Ch 13
Reform Movement
Terms
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- Reform
- make better; improve by removing faults
- disabilities
- functional limitations or an inability to perform a certain act like hear or walk
- abolition
- Movement to end slavery
- abolitionist
- a person who wanted to end slavery
- political rights
- Rights of political participation, such as the right to vote in local and national elections, held by citizens of a national community
- public office
- A job a person is elected to do.
- mental illness
- a condition that impairs a person's normal thinking, emotions or behavior
- criminals
- a person guilty of a crime
- asylum
- a hospital that cares for people with mental illnesses who cannot care for themselves
- labor
- productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
- Labor union
- an organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members
- transcendentalists
- included Whitman, Thoreau, Emerson - promoted self-reliance, transcending to truth, inner light/peace/spirit, being one with nature ,rejected traditional religion
- persecution
- the abuse of a person or group because of their beliefs or appearance
- Horace Mann
- United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859)
- Frederick Douglass
- former slave + abolitionist, stood up for his beliefs, fought for womens + blacks rights, runaway slave, newspaper-The North Star
- William Lloyd Garrison
- White Abolitionist - Early 1800s - published The Liberator
- Sojourner Truth
- former slave who became an abolitionist and women's rights activist
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- women's rights advocate who organized the seneca falls convention
- Dorthea Dix
- Worked extensively in prison reform and to create special places for the mentally ill
- Susan B. Anthony
- led the struggle to give women equal rights, including the right to vote.
- The North Star
- Newspaper printed by Frederick Douglass to promote the abolishment of slavery, and advocate for women's rights.
- The Liberator
- Abolitionist newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison