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An Age of Reform

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social reform   organized attempts to improve conditions of life  
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predestination   idea that God decided the fate of a person's soul even before birth  
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Charles Finney   famous preacher  
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revival   huge outdoor religious meeting  
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Utopian communities   looked for a more perfect society  
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Temperance Movement   organized effort to end alcohol abuse  
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prohibition   total ban on sale and consumption of alcohol  
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Dorothea Dix   reform of prisons and care for mentally ill  
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Horace Mann   led education reform  
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public schools   tax supported schools  
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abolitionist   reformers who wanted to abolish or end slavery  
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William Lloyd Garrison   created the newspaper, The Liberator  
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Frederick Douglass   former slave; published the North Star  
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Harriet Tubman   conductor on the Underground Railroad  
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Sojourner Truth   Former slave who worked for women's rights  
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suffrage   right to vote  
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Transcendentalism   movement that sought to explore the relationship between humans and nature through emothions rather than reason  
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individualism   the unique importance of each individual  
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civil disobedience   the idea that peole should peacefully disobey unjust laws if their consciences demand it  
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Hudson River School   group of landscape artists  
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Henry David Thoreau   wrote Walden  
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton   Declaration of Sentiments author  
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Louisa May Alcott   Author of Little Women  
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