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Second Great Awakening | stressed free will (individuals could choose to save their own soals by choosing their own actions) |
Charles Grandison Finney | tought that individual salvation (free will) was the first step to improving society |
Dorothea Dix | worked to improve conditions for the mentally ill and for those in jail |
Horace Mann | wanted better schools with educated teachers and more funding |
Prudence Crandall | created an African-American school for girls |
Thomas Gallaudet | school for the deaf |
Samuel Gridley Howe | director of 1st school for the blind |
Underground Railroad | a network of abolitionists who secretly helped slaves reach freedom |
social reform | an organized attempt to fix society's ills |
predestination | a belief that stresses that God determines in advance who gets into heaven |
temperance movement | a campaign against alcohol |
American Colonization Society | proposed an end to slavery by setting up an independent colony in Africa (Liberia) |
Frederick Douglass | born a slave, escaped and published an antislavery newspaper the NORTH STAR |
Angelina & Sarah Grimke | sisters and abolitionists who moved to the north to speak out on slavery |
Harriet Tubman | escaped slave who led others to freedom on the underground railroad |
abolitionist | wanted an end to slavery immediately |
Quakers | believe it is a sin for one human to own another |
How The North Felt About Abolition | some ok, others fearful about lost jobs, textile owners worried where cotton will come from |
How The South Felt About Abolition | NO!! Economy depends on slaves in the fields, they treat slaves better than North treats immigrants |
How Women Were Discriminated Against in the Early 1800s | no speaking out; not allowed to vote; could not hold office; property goes to husband; women could get hit; wages went to husband |
Seneca Falls Convention | Women's Rights Movement for equality in church, education, work and vote |
Emma Willard | opened a high school for girls in NY that taught math and physics |
Mary Lyon | opened Mount Holyoke Female Seminary |
How the women's rights movement was a long-term effect of antislavery movement | women were speaking out against antislavery and realized they did not have equal rights either; Education- in order to be a leader you need knowledge |
Susan B. Anthony | tireless speaker for the women's rights movement |
Hudson River School | Artists from here painted landscapes of NY state |
Washington Irving | first US author who enjoyed fame in Europe |
Sojourner Truth | traveled speaking out on slavery and supported women's rights |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Essayist who stressed the importance of the individual, self-reliance and character |