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Mr Buck ch 8
An Age of Reform
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History
8th Grade
03/19/2009

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Frederick Douglas
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an abolitionist who was an ex-slave
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temperance movement
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movement to reduce the amount of alcohol consumed
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Suffrage
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the right of women to vote
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Dorthea Dix
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crusader for the reform of institutions for the mentally ill
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abolition
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Someone who wants to abolish slavery.
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Henry David Thoreau
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a writer who urged people to live simply
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transcedentalism
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An early 19 th century American philosophy, lead by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It explored a relationship between nature and humans through emotions.
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Susan B Anthony
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a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States.
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In the early 1800s who could not hold political office
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women
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What led to a wave of reform movements during the 1800s in the US?
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the belief that people could improve themselves and society
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What person believed that public education is essential for democracy to work
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Horace Mann
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Why were some northern workers against abolition?
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they feared former slaves would take their jobs
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if you believe in free will you believe that
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people can make their lives and society better
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A woman in the mid-1800s could ______________
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recieve a college education
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"Women should have the same educational opportunities as men" would have been something someone in the _______________ said. 
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woman's rights movement
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Henry David Thoreau is famous for writing
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Walden
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In the mid-1800s where would you find the most public elementary schools
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northeastern states
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the American Colonization Society was similar too __________________________
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the Underground Railroad
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how did the anti-slavery movement grow chronologically?
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persuade state govts to make it illegal

Colonization movement

writing anti-slavery articles

antislavery rallies

antislavery petitions

Underground Railroad

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Describe the woman's rights movement of the 1800s.
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developed from antislavery movement

women wanted full equality

New York passed a law protecting womans property rights in 1860

women were allowed better, higher education

new careers opened up

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