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| A renewal of religious faith in the 1790s and early 1800s. It taught that salvation was received through doing good works. This led people to help others. People began to take on the causes of social reform.
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| A campaign to stop the drinking of alcohol.
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| Treatment of criminals--how did reformers of the 1820s want to treat criminals? |
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| They thought they should be rehabilitated. |
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| Treatment of the mentally ill--how were persons with mental illness treated before the reform movement? |
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| They were treated like criminals. |
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| peacefully refusing to obey laws one considers unjust |
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| Worked to improve education and schools in America
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| worked to improve conditions for the mentally ill
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| the movement to end slavery
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| A former slave who wrote an autobiography about his experience as a slave. He escaped from slavery and taught himself to read and write. He became a moving abolitionist speaker.
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| A runaway slave who helped other slaves escape to the North
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| a Northern white who was an abolitionist and published an abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator |
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| worked to try to improve equal rights for women
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| believed in the philosophy of transcendentalism
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| leader of the largest slave revolt in Virginia
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| meeting that discussed women's rights
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| banned the discussion of abolition in Congress |
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| Secret system of escape routes that helped slaves run away to the North
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movement that stressed the importance of the spiritual world; it did NOT cause people to be more religious. It did:
1. urge people to follow their own conscience and not obey laws they considered unjust
2. valued peaceful protest, not violence
3. taught that people could find truth within themselves |
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| Symbols of the Underground Railroad |
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| Handshakes & nods
Houses with hitching posts
the North Star
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| Why Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law in 1850 |
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1. to discourage the success of the Underground Railroad
2. to control the growing number of slaves escaping from the South
3. to reward Northerners willing to turn in escaped slaves |
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| safe houses along the Underground Railroad |
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| people that led runaway slaves to freedom on the Underground Railway |
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| How the government responded to slavery |
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1. prevented the discussion of slavery from 1836-1844 in Congress (the Gag Rule)
2. banned the importation of slavery in the U.S. after 1807 |
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| Women's rights BEFORE reform |
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1. could not practice law
2. could not hold public office
3. could not vote |
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| What right did women's rights reformers achieve in the first half of the 19th century? (between 1800-1850) |
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| the right to attend college |
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| 1. separated the free states from the slave states
2. ran between Pennsylvania & Maryland
3. represented freedom to those on the Underground Railroad (they wanted to get north of it into free territory)
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| The goal of most abolitionists |
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| an immediate end to slavery--emancipation of all slaves |
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| Some of the first people to organize anti-slavery groups |
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| a moving abolitionist speaker; former slave; freed by the Quakers
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