| A | B |
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| social reform | organized attempts to improve conditions of life |
| Second Great Awakening | Religious movement in the early 1800's emphasizing the doctrine of free will |
| predestination | the idea that God decided the fate of a person's soul even before birth |
| Charles Finney | Preacher during the Second Great Awakening that held revivals |
| revival | a huge outdoor religious meeting |
| Utopia | a book about a fictional ideal society |
| Robert Owen | founder of utopian community of New Harmony |
| 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 | worked to convince state legislatures to build new more sanitary and humane prisons |
| public schools | free schools supported by taxes |
| Horace Mann | leader of education reform in Massachusetts |
| Ashmun Institute | nation's first college for African American men |
