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Reform
To change for the better
Second Great Awakening
When many Americans recommitted to Christianity (early 1800s) / inspired reform movements
Dorothea Dix
Helped improve conditions for the mentally ill
Prison Reform
Focused on rehabilitating criminals, improving conditions in prisons
Temperance Movement
Movement to ban alcohol / reduce alcohol abuse
Horace Mann
Father of the Public School System / worked to expand access to education
Abolitionist Movement
Movement to end slavery
William Lloyd Garrison
Abolitionist who published anti-slavery newspaper "The Liberator"
Frederick Douglass
Escaped slave and abolitionist writer / published newspaper "The North Star"
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Abolitionist, wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Uncle Tom's CabinNovel that portrayed slavery as brutal / influential in abolitionist movementSojourner TruthFormer slave who became an abolitionist and women's rights activistUnderground RailroadSeries of paths / hiding places that slaves could use to escape to the northHarriet TubmanFormer slave who returned to lead other slaves to freedom on the Underground RailroadTranscendentalismMovement that emphasized self-reliance, listening to your conscience, and natureRalph Waldo EmersonFounder of transcendentalismHenry David ThoreauTranscendentalist who wrote "Civil Disobedience" and "Walden" (lived in the woods)Civil DisobediencePeacefully refusing to obey a law you consider unjust (Thoreau)Susan B. AnthonyKey leader of woman suffrage movementElizabeth Cady StantonWomen's rights leader, organized Seneca Falls ConventionSeneca Falls ConventionFirst national women's rights convention (1848) at which the Declaration of Sentiments was writtenDeclaration of SentimentsDemanded equal rights / voting rights for women