Key Terms and People
author: Jerelle
Second Great Awakening - a period of religious evangelism that began in the 1790s and became widespread in the United States by the 1830s
Charles Grandison Finney - a leader of the Second Great Awakening; he held revivals, emotional prayer meetings that lasted for days
Lyman Beecher - a Boston minister that was against the revivals Great Awakening ministers held; served as president of the Lane Theological Seminary and supported female higher education
temperance movement - a social reform effort begun in the mid-1800s to encourage people to drink less alcohol
Dorothea Dix - American philanthropist and social
reformer, she helped change the prison system nationwide by advocating the development of state hospitals for treatment for the mentally ill instead of imprisonment.
common-school movement - a social reform effort that began in the mid-1800s and promoted the idea of having all children educated in a common place regardless of social class or background
Horace Mann - American educator, he is considered the father of American public education. He was a leader of the common-school movement, advocating education for all children.
Catharine Beecher - American educator and the daughter of Lyman Beecher, she promoted education for women in such writings as “An Essay on the Education of Female Teachers.” She founded the first all-female academy.
Thomas Gallaudet - American educator, he studied techniques for instructing hearing impaired people and established the first American school for the hearing impaired.
Second Great Awakening - a period of religious evangelism that began in the 1790s and became widespread in the United States by the 1830s
Charles Grandison Finney - a leader of the Second Great Awakening; he held revivals, emotional prayer meetings that lasted for days
Lyman Beecher - a Boston minister that was against the revivals Great Awakening ministers held; served as president of the Lane Theological Seminary and supported female higher education
temperance movement - a social reform effort begun in the mid-1800s to encourage people to drink less alcohol
Dorothea Dix - American philanthropist and social
reformer, she helped change the prison system nationwide by advocating the development of state hospitals for treatment for the mentally ill instead of imprisonment.
common-school movement - a social reform effort that began in the mid-1800s and promoted the idea of having all children educated in a common place regardless of social class or background
Horace Mann - American educator, he is considered the father of American public education. He was a leader of the common-school movement, advocating education for all children.
Catharine Beecher - American educator and the daughter of Lyman Beecher, she promoted education for women in such writings as “An Essay on the Education of Female Teachers.” She founded the first all-female academy.
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