Key Terms And People
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Charles Finney
A important preacher , who held the first of many revivals in 1862
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Temperance movement
Organized effort to end alcohol abuse & the problems created
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Dorothea Dix
- American philanthropist & social reformer
- She helped change prison system nationwide
- Developed state hospitals for treatment of the mentally ill of imprisonment
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Horace Mann
- American educator
- Considered the father of American public education
- Leader of the school movement
William Lloyd Garrison
- American journalist & reformer
- Published famous antislavery newspaper
- Helped found the American Anti-slavery Society
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Frederick Douglass
- Abolitionist and writer
- Escaped slavery
- Became a leading African American spokesman
- Published a biography
Harriet Tubman
- American abolitionist
- Escaped slavery many times
- Helped many slaves escape through Underground Railroad
- Most famous conductor
- Known as the Moses
Sojourner Truth
- American evangelist & reformer
- Born enslaved but was later freed
- Became speaker for abolition and women's suffrage
Lucretia Mott
- American reformer
- Planned the Seneca Falls convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Woman suffrage leader
- Organised the Seneca Falls convention
Women's suffrage
The right of women to vote
Women's rights movement
organized effort to improve political, legal & economic status of women
Susan B Anthony
- American social reformer
- Active in the temperance, abolitionist, & woman's suffrage
- Co-organiser & president of NAtional Women's suffrage association
Transcendentalism
- Movement that sought to explore the relationship between humans and nature through emotions rather than through reason
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- American essayist & poet
- Supporter of transcendentalist philosophy of self-reliance
Individualism
Unique importance of each individual
Henry David Thoreau
- American writer
- Transcendentalist philosopher
- Studied nature
- Published a magazine article "Civil Disobedience"
Civil disobedience
- Idea that people should peacefully disobey unjust laws if their consciences demand it.
Herman Melville
- American writer
- Based his books on his own sailing experiences
- Famous for Moby-Dick
Nathaniel Hawthrone
- American writer
- Famous for many stories and books
- Recognised as one of the first authors to write in a unique American style.
Louisa May Alcott
- American novelist
- Her revised letters written as civil war nurse were published as Hospital Sketches
- She is famous for novel "little women"
