| A | B |
|---|
| Outdoor Relief | system by which people could apply for money for food and shelter |
| Vendue System | town auctions of people who were poor; residents would receive money to provide food and shelter in exchange for work |
| Poor Farm | a place where paupers were sent to live and work to be "cured of bad habits" |
| temperance | moderation in drinking alcohol |
| predestination | belief that God determined life course |
| Utopian | ideal society |
| pauper | term used to describe poor person |
| asylum | place for treatment for mentally ill |
| elective franchise | suffrage; voting; representation |
| prohibition | total ban on sale and consumption of alcohol |
| Doctrine of Free Will | a person’s own actions determine salvation |
| abolition | movement to end slavery |
| apprentice | a person who works for another to learn a trade |
| Lucretia Mott | Quaker who worked in the anti-slavery movement |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | thought women were being taxed without representation |
| Sojourner Truth | former slave and abolitionist |
| Emma Willard | started the Troy Female Seminary- a school for girls |
| Mary Lyon | opened Mount Holyoke-the first college for women in U.S. |
| Margaret Fuller | journalist-spoke in public for pay when it was illegal |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | first woman to graduate from an American medical school |
| Maria Mitchell | astronomer; first professor hired at Vassar College |
| women's suffrage | the right of women to vote |
| Susan B. Anthony | co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association with Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| Declaration of Sentiments | presented at Seneca Falls Convention |
| goal of Seneca Falls | to give women representation/voting |
| women in 1800s | couldn't own property or keep wages |
| American Colonization Society | anti-slavery society that proposed slaves be freed gradually and transported to Liberia |
| northerners opposed to abolition | merchants; textile workers; textile factory owners |
| The Liberator | abolitionist newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison |
| The North Star | abolitionist newspaper by Frederick Douglass |
| John Quincy Adams | defended Amistad captives; proposed legislation banning slavery in any new state (defeated) |
| Underground Railroad | a network of people-black and white, northerners and southerners-who secretly helped slaves reach freedom |
| Charles Finney | leader of Second Great Awakening; believed revivals could reach sinners and reform them |
| Robert Owen | founded New Harmony; based on common ownership of property; residents were to raise their own food and manufacture their own |
| temperance movement | organized effort to end alcohol abuse and the problems created by |
| Dorothea Dix | Massachusetts school teacher who tried to improve conditions for mentally ill; |
| public schools | first required in Massachusetts; in other states, only children of wealthy could be educated; grew because people believed they were the only way to create future strong country with smart voters |
| Horace Mann | education reformer; believed education necessary for democracy; |
| Prudence Crandall | Quaker who opened CT school for African American girls |
| Second Great Awakening | belief that people's actions determined their salvation |
| prison reform | necessary because prisoners were mistreated and couldn't earn money to get out of debt |
| public school reform | intended to be available for all citizens, regardless of wealth or race |
