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Unit 9
Flash Cards
Question | Answer |
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Reform | Organized attempts to improve conditions of life. |
Second Great Awakening | A religious revival in the early 1800s that began in the NW and led to growth of reform movements. |
Charles Finney | Preacher in the Second Great Awakening that held religious revivals. |
Temperance | An organized effort to end alcohol abuse and the problems created by it. |
Prohibition | A total ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol. |
Suffrage | The right to vote. |
Horace Mann | Leader of education reform, stated the first Board of Education in Massachusetts. |
Seneca Falls Convention | Convention held in New York in 1848 to raise awareness for women's rights, wrote the Declaration of Sentiments. |
Susan B. Anthony | Leader in the women's suffrage movement after the Civil War; gave speeches and voted illegally. |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Organized and lead the Seneca Falls Convention. |
Lucretia Mott | Also organized and lead the Seneca Falls Convention. |
Sojourner Truth | Leader in the abolitionist and women's rights movement, former slave, have speeches like "Ain't I a women?". |
Declaration of Sentiments | Document written at the Seneca Falls Convention that listed injustices to women by men, modeled after the Declaration of Independence. |
Abolition | The movement to end slavery. |
Radical | Favoring extreme change. |
Abolitionists | Reformers who wanted to end slavery. |
Reform | An effect of the second great awakening. |
William Lloyd Garrison | Abolitionists that started an anti-slavery newspaper called the Liberator. |
Frederick Douglas | African American abolitionists that gave speeches, wrote and autobiography and an antislavery newspaper called the north star. |
Elihu Embree | Abolitionists from Tennessee that started an anti-slavery newspaper called The Emancipator. |
The Emancipator | Anti-Slavery newspaper established by Elihu Embree in Tennessee. |
Harriet Tubman | Famous conductor of the underground railroad. |
Underground Railroad | A series of escape routes that helped runaway slaves reach northern states or Canada. |
The Liberator | Name of the anti-slavery newspaper that William Lloyd Garrison published. |
The North Star | Anti-slavery newspaper that Fredrick Douglas published. |
Dorothea DIx | Massachusetts school teacher that worked for prison reform. |