| A | B |
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| social reform | an organized attempt to improve conditions of life |
| predestination | the idea that God decided the fate of a person's soul even before birth |
| temperance movement | an organized effort to end alcohol abuse and the problems created by it |
| prohibition | a total ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol |
| Dorothea Dix | a Massachusetts schoolteacher who took up the cause of prison reform |
| public schools | free schools supported by taxes |
| Horace Mann | Massachusetts man who took up the lead in education reform |
| abolitionists | reformers who wanted to abolish or end slavery |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Quaker abolitionist who started the anti-slavery newspaper the Liberator |
| Frederick Douglass | Escaped slave who became an important speaker against slavery and published the North Star |
| Harriet Tubman | escaped slave who became the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad |
| Sojourner Truth | Born in slavery she became an important voice in the abolitionist and women's rights movement |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Wrote the Declaration of Sentiments |
| women's suffrage | right of women to vote |
| women's rights movement | an organized effort to improve the political, legal, and economic status of women in American society |
| transcendentalism | a movement that sought to explore the relationship between humans and nature through emotions rather than through reason |
| individualism | the unique importance of each individual |
