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Unit 9 study stack
Question | Answer |
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reform | organized attempts to improve the conditions of life |
reform | an effect of the second great awakening |
second great awakening | a religious revival in the early 1800s that began in the northern US and led to growth of reform movements |
charles finney | preacher in the secound great aweakening that held religious revivals |
temperance | an organized effort to end alcohol abuse and tht problems created by it |
prohibition | a total ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol |
suffrage | the right to vote |
dorothea dix | massachusetts shcool teacher that workedfor prison reform |
horace mann | leader of the educatioin reform started the first board of education in massachusetts |
seneca falls convention | convention held in 1848 to raise awareness for womens rights wrote the deceleration 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 |
Sojourner truth | leader in the abolitionist and women's right movement, former slave , gave speaches "like ain't i a women" |
lucretia mott | organized and lead the seneca falls convention |
decleration of sediments | document written at the seneca falls convention that listed injustices to women by men, modeled after the decleration of independence |
abolition | the movement to end slavery |
radcial | favoring extreme change |
abolotionists | reformers who wanted to end slavery |
william loyd garrison | abolitionist that started an anti-slavery newspaper called the north star |
frederick douglass | african american abolitionist that gave speeches wrote an auto biography and an anti-slavery newspaper called the north star |
elihu embree | abolitionist from tennessee that started an anti-slavery newspaper called the emancipator |
the emancipator | anti-slavery newspaper estabilished 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 loyd garrison published |
The north star | the name of the anti-slavery newspaper fredrick dougless published |