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Chapter 14 Section 1, 2,& 3
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7th Grade
05/15/2012

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temperance
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This move ment called for drinking little or no alcohol
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Herman Melville
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wrote "Moby Dick," the epic of a whaling captain
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Underground Railroad
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the network of escape routes out of the South for enslaved people
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William Lloyd Garrison
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first white abolitionist to call for the immediate and complete emancipation of enslaved people
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Ashmun Institute
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was the first College for African Americans
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Second Great Awakening
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was the wave of religious fervor in the 1800s
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Harriet Tubman
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was the most famous Underground Railroad conductor
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Transcendentalist
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people who stressed the relationship between humans and nature and the importance of the individual conscience
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Horace Mann
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became head of education in Massachusetts in 1837
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Wyoming
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was the first state to grant women the rights to vote
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Washington Irving
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writer who wrote "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
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Women's Rights Movement
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was formed by women fighting to end slavery and recognized their own badge
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Elizabeth Blackwell
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foinded the New York Infirmary for women and children
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Oberline College of Ohio
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was the first college in the United States to admit women and African Americans
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Dorothea Dix
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was a schoolteacher who helped reform attitudes towards mentally ill
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Frederick Douglas
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famous African American abolitionist speaker and writer that escaped from slavery as a runaway
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suffrage
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is the right to vote
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Wrote about the injustice of slavery
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Emily Dickinson
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wrote seemingly simple, deeply personal poems
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abolitionist
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person who strongly favors doing away with slavey
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utopia
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a community based on a visin of a perfect society
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anti slavery movement
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was the most pressing social issue for reformers by 1830
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Indiana
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Was the first state to allow women to divorce their husband if they had Ana alcohol problem
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Lucreita Mott
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a Quaker woman who gave lectures calling for temperance peace, workers rights, & abolition
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Freedom's Journal
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was the country's first American newspaper and was restarted by Samuel Colin's & John Busswurn
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