Chapter 15 Key Terms and People
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Social Reform | An organized attempt to improve what is unjust or imperfect in society. |
| Debtor | Person who cannot pay money he or she owes. |
| Temperance Movement | Campaign aganist alcohol consumption |
| Abolitionist | Person who wanted to end slavery completely in the United States. |
| Womens Rights Movement | Organized campaign to win property, education and other rights for women. |
| Transcendentalist | Member of the small, influential group of New England writers and thinkers who believed that the most important truths in life transcened, or went beyond, human reason. |
| Civil Disobedience | Idea that people have a right to disobey laws they consider to be unjust if their consciences demand it. |
| Dorothea Dix | A boston school teacher who worked for prison reform to help criminals and the mentally ill. |
| Horace Mann | The head of the Massachusetts Board of Education who worked for the improvement of public education. |
| Frederick Douglass | A well-known African American abolitionist who was born into slavery but escaped; published an anti-slavery newspaper, the North Star. |
| William Lloyd Garrison | An outspoken white abolitionist who wanted slavery ended immediately; he began the influential antislavery newspaper, The Liberator. |
| Angelina & Sarah Grimke | Daughters of a South Carolina slaveholder who moved to the North to work for abolition and later for woman's rights. |
| Harriet Tubman | An important conductor of the Underground Railroad who had escaped slavey herself; some called her "Black Moses". |
| Sojourner Truth | A former slave who spoke out to fight slavery and women's rights;known for her captivating speaking ability. |
| Lucretia Mott | A Quaker and influential abolitionist who worked for women's rights; helped to organize the Seneca Falls Convention. |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | An influential abolitionist who worked for women's rights, helping to organize the Seneca Falls Convention and later partnering with Susan B. Anthony |
| Susan B. Anthony | A leader in the women's rights movement who was a tireless speaker. |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | The first women in the United States to earn a medical degree; helped found the nation's first medical school for women. |
| Henry David Thoreau | A transcendentalist writer (well known book=Walden) who argued in favor of civil disobedience. |
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