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CH 14 textbook vocab
Question | Answer |
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Abolitionist | a person who strongly favors doing away with slavery |
Suffrage | the right to vote |
Temperance | the use of little or no alcoholic drink |
Transcendentalist | an group of New England writers who stressed the relationship between human beings and nature, spiritual things over material things, and the importance of the individual conscience |
Utopia | community based on a vision of a perfect society sought by reformers |
Underground Railroad | a system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freesom in the North |
Revival | a series of meetings conducted by a preacher to arouse religious emotions |
Antebellum Era | the period before the Civil War (1800-1860) in which many different reform movements occurred. |
Second Great Awakening | A revival of religious faith in the early 1800’s where new spirit of reform lead to movements for women’s, workers, and slaves’ rights |