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30 Cards in this Set
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Utopia |
community based on a vision of a perfect society |
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Second Great Awakening |
A wave of religious fervor in the early 1800's that inspired people to become involved in missionary work, social reform movements and increased church membership. |
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Revival |
A religious frontier camp meeting |
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Lyman Beecher |
Connecticut minister and crusader against the use of alcohol |
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temperance |
drinking little or no alcohol |
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temperance movement |
movement dedicated to banning use of manufacture and sale of alcohol and to educating public about danger of alcohol. In 1851, Maine passed law banning alcohol. |
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Horace Mann |
Lawyer and leader of educational reformer that became the head of the Massachusetts Board of Education in 1837. He lengthened the school year to 6 months, made improvements in curriculum, doubled teacher salaries, developed better training for teachers. |
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Normal school |
a school for training high school graduates as teachers. |
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Thomas Gallaudet |
developed method to educate people who were hearing impaired. He opened the Hartford school for the Deaf in Connecticut in 1817. |
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Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe |
Advanced the cause of those who were visuallly impaired. He developed books with large raised letters that people with sight impairments could read with their fingers. He headed the Perkins Institute, a school for the blind in Boston. |
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Dorothea Dix |
Schoolteacher that advocated for prisoners and the mentally ill. |
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Transcendentalists |
Stressed the relationship between humans and nature as well as the importance of the individual conscience. |
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civil disobedience |
refusing to obey laws he felt were unjust |
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abolitionists |
members of the growing band of reformers who worked to abolish or end slavery |
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American Colonization Society |
formed in 1816 by a group of white Virginians to free enslaved workers by buying them from slaveholders and sending them abroad to start new lives. |
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William Lloyd Garrison |
Abolitionist, Founder of the newspaper The Liberator. Called for immediate and complete emancipation of enslaved people. Started the New England Antislavery Society in 1832 and the American Antislavery Society in 1833 |
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The Grimke Sisters |
Sarah and Angelina, born in South Carolina to a wealthy slave holding family, were among the first women who spoke out publicly against slavery. |
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David Walker |
A free black man from Boston wrote an article encouraging african Americans to rebel and overthrow slavery by force |
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Frederick Douglass |
Most well known African American abolitionist, taught himself to read and write, escaped slavery. Edited antislavery newspaper, The North Star. |
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Sojourner Truth |
Born a slave named Isabella Baumfree, escaped slavery in 1826. Changed her name to Sojourner Truth. She worked in the movement for abolitionism and for women's rights. |
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Underground Railroad |
A network of escape routes from the South to the North |
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Elijah Lovejoy |
Editor of a abolitionist newspaper in Illinois. Shot and killed by an angry white mob when his office was set on fire. |
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Lucretia Mott |
Woman reformer and Quaker, that worked for Abolition, women's rights. Gave lectures in Phildelphia calling for temperance, peace, worker's rights and abolition. |
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
Womens reformer and abolitionist that worked with Lucretia Mott |
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Seneca Falls, New York |
Site of the first Women's Right convention. Issued a Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions modeled on the Declaration of Independence. Most controversial issue of the convention involved Suffrage. |
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Suffrage |
the right to vote |
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Susan B. Anthony |
Daughter of Quaker abolitionist, worked for women's rights and temperance, equal pay, college training for girls and coeducation. Organized the Daughters of Temperance |
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Coeducation |
the teaching of boys and girls together |
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Mary Lyon |
Established Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in Massachussets in 1837. |
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Elizabeth Blackwell |
First female graduate of a Medical School |
