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Culture and Reform Vocabulary
Reform
• To amend or improve by change of form or removal of faults or abuses
Culture
• The beliefs, customs, arts, etc. of a particular society, groups, place, or time
Suffrage
• The right to vote
Abolition/Abolitionists
• Movement fighting to make slavery illegal
• People fighting for the end of slavery
Temperance
• Movement to make alcohol illegal
Convention
• A large meeting of people who share a common interest
Underground Railroad
• A network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved African Americans in effort to reach free states and/or Canada
Transcendentalists
• People who were supported an intellectual movement that began as a response to the 2nd Great Awakening (religious movement)
• Promoted individualism, self-reliance, freedom from society, and emphasized emotions
Civil Disobedience
• The refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest