Vocabulary
utopia - community based on a vision of a perfect society sought by reformers
revival - a series of meetings conducted by a preacher to arouse religious emotions temperance - the use of little or no achoholic drink normal school - a two-year school for training high school graduates as teachers transcendentalist - any of a group of New England writers who stressed the relationship between human beings and nature, spiritual things over material things, and the importance of the individual conscience |
abolitionist - a person who strongly favors doing away with slavery
Underground Railroad - a system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North suffrage - the right to vote coeducation - the teaching of male and female students together |