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| the head of the board of education of Massachusetts who was part of the movement for better education |
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| What did Horace Mann say was the "great equalizer" of America? |
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| a reformer from Boston who tried to improve society's care for the mentally ill and who's efforts helped create 32 new hospitals |
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| an abolitionist speaker who spoke of her experiences in slavery |
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| an abolitionist speaker who spoke of his experiences in slavery and published an antislavery newspaper |
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| a conductor of the Underground Railroad who made nineteen trips to help slaves escape to the North |
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| a series of escape routes from the South to the North that slaves traveled by foot |
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| was in the abolition movement and the movement for women's rights; one of the people who held the Seneca Falls Convention |
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| was held to discuss women's rights and was where the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions was written |
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| the movement to end slavery |
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| a campaign to stop the drinking of alcohol |
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| Why did women support the temperance movement? |
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| Workers spent their wages on alcohol and often left their families with little or no money to live on. |
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| Who were the main people responsible for the reform movement? |
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| Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions |
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| written to demand certain rights for women |
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| Name the first seven Presidents of the United States. |
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| 1. George Washington
2. John Adams
3. Thomas Jefferson
4. James Madison
5. James Monroe
6. John Quincy Adams
7. Andrew Jackson |
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| a New England writer who urged Americans to cast off European influences and develop their own beliefs |
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| a poet who wrote about God, nature, love, and death |
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| a philosophy that taught that the spiritual world is more important than the physical world and that people can find truth within themselves through feeling and intuition |
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| Some push factors that caused emigrants to leave their countries were... |
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| Population growth, agricultural changes, crop failures, the Industrial Revolution, religious and political turmoil |
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| Some pull factors that attracted immigrants to America were... |
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| freedom, economic opportunity, abundant land |
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| Emerson's student who believed in civil disobedience |
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| peacefully refusing to obey laws |
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| What is the connection between nullification and civil disobedience? |
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| Nullification was the belief that states could cancel laws within that state that they felt were unconstitutional. Civil disobedience is the belief that people shouldn't have to obey laws that they feel are morally wrong. |
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| the right for women to vote |
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| What was the significance of the Second Great Awakening? |
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| It was the renewal of religious faith that appealed to abolitionists and slaves who wanted whites and blacks to be equal. |
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| What was the significance of the following dates: 1607, 1776, 1787, and 1803? |
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| 1607 - Founding of Jamestown
1776 - Declaration of Independence
1787 - Constitutional Convention
1803 - Louisiana Purchase |
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