Ch 13 Spirit of Reform

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What was the Second Great Awakening?

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a religious revival which led people to question social norms like slavery and women's inequality

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What was Horace Mann's goal in advocating for the 1839 opening of the nation's first normal school in Massachusetts?

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the training teachers

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What philosophy had an affect on literature and philosophy in the 1820s and is best reflected in Henry David Thoreau's writing such as Walden?

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Transcendentalism

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A form of protest made popular by Henry David Thoreau is called ______________________.

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civil disobedience

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Which reformer researched and gathered information about the treatment of prisoners and the mentally ill, and forced improvements to the justice systems across the US?

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Dorothea Dix

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A person who tried to end the practice of slavery was called a/an. . .

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Abolitionist

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Who was the white man who started publishing The Liberator in 1831 which was a newspaper that advocated and attracted people the cause of abolitionism?

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William Lloyd Garrison

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This book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe was a best seller and brought abolitionist ideas to the mainstream public increasing support for ending slavery in the South

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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How did many people react to antislavery newspapers and abolitionist speeches?

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burning building, violent riots and killing

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A series of safe houses leading from the South to the North for escaped slaves stay in as they traveled north to freedom was called the ___________________.

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Underground Railroad