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  
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revival   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   total ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol  
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Dorothea Dix   Massachusetts schoolteacher 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   man from Massachusetts who took up educational reform  
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abolitionists   reformers who wanted to abolish (end) slavery  
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Fredrick Douglas   born into slavery, famous and powerful abolitionist speaker  
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Harriett Tubman   former slave who escorted more than 300 people to freedom via the secret Underground Railroad  
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women's suffrage   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 American society  
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Seneca Falls Convention   gathering formed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott to discuss the social, civil, and religious rights of women  
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Transcendentalism   a movement that sought to explore the relationship between humans and nature through emotions rather than through reason; originated in the United States  
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Romanticism   artistic movement originating in Europe that emphasized placing greater value on nature, emotions, and imagination rather than reason  
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Ralph Waldo Emerson   leading transcendentalist and stressed individualism  
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individualism   the unique importance of each individual  
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Henry David Thoreau   transcendentalist who took up Emerson's challenge; spent 2 years in nature at Walden Pond; encouraged civil disobedience  
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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   author of Moby-Dick  
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Nathaniel Hawthorne   author of The Scarlet Letter  
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Louisa May Alcott   author of Little Women  
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Underground Railroad   network of people who secretly helped slaves reach freedom  
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