Chapter 12 Word Scramble
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| Term or name | Definition |
| social reform | organized attempts to improve conditions of life |
| predestination | idea that God decided the fate of a person's soul even before birth |
| Charles Finney | famous preacher |
| revival | huge outdoor religious meeting |
| Utopian communities | looked for a more perfect society |
| Temperance Movement | organized effort to end alcohol abuse |
| prohibition | total ban on sale and consumption of alcohol |
| Dorothea Dix | reform of prisons and care for mentally ill |
| Horace Mann | led education reform |
| public schools | tax supported schools |
| abolitionist | reformers who wanted to abolish or end slavery |
| William Lloyd Garrison | created the newspaper, The Liberator |
| Frederick Douglass | former slave; published the North Star |
| Harriet Tubman | conductor on the Underground Railroad |
| Sojourner Truth | Former slave who worked for women's rights |
| suffrage | right to vote |
| Transcendentalism | movement that sought to explore the relationship between humans and nature through emothions rather than reason |
| individualism | the unique importance of each individual |
| civil disobedience | the idea that peole should peacefully disobey unjust laws if their consciences demand it |
| Hudson River School | group of landscape artists |
| Henry David Thoreau | wrote Walden |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Declaration of Sentiments author |
| Louisa May Alcott | Author of Little Women |
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