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Social Reform Movements in the Pre-Civil War Era

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Irish immigration   Many Irish immigrated to US after the potato famine left many families without food; suffered much discrimination from others and lived in poor conditions in Northern cities  
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Nativists   Americans who opposed immigration and felt threatened by immigrant’s religion and culture; formed the Know-Nothing political party  
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tenements   poorly designed apartment building that housed large number of immigrants  
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Second Great Awakening   renewed interest in Christianity that led Americans to be interested in helping others thru various social reform movements  
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Temperance Movement   urged men to stop drinking in order to take better care of their families  
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Common School Movement   wanted all children taught in a common place, regardless of background; the beginning of public education  
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Horace Mann   leader of Common School/Public Education movement; considered education "the great equalizer"  
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Seneca Falls Convention   the first public meeting about women’s rights held in the United States  
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Declaration of Sentiments   document that detailed beliefs about social injustice toward women (used the Declaration of Independence as its basis); detailed 18 ways that women were discriminated against  
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Abolitionist Movement   worked to end slavery  
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William Lloyd Garrison   started anti-slavery newspaper "The Liberator" and founded the American Anti-Slavery Society  
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Frederick Douglass   escaped slave who learned how to read and write; one of the most important African American leaders; articulate speaker in the Abolitionist Movement  
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Sojourner Truth   former slave who fought for abolition and the rights of women; (famous speech – "Ain’t I a Women?")  
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Harriet Tubman   led slaves to safety through the Underground Railroad; known as "Moses;" no one was ever able to identify who she was  
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Underground Railroad   not an actual railroad and not underground; it was a network of people who arranged transportation and hiding places for escaped slaves  
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