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Key Terms Ch.8

Published on Mar 25, 2016

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

SOCIAL REFORM

ORGANIZED ATTEMPTS TO IMPROVE CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

PREDESTINATION

IDEA THAT GOD DECIDED THE FATE OF A PERSON'S SOUL EVEN BEFORE BIRTH

CHARLES FINNEY

  • Most important of his generation of preachers
  • American Prebysterian minister and leader in the Second Great Awakening

REVIVAL

A BIG OUTDOOR RELIGIOUS MEETING
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TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT

ORGANIZED EFFORT TO END ALCOHOL

PROHIBITION

TOTAL BAN ON THR SALE AND CONSUMPTION OF ACOHOL
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DOROTHEA DIX

  • Was an American activist on behalf of that in indigent insane who thought a vigorous program of lobbying state legislators in the United States Congress created the first generation of American mental asylums
  • Helped change prison system nationwide
  • Developed in state hospitals of treatment for the mentally ill instead of imprisonment

PUBLIC SCHOOLS

FREE SCHOOLS SUPPORTED BY TAXES

HORACE MANN

  • Was an American politician and educational reformer.
  • Took the lead in education reform
  • Colleges for teacher

ABSOLITIONIST

REFORMERS WHO WANTED TO ABOLISH,OR END, SLAVERY
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WILLIAM LIOYD GARRISON

  • American journalist and reformer
  • Suffragist and social reformer
  • Founded an abolitionist newspaper name Liberator
  • Help found the American Anti-Slavery Society

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

  • American abolitionist and writer
  • He escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman
  • Founded the abolitionist newspaper The North Star.

HARRIET TUBMAN

  • Was an African American Abolitionist
  • Born into slavery
  • Tubman escaped and would return for family and friends
  • She saved at least 3,900 people and went back and forth 13 times to save as many people
  • Moses of her people
  • Most famous Underground Railroad conductor

SOJOURNER TRUTH

  • American evangelist and reformer
  • Speaker for volition and women's suffrage

LUCRETIA MOTT

  • Was an American Quaker
  • Allowed women to take public roles that other religions prohibited
  • Abolitionist, a women of rights activist, and a social reformer

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON

  • Was a Writer
  • An American Suffragist (a person advocating the extension of suffrage,especially to women.)
  • Leading figure of the early Women's right activist
  • Abolitionist
  • Organized Seneca Falls convention with Lucretia Mott

WOMENS SUFFRAGE

  • Also known as woman's right to vote and to stand for electoral office

WOMEN'S RIGHT MOVEMENT

  • WAS AN ORGANIZED EFFORT TO IMPROVE THE POLTICAL,LEGAL AND ECONOMIC STATUS OF

SUSAN B ANTHONY

  • Was an American social reformer and feminist
  • Who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement

TRANSCENDENTALISM

WAS A MOVEMENT THAT SOUGHT TO EXPLORE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMANS AND NATURE

THROUGH EMOTIONS RATHER THAN THROUGH REASON

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

  • An American essayist,lecturer and poet
  • Who led the transcendentalist movement
  • Was seen as a champion of individualism

INDIVIDUALISM

THE UNIQUE IMPORTANCE OF EACH INDIVIDUAL

HENERY DAVID THOREA

  • American author, poet, philosopher abolitionist naturalist tax resisters
  • Leading Transcendentalist

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

THE IDEA THAT PEOPLE SHOULD PEACEFULLY DISOBEY UNJUSTLAWS IF THEIR CONSCIENCE DEMAND

HERMAN MELVILLE

BEGAN TO CHANGE THE TONE OF AMERICAN LITERATURE WITH NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

NATHANIEL HASTHORNE

  • American novelist and short story writer

LOUIS MAY ALCOTT

  • Was a teacher that believe children should enjoy learning
  • Novelist