Reform Movements
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annaherman on January 4, 2011
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17 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Second Great Awakening | A movment of christan rivals; encouraged people to do good works to save their souls; the result was that more people became involved in helping others |
| Tracscendentalism | Belief that people could rise above the material thing in life and should depend on themselves instead of an outside authority. |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Book written about the treatment of slaves |
| Meantally ill | .............People were jailed with those who commited crimes |
| Dorthea Dix | Main reformer for prison and mental health reform |
| Horace Mann | first seceratry of education for massachusetts |
| Thomas Gallaudet | Founded a free school for the deaf in connecticut |
| Dr. Samuel Granigallte | Founded the perkins institute of massachusetts for the blind |
| Horace Mann | Lengthened the school year to to 6 months, double teachers sallarys and founded a school for training teachers |
| Compulsory | Required attendance |
| Cady, Anthony and Mott | Famous woman in the womans movment |
| Elizabeth Bladwell | First woman to recieve a medical degree |
| Seneca Falls Convetion | Wrote the decleration of sentinment |
| Derlin College | First co educational college |
| 19 | This amdenment gave woman the right to vote |
| 18 | Prohibiton of temperance |
| Archibald Murphey | very detailed plans of reofrm for nc |
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